LaurenCrossman
Senior Associate
Employment and Industrial Relations Law
lcrossman@seyfarth.com
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.
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
Related Services
Related Regions
- Successfully secured orders for more than $2 million in compensation, penalties, and interest for a major logistics organisation in complex and high-stakes litigation against the CFMMEU in the Federal Court of Australia. This involved proving that the CFMMEU and two of its officials had organised unprotected industrial action, and the resulting damages.
- Providing prompt and practical HR and employment litigation support to operational managers and directors at a major Australian supermarket retailer, informed by a detailed understanding of the company’s ethos and operations.
- Supporting a defence services organisation preparing for industrial action by multiple unions, including successfully negotiating amendments to protected action ballot questions to provide greater clarity on the proposed forms of industrial action, securing orders for extended notice periods for industrial action, and securing withdrawals of deficient notices of industrial action.
- Supporting a multinational elastic interconnection services provider on the complex process of concurrently terminating several senior executives in its Australian, UK, and US offices, including negotiating jurisdiction-specific, commercially appropriate terms of settlement.
- Providing in-house support to an Australian media and broadcasting organisation as a seconded Employee Relations Counsel from September 2020 to February 2021, including day-to-day employment and enterprise agreement advice, contract and policy reviews, supporting misconduct investigations, and negotiating exit arrangements for employees based abroad.
- Building in-house ER/IR capabilities by delivering workplace training and presenting at industry conferences (including on workplace behaviour, investigations, industrial action, social media issues, and sexual harassment).
- Acting in urgent litigation and engaging in successful negotiations to restrain former key personnel.
- Providing prompt and practical support to operational managers with day-to-day employment issues.
- Supporting clients in various sectors to contribute to changes to Modern Awards.
- Negotiating commercial settlements in a wide range of general protections claims, unfair dismissal claims, anti-bullying claims and breach of contract claims, avoiding the time and expense of litigation and allowing clients to move forward following from disputes.
Related News & Insights
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Blog Post
May 29, 2023
The five red flags of wage non-compliance
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Media Mentions
Apr 14, 2022
Michael Tamvakologos and Lauren Crossman quoted in HR Daily, “What to consider before increasing pay transparency”
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Blog Post
Apr 12, 2022
Should pay secrecy clauses stay or go?
-
Blog Post
Dec 20, 2021
Preparing for the “Great Resignation” and remote employee departures
- Golden Key International Honour Society
- Co-Author, "The five red flags of wage non-compliance," Workplace Law & Strategy Blog, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (May 30, 2023)
- Co-Author, "Should pay secrecy clauses stay or go?" Workplace Law & Strategy Blog, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (April 12, 2022)
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Co-Author, "Can employers protect social media contacts?" Law Society Journal, The Law Society of New South Wales (December 2016)
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.
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
Related Services
Related Regions
- Successfully secured orders for more than $2 million in compensation, penalties, and interest for a major logistics organisation in complex and high-stakes litigation against the CFMMEU in the Federal Court of Australia. This involved proving that the CFMMEU and two of its officials had organised unprotected industrial action, and the resulting damages.
- Providing prompt and practical HR and employment litigation support to operational managers and directors at a major Australian supermarket retailer, informed by a detailed understanding of the company’s ethos and operations.
- Supporting a defence services organisation preparing for industrial action by multiple unions, including successfully negotiating amendments to protected action ballot questions to provide greater clarity on the proposed forms of industrial action, securing orders for extended notice periods for industrial action, and securing withdrawals of deficient notices of industrial action.
- Supporting a multinational elastic interconnection services provider on the complex process of concurrently terminating several senior executives in its Australian, UK, and US offices, including negotiating jurisdiction-specific, commercially appropriate terms of settlement.
- Providing in-house support to an Australian media and broadcasting organisation as a seconded Employee Relations Counsel from September 2020 to February 2021, including day-to-day employment and enterprise agreement advice, contract and policy reviews, supporting misconduct investigations, and negotiating exit arrangements for employees based abroad.
- Building in-house ER/IR capabilities by delivering workplace training and presenting at industry conferences (including on workplace behaviour, investigations, industrial action, social media issues, and sexual harassment).
- Acting in urgent litigation and engaging in successful negotiations to restrain former key personnel.
- Providing prompt and practical support to operational managers with day-to-day employment issues.
- Supporting clients in various sectors to contribute to changes to Modern Awards.
- Negotiating commercial settlements in a wide range of general protections claims, unfair dismissal claims, anti-bullying claims and breach of contract claims, avoiding the time and expense of litigation and allowing clients to move forward following from disputes.
Related News & Insights
-
Blog Post
May 29, 2023
The five red flags of wage non-compliance
-
Media Mentions
Apr 14, 2022
Michael Tamvakologos and Lauren Crossman quoted in HR Daily, “What to consider before increasing pay transparency”
-
Blog Post
Apr 12, 2022
Should pay secrecy clauses stay or go?
-
Blog Post
Dec 20, 2021
Preparing for the “Great Resignation” and remote employee departures
- Golden Key International Honour Society
- Co-Author, "The five red flags of wage non-compliance," Workplace Law & Strategy Blog, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (May 30, 2023)
- Co-Author, "Should pay secrecy clauses stay or go?" Workplace Law & Strategy Blog, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (April 12, 2022)
-
Co-Author, "Can employers protect social media contacts?" Law Society Journal, The Law Society of New South Wales (December 2016)