Intellectual Property Bar - SA
Having prospered throughout the GFC and with only positive signs for the future things should be bright for the South Australian IP market and its lawyers. Affordability, experience, and the country's most affable group of IP practitioners positions the continually developing South Australian intellectual property market well.
The state's IP market is well serviced by larger commercial firms. Within this environment two senior practitioners and one emerging star hold the greatest sway. Donaldson Walsh's Sandy Donaldson rightfully sits as the market's senior statesman on non-contentious matters with Minter Ellison's Josh Simons his heir apparent. Norman Waterhouse's Greg Tye leads the way on contentious matters but not without a host of competitors nipping at his heels.
South Australia is distinguished by a curious lack of the boutique IP/IT firms that present themselves in most other developed markets. The most logical conclusion for an absence of boutique firms is that the pricing advantages of a smaller operation are simply not available in a market where anything above $400 per hour pushes boundaries.
Amongst the larger firms expertise and reputations tends to be framed across contentious or non-contentious IP work. The leading commercial practices being:
1. Minter Ellison
2. Donaldson Walsh
3. Finlaysons
The leading contentious practices being:
1. Norman Waterhouse
2. Kelly & Co
3. Piper Alderman
Leading Senior Counsel
Leading
Ian Robertson SC – Commercial Chambers
Recommended
Malcolm Blue QC – Bar Chambers
Dick Whitington QC – Hanson Chambers
Leading Junior Counsel
Recommended
Natalie Charlesworth – Anthony Mason Chambers
Ben Doyle - Hanson Chambers
Sam Doyle – Jeffcott Chambers
Thomas Duggan – Edmund Barton Chambers
A further and more detailed list of leading intellectual property law firms can be fonud under each of our state based listings.
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