Dominic Fleeton is a partner in the firm's Labor, Employment, and Workplace Safety practice. He helps clients manage safety-related crises. This work goes beyond the provision of strict legal advice and includes managing internal and external stakeholders, ensuring that all relevant regulatory and internal obligations are complied with while always remaining focused on the minimising the client's legal risk exposure.
Dominic is an experienced employment, industrial relations and safety litigator and, in all cases, seeks to identify upfront the client's commercial and other goals and then looks for the most simple and effective options to achieve those goals. Dominic knows how to balance the robust pursuit and defence of claims and the management of clients' reputational outcomes.
Dominic was recognised as “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers in AustraliaTM for Occupational Health and Safety Law, Melbourne in 2022 and is a member of the team which was recognised as "Law Firm of the Year" for Occupational Health and Safety Law in Australia by Best LawyersTM 2024.
In The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024 clients noted that:
‘Dominic remains the go-to person for WHS advisory in Melbourne for our executive as well as functional teams. His ability to see and share strategic insight to help facilitate next steps for an organisation is strongly recognised within our teams.’
