Lynch Meyer Lawyers

Our team has once again generously donated items to Catherine House Inc’s annual Christmas donation drive! 🎁 Catherine House is a wonderful charity that offers accommodation and support services for women sadly experiencing homelessness in Adelaide. From the team at Lynch Meyer Lawyers, we hope our donations help make this Christmas a little more special for the many women experiencing homelessness this festive season.

As we come to the end of another busy year, we take this opportunity to share our gratitude for the ongoing support from our clients, referrers, and our amazing team. From all of us at Lynch Meyer Lawyers, we wish you, your colleagues, family and friends a safe and happy Christmas, and best wishes for 2025. Please note our office will be closed from 11am on Friday 20 December, and will reopen on Monday 6 January 2025.

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From January 2025 “wage theft” will occur when an employer intentionally engages in conduct which results in a failure to pay an employee an amount due to them. Inadvertent or unintentional underpayments are not captured by these new laws. Laws and penalties already exist for unintentional underpayments. A breach of the wage theft laws will attract heavy penalties: • for body corporates, $7.825 million or 3 x the underpayment amount; and • for individuals, 10 years in prison, $1.56 million or 3 x the underpayment amount. To read more, please visit our website and read our latest Legal Update. https://lnkd.in/gxYtKdVT

Last Tuesday, Lynch Meyer Lawyers Partner, Charles Moran, and Associate, Huan Do attended the National Fire Industry Association of Australia (NFIA) final SA Members' Meeting for 2024 and celebrated their State Awards of Excellence. It was a fantastic night to celebrate this year's accomplishments, and to network with professionals within the industry. Congratulations to all the 2024 winners. We look forward to having further involvement with the NFIA in the new year.  

Amongst all the headline industrial relations changes over the past 12 months is a lesser known, but equally significant, change which employers should be aware of. As from 1 July 2024 workplace delegates can represent eligible employees at various times including during disciplinary processes, which includes during disciplinary meetings. Prior to 1 July 2024 a workplace delegate was not able to do this in the absence of a specific provision in an enterprise agreement. These changes were introduced as part of the closing loopholes amendments to the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (FW Act). To read more, please visit our website and read our latest Legal Update. https://lnkd.in/ggXiemG2

Our Special Counsel, Kyle Lawson was invited by the Honourable Kyam Maher MLC, Attorney-General, and the Honourable Zoe Bettison MP, Minister for Multicultural Affairs in the South Australian Malinauskas Labor Government, to attend a Reception with the Asian Australian Lawyers Association Inc (SA Branch) at the Parliament House on 26 November 2024. The Asian Australian Lawyers Association Inc. (AALA) is the national peak body for Asian Australian lawyers and others with an interest in Asia. Since its establishment, AALA has become a leading voice for cultural diversity in the legal profession, working with peak bodies and organisations to promote intersectional diversity in the law. As a senior member of the legal profession, Kyle was privileged to meet other members of the legal profession of Asian background and had a meaningful dialogue on cultural diversity with the Attorney-General, the Minister, the inaugural Branch President Jessica Teoh, and the National President Matt Floro. Kyle looks forward to work collaboratively with AALA in 2025.

This morning, we held our final Women in Business Breakfast for 2024. With women from a range of industries joining us for a morning of networking, Lynch Meyer Lawyers’ Commercial Partner, Evyenia Walton, and Associate, Jacinta Zheng, shared their valuable insights into the importance of Intellectual Property in business. The session was informative and engaging, and we look forward to hosting our next Women in Business Breakfast in 2025.

Some of the Lynch Meyer Lawyers team recently attended VAILO Adelaide 500 thanks to Shaw and Partners hosting us in the Red Bull Ampol Racing Team suite. This iconic Adelaide event was a great networking opportunity as we spent the day with Suzie Georgiou, and contacts from Asahi Beverages and Red Bull. Thank you, Shaw and Partners and Suzie Georgiou, for inviting us.

We are excited to welcome our clerks joining the Lynch Meyer Lawyers team for the summer. We are delighted to have them join the firm as they start their exciting career in law. Our clerkship program offers hands-on experience working in a leading commercial law firm, with our clerks being directly involved in real client work while being mentored by our senior lawyers. We look forward to seeing them develop their skills over the coming months!