Meet The Team
Joseph Kelly, Principal
Our Principal, Joseph Kelly, has extensive experience in commercial litigation and workplace law, having advised employers and employees on all issues relating to industrial relations and employment law. Joseph has advised industry bodies, unions, employers and government and continues to run training and information seminars for legal practitioners.
Joseph is accredited as a specialist in Workplace Relations by the Law Institute of Victoria.
EXPERTISE
- Industrial advice & litigation
- Employment advice & litigation
- Occupational health & safety law
- Equal opportunity & anti-discrimination advice & litigation
- Intellectual Property
- Independent contractors advice & litigation
CAREER HISTORY
- Since 2011 Kelly Workplace Lawyers (Principal)
- 2005-2011 APESMA Lawyers (Managing Partner)
- 2002-2005 Garland Hawthorn Brahe, Solicitors
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS & ADMISSIONS
- 2003 Admitted Supreme Court of Victoria
- 2003 Admitted High Court of Australia
- 2001 Bachelor of Laws, LaTrobe University, Melbourne
- 1999 Bachelor of Arts (Hons), LaTrobe University, Melbourne
MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS
- Law Institute of Victoria
- Industrial Relations Society of Victoria
- Australian Labour Lawyers Association
- LIV Accredited Specialist – Workplace Relations
AWARDS
- Doyle’s Guide Leading Australian Employment Lawyer 2026
- Doyle’s Guide Leading Australian Employment Lawyer 2025
- Doyle’s Guide Leading Victorian Employment Lawyer 2025
- Doyle’s Guide Leading Victorian Employment Lawyer 2024
- Doyle’s Guide Leading Victorian Employment Lawyer 2023
- Doyle’s Guide Leading Victorian Employment Lawyer 2022
- Doyle’s Guide Leading Victorian Employment Lawyer 2021
- Doyle’s Guide Leading Victorian Employment Lawyer 2020
- Doyle’s Guide Leading Victorian Employment Lawyer 2019
- Lawyer Monthly Human Rights Lawyer of the Year, Australia, 2018
- APAC Legal Awards Commercial Litigator of the Year, Australia, 2018
- Doyle’s Guide Leading Victorian Employment Lawyer 2017
- Doyle’s Guide Leading Victorian Health and Safety Lawyer 2017