LaurenCrossman

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Senior Associate

Lauren guides employers through their complex employment and industrial relations challenges, and provides the support that HR, legal, and operations teams need.


More About Lauren

Employers look to Lauren for clear legal advice and support on all strategic workforce issues. Lauren has experience advising on employment contracts and enterprise bargaining, performance and disciplinary issues, managing ill and injured workers, terminations and redundancies, and engaging with unions and regulators.

Lauren empowers employers to navigate legal and strategic challenges during periods of disruption. She provides clarity on changes to the employment compliance framework and practical advice on strategic workforce restructuring. She assists employers with protecting key business assets in confidential information, intellectual property, and client relationships, including through enforcing restraints of trade. Lauren also works with clients on opportunities to contribute to legal reform and development, including preparing evidence and submissions for employers participating in Modern Award reviews.

When contested litigation is strategically advantageous or unavoidable, Lauren represents employers in high-stakes industrial and employment disputes. She has acted for clients in courts and tribunals in various states and territories in complex employment and industrial legal matters. Where dispute resolution is appropriate, she assists clients with negotiating sensible commercial outcomes.

Lauren has prior experience as a director of the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club, and is an avid and competitive sailor. She applies her boardroom experience and racing mentality to her professional work, balancing risk management with a strong focus on clients' overall commercial strategy and the tactics they can deploy to achieve that strategy.

Lauren works with employers across diverse industries and thrives off partnering with leading local and international employers to understand their strategic workforce objectives. Lauren is proud to work with Australia's leading employment, industrial relations, and work health and safety lawyers to assist clients in achieving those objectives.



Our Australian practice operates as Seyfarth Shaw Australia, an unincorporated legal practice. Legal services provided by Seyfarth Shaw Australia are provided only by the Australian legal practitioner partners and employees of Seyfarth Shaw Australia.

  • BBA, Macquarie University

    Honours

  • LLB, Macquarie University

    Honours

  • An Australian legal practitioner admitted in New South Wales

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