CLAIMS, DISPUTES & LITIGATION
Resolve claims & disputes with strategic negotiation, mediation & litigation
CLAIMS, DISPUTES & LITIGATION
Resolve claims & disputes with strategic negotiation, mediation & litigation
COMPLIANCE & RISK MANAGEMENT
Comply with regulation & reduce risk exposure to legal liability claims
COMPLIANCE & RISK MANAGEMENT
Comply with regulation & reduce risk exposure to legal liability claims
LEGAL SERVICES MANAGEMENT
Procure & manage legal services for better cost effective outcomes
LEGAL SERVICES MANAGEMENT
Procure & manage legal services for better cost effective outcomes
Claims, Disputes & Litigation
Resolve claims & disputes with strategic negotiation, mediation & litigation
Compliance & Risk Management
Comply with regulation & reduce risk exposure to legal liability claims
Legal Services Management
Procure & manage legal services for better cost effective outcomes
The Legal Practice of John Bushby
Delivering legal advice and representation, informed by over 20 years of practice in leading Melbourne law firms, acting for large corporate sector clients.
Delivering "procured" legal solutions, by helping clients find, retain, instruct, manage and support other lawyers and legal services providers. Delivering progressive legal project support to clients that lack time, resources or legal sector experience.
Meeting client needs and preferences with versatile boutique legal services, based on top-tier legal practice experience.
The legal practice of John Bushby
Delivering legal advice and representation, informed by over 20 years of practice in leading Melbourne law firms, acting for large corporate sector clients.
Delivering "procured" legal solutions, by helping clients find, retain, instruct, manage and support other lawyers and legal services providers. Delivering progressive legal project support to clients that lack time, resources or legal sector experience.
Meeting client needs and preferences with versatile boutique legal
services, based on top-tier legal practice experience.
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Claims, Disputes & Litigation
Claims, Disputes & Litigation
John assist clients to resolves claims and disputes with strategic negotiation, mediation & litigation. He has routinely conducted proceedings in Federal and State Supreme Courts, as well as in lower Courts and Tribunals, including VCAT. He is particularly experienced in avoiding litigation through the early stewardship of disputes and liability claims.
He has extensive experience advising and representing clients in large complex commercial disputes, over a wide range of issues and areas, including:
- banking, securities and insolvency
- major fraud & corporate misconduct
- corporate trustees & financial services
- corporate management and board disputes
- partnership and shareholder disputes
- professional services liability claims
- the building, property & construction sector
- consumer and industrial products liability
- major business interruption losses
- commercial contracts
- intellectual property
Compliance & Risk Management
Compliance & Risk Management
John helps clients meet regulatory and legal compliance obligations, both within and outside of the litigation arena. He also helps clients to minimise and manage legal liability through a range of contractual strategies and solutions.
He has advised corporate clients on regulatory compliance and liability risk exposure in the areas of consumer protection and trade practices (under the Competition and Consumer Act). He has also advised on regulatory compliance in the insurance and telecommunications sectors.
In the area of corporate governance, John has assisted the boards and senior management of public companies to meet and exceed their formal obligations.
His broader risk management support has included advising clients on:
- contractual transactions warranties & indemnities
- product & services sales & marketing contracts
- professional indemnity insurance contracts
- business interruption & product liability insurance contracts
- document & information retention & management
Legal Services Management
Legal Services Management
John helps clients to select, instruct and manage suitable lawyers on discrete legal projects, both non-litigious commercial and litigious. He also helps clients meet the day to day operational demands they face in working with lawyers. This support helps clients to achieve better and more cost effective outcomes from their lawyers. It is valued by clients that lack legal-sector experience, or simply lack the resources or time to manage lawyers. Alignc is the legal services management consulting practice of John Bushby.
Commercial projects
Examples of legal services procured and managed for commercial project clients, include:
- a haptic technology start-up, requiring lawyers to help protect & commercialise technology-based patents & related assets
- a financial sector technology business, requiring uniquely specialised legal services for a high-risk business strategy
- a product manufacturing business, using top tier law firms to act for it in a series of large and commercially sensitive transactions
- numerous clients of large law firms, requiring dedicated legal costs lawyers to review and advise on legal bills and charges
Litigious projects
Examples in the disputes and litigation area include:
- advising & supporting a property developer in multiple related Supreme Court proceedings, on the selection & management of lawyers and barristers, from pre-commencement through to the appeal stage
- advising & supporting an applicant in a complex long-running family law property dispute, on the selection & management of specialist lawyers, including for the trial of the proceeding
- strategic & operational support for a plaintiff using two law firms to recover $24 million losses in a fraudulently managed investment scheme
- managing a client's review and production of financially sensitive corporate records, made urgently discoverable by Court order
- procuring & managing non-lawyer providers, including forensic accountants & technology specialists
- advising on cost control & reduction strategies and tactics in a range of litigated disputes
- legal costs liability negotiations and and settlements.
"Front-end" support
At the time clients first engage new lawyers, Alignc provides important "front-end" support that helps clients achieve better transparency, accountability and value from their lawyers. This includes advising on, drafting and negotiating legal services & fee arrangements with their lawyers. It may also include helping clients to establish with their lawyers, clear legal services reporting and approval protocols, as well as lawyer performance metrics.
Project-based support
Alignc's support may resemble that of an "in-house" lawyer, however they are more typically employees that manage the entire legal portfolio of their employer. As an independent consultant, Alignc may be retained on a discrete and often "one-off" legal project basis.
Discreet support
On some projects, client's may prefer not disclose the involvement of Alignc to their lawyers or other stakeholders. John is well placed to deliver project guidance, support and mentoring to clients from "behind the scenes".
Professional Background
John was admitted to practice as a lawyer in Victoria in 1987. Until 2007 he largely worked in leading first-tier national law firms including Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst) and Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King Wood Mallesons). During this time, John routinely worked for many leading and well-known corporate sector and multinational clients, including ASX listed top 200 public companies.
Also during this time, John worked with many leading senior executive management and board-level client representatives, as well as their in-house counsel, and with many leading Australian lawyers and barristers. At Mallesons, he largely worked with a senior lawyer who is now an Appeal Court Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. John did articles under a senior lawyer who became the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania.
Since 2009 John has also worked as an independent lawyer and legal services consultant. In these roles, he meets client needs and preferences with a flexible and contemporary service outlook that more traditional law firms may not offer.
John's work frequently involves achieving client outcomes through collaborations and strong productive working relationships with other lawyers and law firms. Also with legal services sector participants, including barristers, legal technology providers, and accountants.
As well as holding legal academic lecturing and tutoring positions, John has been active in delivering topical legal-sector presentations and papers, and participating in legal profession associations, including two years as President of the National Product Liability Association.
Professional Background
Professional Background
John was admitted to practice as a lawyer in Victoria in 1987. Until 2007 he largely worked in leading first-tier national law firms including Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst) and Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King Wood Mallesons). During this time, John routinely worked for many leading and well-known corporate sector and multinational clients, including ASX listed top 200 public companies.
Also during this time, John worked with many leading senior executive management and board-level client representatives, as well as their in-house counsel, and with many leading Australian lawyers and barristers. At Mallesons, he largely worked with a senior lawyer who is now an Appeal Court Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. John did articles under a senior lawyer who became the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania.
Since 2009 John has also worked as an independent lawyer and legal services consultant. In these roles, he meets client needs and preferences with a flexible and contemporary service outlook that more traditional law firms may not offer.
John's work frequently involves achieving client outcomes through collaborations and strong productive working relationships with other lawyers and law firms. Also with legal services sector participants, including barristers, legal technology providers, and accountants.
As well as holding legal academic lecturing and tutoring positions, John has been active in delivering topical legal-sector presentations and papers, and participating in legal profession associations, including two years as President of the National Product Liability Association.
CONTACT
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Queens Street Chambers
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Align Legal - 2019