WorkCover
Workers compensation and WorkCover matters, from disputed claims and liability questions through to complex, contested cases and their wider commercial impact on an organisation.
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Experience. Leadership. Solutions.
Clear thinking on complex workplace law.
Philip Duffy is a senior workplace law consultant in Melbourne with more than twenty years in WorkCover, OH&S and employment law. He works alongside law firms on advanced cases and mentors the next generation of workplace practitioners.
WorkCoverWorkers compensation
OH&SOccupational health & safety
EmploymentIndustrial relations
20+Years in
workplace law
workplace law
20+
Years' experience in workplace law
4
Connected areas: employment, IR, OH&S & workers compensation
2
Consulting roles: advanced cases & mentoring
Higher
Courts: County & Supreme Court trial experience
A trusted workplace law consultant
More about Philip
Two decades of workplace law, now working for other firms.
After many years as a partner in practice, Philip Duffy now works as an external consultant to law firms and advises employers directly on their most demanding workplace matters. His focus has always been the same: the constantly evolving areas of WorkCover, occupational health and safety, and general employment law.
He has built a strong reputation for navigating complex, high-stakes problems and delivering integrated recommendations that resolve them, drawing together employment, industrial relations, OH&S and workers compensation rather than treating each in isolation.
Considered counsel on complex matters
Integratedrecommendations, not isolated advice
Areas of expertise
A practice built around the modern workplace.
Philip's core strength is resolving workplace problems where employment, industrial relations, safety and compensation overlap. His practice concentrates on three connected areas.
Occupational Health & Safety
OH&S obligations, incident response, regulatory engagement and prosecutions. Practical, defensible guidance for employers operating in a demanding and closely watched safety environment.
Explore OH&SEmployment Law
General employment law and industrial relations: contracts, conduct and performance, terminations, disputes and the day-to-day issues that shape the relationship between employers and their people.
Explore employment lawAcross all three, Philip has represented many employers in trials before the County and Supreme Courts of Victoria.
Consultant & mentor to law firms
Two ways Philip works with a firm.
As a consultant, Philip brings his experience to a firm in two complementary ways: strengthening its people, and strengthening its hardest cases.
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Mentoring younger practitioners
Philip enables less experienced workplace-law staff to shadow him and learn directly from how a senior practitioner reads a matter, shapes a strategy and handles the moments that experience alone teaches. It is capability built into your team, not just an outcome delivered to it.
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Support on advanced cases
For the cases that call for genuine depth, Philip takes on the advanced workplace-law matters that benefit from his expertise, working with your team to bring integrated, courtroom-tested judgement to the problems that matter most.
Advanced case support
Common questions
Good to know.
Other law firms, in a consulting and leadership role, and employers who need senior advice on complex workplace matters. His focus is WorkCover, occupational health and safety, and employment law.
WorkCover and workers compensation, occupational health and safety, and general employment law, together with the industrial relations questions that run through them. His strength is handling them as one connected problem.
Yes. As well as consulting to law firms, Philip takes on advanced workplace matters for employers who need senior, integrated advice on a difficult issue.
Melbourne, Australia, working with law firms and employers across Victoria. The best place to start is a short conversation.
Complex workplace problems are rarely just legal problems. The work is to see the whole picture and deliver recommendations an organisation can actually act on.
Philip Duffy · Workplace Law Consultant
Discuss a matter with Philip.
Whether you are a law firm looking for senior support or an employer facing a difficult workplace issue, the first step is a straightforward conversation.