Katherine accepts briefs in all areas of commercial and corporate law. She also accepts (and encourages) direct briefs in appropriate cases.

Before coming to the Bar, Katherine was an Associate at the Federal Court of Australia, first to the Honourable Justice Michelle Gordon in 2011, and then to the Honourable Justice John Middleton in 2012 and 2013. 

Prior to that Katherine was a solicitor at Arnold Bloch Leibler, in the firm’s Litigation department.

Since coming to the Bar, Katherine has been briefed to act for a range of regulators, government departments, companies and individuals.

Katherine has worked on cases in fora including the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria, the Supreme Court of Victoria and the Federal Court of Australia.  She has worked on a range of complex matters, involving banking and finance, bankruptcy, insolvency, taxation, intellectual property, health, civil penalties, class actions, professional negligence and corporations law. She has also worked on numerous regulatory and disciplinary matters (both advice and appearance work) involving entities such as the Medical Board of Australia, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the Australian Tax Office and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.  She is presently briefed in the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry to act for ANZ (led by Dr Matthew Collins QC and Ms Kate Williams SC).

Katherine has a Bachelor of Laws degree with First Class Honours and a Bachelor of Science degree with a Genetics major, both from the University of Melbourne.  Katherine is also a reporter for the Thomson Reuters Federal Law Reports and Federal Court Reports.  Since 2017, Katherine has been a member of the teaching staff at Monash University Law School (and has taught undergraduate, postgraduate (JD) and Masters classes).

Since 2017, Katherine has been the Co-chair of the Bar's Student Engagement Committee.

In October 2017, Katherine won the award for "Barrister of the Year" at the Lawyers' Weekly Women in Law Awards.

In 2018, Katherine was listed in Doyle's Guide as one of the "Leading Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution Junior Counsel".

In August 2018, Katherine won the award for "Barrister of the Year" at the Lawyers' Weekly Australian Law Awards.

Katherine read with Andrew Hanak.

Papers and presentations:

“In defence of the peak indebtedness rule – reflections on the Australian position post-Timberworld Ltd v Levin & Anor [2015] NZCA 111”, paper presented at a Commercial Bar Association CPD in September 2016 (copy available upon request).

"The Unsettling Case of the Non-Binding “Settlement”: When Are Parties Considered to Have Made a Binding and Enforceable Settlement Agreement? An examination of Masters v Cameron (1954) 91 CLR 353 and beyond", CPD session delivered to a number of law firms during 2017 and 2018 (available for presentation upon request).

"Ethical considerations affecting government litigants", paper presented at a Tax Bar Association CPD in March 2018 (copy available upon request).

"A Grubb-y Case Study: What is the status of protection for metadata under Australian privacy law following Privacy Commissioner v Telstra Corporation Ltd [2017] FCAFC 4?" (paper prepared for delivery at the Hong Kong International Law Conference, September 2018, as part of a panel seminar entitled "Is Privacy Dead? Uses and Misuses of Sensitive Data") (copy available upon request).