Skip to main content

Synergy Law

Supporting Government to become 'future ready', partnering with clients to achieve legally defensible outcomes.

By leaning into complex and challenging issues, we can find options and solutions to support legally defensible outcomes and provide confidence for the commonwealth.

Synergy Law is a Synergy Group integrated legal offering, specialising in Government law and legal advisory services. Synergy Law as a capability, and an added service line, enables Synergy Group to provide clients integrated end to end advisory services and solutions which are legally assured and defensible. Synergy Law also provides Synergy Group the additional capability to look at ways to ‘lean into’ future legal issues such as: cyber security, ICT and infrastructure security, emerging energy resources, climate law, supply chain management, data sharing and information law, to support Government operations becoming ‘future ready’.

Synergy Law not only provides an integrated legal service but added depth of experience through having worked in, and for, Government on complex legal, policy and program matters. We know our market, we know our clients, we understand what you need. We will lean in, work beside you, and help you achieve your outcomes.

Corporate and Commercial Law
Public Law

Meet the team

From start to finish we listen and seek to understand and deliver impact, together, in partnership.

How we think

With views on what matter and knowledge to share. We pride ourselves in collaborating. Get to know us better.
Filter by
Topics
Insight

Behind the Climate Curve - Will we get ahead of it?

Enterprise
Corporate interest in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) space is nothing new – it’s been well documented for over a decade now. Methods to embed corporate environmental responsibility and transparency are increasingly being built into company objects and directors’ duties. Both shareholders and the public demand broader and deeper reporting on corporate environmental decisions and their impact, pressing executives to mitigate the ecological and economic risks posed by climate change. Read More
Insight

Synergy Law: One Year Later

Synergy updates
Australia faces significant public policy challenges that require dynamic, bold and defensible solutions. Just over a year ago, Synergy Law was founded to practice law with the freedom and flexibility to challenge the norm. Today, the Synergy Law team has grown to include twenty curious, iterative, and bold people who have used their knowledge and skills to uplift the capability and capacity of the clients they have worked with. Read More
Insight

The Business of Law

Enterprise
Although the policies and programs of Budget 2022-23 will not be known until Tuesday night, the direction of the Government is well established. A combined $1.3 billion worth of spending cuts were promised during the election, with the PBO Report outlining that $500 million worth of savings would be found from cutting expenditure on external labour for hire and consultants. Given internal legal budgets will not be expanded, we must ask ourselves, how can we find uplift? Read More
Insight

Public Private Partnerships: Leaving things better than you found them

Enterprise
Public/Private Partnerships (PPPs) can be so much more than the traditional infrastructure projects we typically associate with that term. Now more than ever, strong partnerships between the Australian Public Service (APS) and the private sector are essential to enable the core capability and capacity to be uplifted across the public service – especially with the renewed focus from Government to bring work “back in-house” to the APS. Read More
Insight

Bold is the new Beautiful

Enterprise
As we approach Budget 2022/23, we are all aware of the fiscal challenge that faces the Commonwealth. To deliver on what was promised to the Australian people during the Election, the Commonwealth must find efficiencies in its programs and policies. Read More
Insight

Synergy Law & The Girls Leadership Network

Synergy updates
Synergy Group is passionate about and committed to giving back to our community. Our Synergy Law Team do this by partnering with organisations in our community to provide support by way of pro bono legal advice and services, but also getting involved in their core business activities.  Read More
Insight

Wet floor signs for soles, but not for souls

Enterprise
In the pursuit of the physical safety of employees, employers have fire wardens, first aid officers, regular testing of electrical equipment, and trusty “wet floor” signs (only if there’s a wet floor otherwise it forms a hazard). But are employers as diligent in their mitigation of risks when it comes to the psychosocial wellbeing of employees? Read More
Insight

Legal issues and opportunities to watch for in 2022: what have we learned?

Transformation
In 2020 we were hit by a global pandemic we did not see coming. Unprepared for what was to come, in 2021 we scrambled to keep essential services going. As 2022 started, ‘essential’ became redefined continually in an aim to provide economic confidence that we can secure, sustain, and grow services to our communities. Read More