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.

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.
Insight

Why 'Good Ideas' Need to Simmer - The FOI Deliberative Matter Exemption

Rethinking work
To deliberate or to disclose? That is also the question that has vexed Freedom of Information (FOI) decision-makers since the very first days of the Freedom of Information Act, 1982 (the FOI Act) and continues to confound us in 2024. For those uninitiated in the FOI world, ‘deliberative matter’ is a conditional exemption that seeks to protect the Commonwealth Government, its Ministers and Australian Public Service (APS) staff members’ ‘thinking space.’
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Insight

The Commonwealth’s Revised Procurement Rules – What does it mean for me?

Rethinking work
Those of us in the procurement and contract management space will be well aware that a new version of the Commonwealth Procurement Rules (CPRs) will take effect from 1 July 2024. Released just over a year after the latest CPR revamp, you might ask – why is another version of the CPRs necessary? The answer can be found in what is currently happening in both the public sector and private industry, along with a focus on protocols to mitigate and control for fraud and corruption.
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