Directors and Management

Prior to establishing Balance Legal in 2008, Ken was a partner of Freehills for 8 years practising in the Banking and Projects section. He was also the leader of the Freehills’ national Native Title and Indigenous Heritage practice group. 

Ken has extensive experience in the mining, oil and gas, water and transport sectors.He has particular expertise in the development of major greenfields infrastructure projects, project structuring and strategy, land access and tenure acquisition, government relations and native title and indigenous heritage. 

E ken.jagger@balancelegal.com.au
M +61 0408 767 259

During his time in private practice Haaron worked predominantly in the area of banking and finance law. He has worked closely with clients in respect of their general corporate, acquisition and, in particular, project finance needs. Given Western Australia’s booming mining and resources sector, it is not surprising that Haaron’s private practice work focused within this industry and a broad resource law experience was attained.

Since joining Balance Legal, Haaron has undertaken secondments at Chevron, Rio Tinto and Macmahon Holdings.  At Macmahon Haaron gained considerable experience in construction law as well as furthering his resource law experience through exposure to mining contracts. At the lengthy Chevron secondment his responsibilities included negotiating and drafting procurement and services contracts, assisting with the preparation of Australian contract templates for purchase of goods and services and drafting internal documentation allowing secondment of project personnel across multiple jurisdictions.

Haaron has an interest in Corporate Governance having recently completed a Diploma in Applied Corporate Governance.

E haaron.bokhari@balancelegal.com.au
M +61 0422 447 190

Maree has over 16 years experience in the Human Resources and Industrial Relations field. This includes roles within the public and private sectors, 4 years as a senior HR Manager within the Wesfarmers Group and more recently operating her own Human Resources and Industrial Relations consultancy.

Maree specialises in Organisational Psychology and has considerable experience in recruitment and HR placements and the development and implementation of organisational change, training and development programs.

Rebecca has over 12 years experience as a workplace relations lawyer working at leading Australian law firms in Perth and Melbourne. She has acted for clients in industries including mining, oil and gas, utilities, transport, financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, and higher education. 

She has particular expertise in providing strategic advice and training to clients on the legal and practical implications of workplace change and reform, dealing with sale of businesses, outsourcing, pre and post-employment arrangements, contractual claims, industrial disputation, discrimination and harassment complaints, workplace investigations and privacy.

E rebecca.taseff@balancelegal.com.au

Lisa M Lombardi is licensed to practice in Queensland and in the US.  Prior to going in-house, she focused on water law and Indian law in the US, and native title and resource law in Australia.  For Golder Associates, where she worked for over eight years, she was General Counsel for all their offices in the Asia-pacific region (defined as Africa to the Philippines).  At Golder, she was responsible for governance, contracting and procurement, and legal and commercial risk management strategies in the firm’s dealings in resource, construction, and mining projects. 

For the past two years she has acted as sole legal counsel and Company Secretary for IQA and its related companies, which are financial services companies involved in the resources and energy sectors.

E lisa.lombardi@balancelegal.com.au
M +61 0417 940 813

Sandra is legally qualified and has over 20 years experience in human resources, information management and general management roles in leading law firms in Australia and Canada and as General Manager HR for an ASX top 200 company.   She has significant experience and expertise in mergers and divestments, change management, remuneration strategy, expatriate management and policy development.  In addition she understands the commercial and political realities of business and is recognised for the ability to provide pragmatic and practical advice to Boards and Executives.

E sandra.gibson@balancelegal.com.au

E michelle.daly@balancelegal.com.au

E leanne.smith@balancelegal.com.au

Helen is an experienced manager whose responsibilities include the recruitment, training and management of support staff, CPD compliance, payroll, management of Balance Legal’s accounts, IT system, building management and office coordination.   Helen has worked at both small and large law firms in both secretarial and administration roles prior to joining Balance Legal. Helen is presently on 12 months Maternity Leave commencing 31 December 2010.

E info@balancelegal.com.au

Lisa is an experienced office administrator.   Lisa has worked at both small and large law firms as a legal assistant, executive assistant and office manager prior to joining Balance Legal.

E lisa.hasson@balancelegal.com.au