Ms Lauren Townsend > Thomson Geer > Melbourne, Australia > Lawyer Profile

Ms Lauren Townsend

+61 3 8080 3773 ltownsend@tglaw.com.au View profile View profile

Work Department

Employment, Workplace Relations and Safety

Position

Partner

Career

With over a decade of experience advising and acting for Australian and international employers in relation to the full range of Australian employment law issues across the employee lifecycle, Lauren is well regarded by her clients for being able to explain complex legal issues in a digestible manner and for her pragmatic and timely advice.

Lauren’s practice encompasses all aspects of employment law, industrial relations, work health and safety, discrimination law and workplace investigations. This includes employment/executive contracts, enterprise bargaining, industrial action and other industrial disputes, enterprise agreement and modern award compliance, management of ill and injured workers, management of employee misconduct and underperformance (including termination of employment), transfer of business, employee/contractor distinction, workplace bullying and employment related litigation.

Lauren’s legal expertise is complemented by her experience as an independent workplace investigator, having conducted external misconduct investigations for a range of private and public sector clients. For example, Lauren has conducted workplace investigations for a major public hospital in Melbourne, universities, Victorian Government departments, Victorian Government emergency services (police and ambulance), and the Australian Public Service.

Lauren regularly provides presentations and training to in house counsel and HR professionals.