The 2025 listing of leading Employee and Trade Union-focused NSW Employment Lawyers details solicitors practising within the areas of employment and industrial relations matters in the New South Wales legal market whose practice has a strong employee and/or trade union representation focus and who have been identified by the state’s employment law solicitors for their expertise and abilities in these areas.
Preeminent
Phil Hayward, Haywards Solicitors
Danny King, Danny King Legal
Mia Pantechis, Maurice Blackburn
Richard Pegg, Toomey Pegg
Leading
Luke Forsyth, Hall Payne
Joe Kennedy, Hall Payne
Recommended
Adrian Barwick, WilliamsonBarwick
Sonia Chandra, Danny King Legal
Petrine Costigan, Petrine Costigan Lawyers
Michael Doherty, Michael Doherty Legal
Nathan Keats, McNally Jones Staff
Chris McArdle, McArdle Legal
Kathryn Hayward, Haywards Solicitors
Aron Neilson, AEN Legal
Emma Pritchard, Marks Pritchard
Peter Punch, Carroll & O’Dea
Shana Schreier-Joffe, Keypoint Law
Nick Stevens, Stevens & Associates
Kevin Yee, Danny King Legal