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.’
