Health Legal was established as a result of the health sector indicating it wanted a quality and competitively priced legal service that understood their environment and was able to focus on their unique needs.

The Health Legal team provides commercial, compliance, contracting, litigation and medico-legal advisory services.  We are located in Melbourne but provide services throughout Australia.

Latest News - Multi-Award Winners*                                   

Our staff have recently won significant client and peer nominated awards.  Both Natalie Franks and Claudia Hirst have recently appeared on the Best Lawyers list for Australia in the practice area of Health & Aged Care, with Natalie also receiving the award for Best Lawyers' 2012 Melbourne Health & Aged Care "Lawyer of the Year". 

In a separate award selection process, Natalie was selected as Australia's best healthcare and life sciences lawyer by the International Law Office Client Choice Awards.

Established in 2005, the ILO Client Choice Awards recognise those law firms and partners around the world that stand apart for the excellent client care they provide and the quality of their service.  The criteria for the awards focus on law firms' ability to add real value to their clients' business above and beyond the other players in the market.

The awards recognise the firms and individual partners that excel across the full spectrum of client service.  Firms and partners were assessed on the following criteria: quality of legal advice, value for money, commercial awareness, effective communication, billing transparency, tailored fee structure, response time, sharing of expertise and use of technology.