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.
The Firm and Our Expertise
Hicksons is a respected medium-sized firm with 160 personnel, including 19 partners, seven consultants, 10 associates and more than 45 lawyers and paralegals, supported by more than 75 management and support staff.
The firm occupies offices on levels 31 and 32, 2 Park Street, Sydney, and has offices in Newcastle and Canberra.
Expertise
The firm’s 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.
Industries
The industries with which the firm has had particularly significant involvement include:
- Banking and finance
- Building and construction
- Education
- Food production and supply
- Government
- Insurance
- Manufacturing
- Professional services
- Property development
- Retail
- Technology
- Transport, trade and energy.
In resolving disputes, plaintiff firms recognise us as robust, well-prepared and fair. Courts know us as a firm solidly grounded in the law that acts sensibly by not engaging in costly procedures or unnecessary litigation, and by complying with court timetables.
The firm has developed a particularly strong reputation in insurance, workers compensation and commercial litigation. Our lawyers use alternative dispute resolution methods such as mediation and arbitration when appropriate.
We have a highly capable and, if necessary, aggressive team of litigators who are skilled in conciliation driven negotiations.
Technology Transactions Ltd
On 1 November 2001 Hicksons formed a close working association with Technology Transactions Ltd. Technology Transactions is a highly skilled intermediary firm working in the interface between science and commerce.
Hicksons and Technology Transactions Ltd worked closely together building foundations for our current commercial practice, with particular focus on biotechnology and other areas where the protection of intellectual property and the maximisation of commercial outcomes are critical. We hope to provide a truly one stop shop for clients seeking to maximise their opportunities throughout the technology sectors.
For more information about our history, click here .
For more information about our lawyers, click here .
For details of Hicksons office locations and contact details, click here .