The Firm and Our Expertise

Hicksons is a respected medium-sized firm with 160 personnel. The firm has 19 partners, seven consultants, 10 associates and more than 45 lawyers and paralegals, supported by more than 75 management and support staff.

The firm has offices at 2 Park Street, Sydney, and in Newcastle and Canberra.

Expertise

Our primary areas of expertise are:

• Commercial dispute resolution
• Corporate and commercial transactions
• Insurance (general, public and occupiers, product and professional indemnity)
• Lenders mortgage insurance
• Mortgage recovery
• Property and finance
• Transport trade and energy
• Workers compensation and dust diseases
• Workplace law (employment and occupational health and safety).

Each practice area has several specialty areas within it. We regularly field cross-practice teams (such as Workers Compensation and Workplace Law) who combine their expertise in different legal specialities to meet our clients’ legal needs and commercial objectives.

Totally Committed, Always Direct

At Hicksons, we are totally committed and always direct.

For our clients that means we are:

• up-front about communicating, in plain language, the solutions to your legal issues
• fearless in providing the advice you need
• expert in drafting plain English documentation which protects our clients’ interests, is commercially sound and legally robust
• cost-conscious in devising solutions and options
• passionate about representing your interests to achieve sound and expected results
• committed to continually investing our time to understand your business and its objectives, now and as they change, and
• completely reliable in doing what we say we will, when we said we would.

With our clients and our staff we are informal, co-operative and have an open style of working.

Clients have direct access to partners and our lawyers are service oriented, good communicators and always willing to go the extra mile. Our clients know that Hicksons lawyers are results oriented. We avoid duplicated effort, unnecessary litigation and over-servicing.

In a world where loyalty is rare, our approach has enabled relationships to be built and maintained. Many of our client relationships span over 20 years and one major insurer has engaged Hicksons for more than 40 years.