James True

Practice Group Leader

Practice Areas

Data and Privacy
Employment

James is a Practice Group Leader in LegalVision’s Employment team. He advises across all areas of employment, including employment and independent contractor agreements, termination of employment (including redundancy and unlawful termination), employment disputes, investigations, modern awards, work health safety obligations and notifiable incidents. Prior to joining LegalVision, James spent almost 10 years working in private practice across employment and work health safety.

James has experience dealing with businesses of all shapes and sizes across a broad range of industries. He assists those businesses by providing commercially focused advice, which makes Australia’s rather complex industrial laws (almost) understandable.

James’ secondary expertise is in data and privacy, where he routinely advises businesses in relation to data handling practices. This includes the development of privacy policies and data protection policies, mandatory breach notification, direct marketing as well as the many obligations under the GDPR.

In his spare time, James is usually at the dog park teaching his Welsh Terrier to fetch (unsuccessfully).

Qualifications: Bachelor of Laws, Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, Macquarie University.

Expertise

Employment

Providing guidance to employers with their employment law needs.

Assisting employers to comply with their work health safety obligations.

Assisting employers to identify and remediate wage underpayments.

Acting for employers in matters before the Fair Work Commission and Federal Circuit Court (and other jurisdictions).

Advising employers on modern award coverage and determining appropriate rates of pay for their employees.

Data and Privacy

Advising employers on their data and privacy obligations.

Client Reviews

The legal work provided by the team at LegalVision has been invaluable to Just Cuts. LegalVision’s balance between quality and efficiency is particularly impressive and integral to the success of our many franchised outlets. Their lawyers maintain a consistently high quality of service and their fixed-fee approach is a breath of fresh air.

Amber Turnbull, Just Cuts (COO)

LegalVision assisted with a number of legal docs and advice including negotiating with large corporates. They demonstrate pragmatism, experience and deep understanding of our business' risk profile, and has led to us counting LegalVision as an integral ingredient to the overall success of our business.

Anthony Bekker, ROKT (Head of Operations Strategy)

We have worked with LegalVision on our shareholders agreement, employee share scheme and a capital raise. Their fees are very reasonable compared to “name” firms and they have repeatedly gone the extra mile and demonstrate they know the startup space.

John Baini, TruePillars (Co-Founder & CEO)

LegalVision's lawyers are the team you want by your side when reviewing and negotiating contract terms. We’ve worked with LegalVision during our Friends & Family Round where they prepared our convertible notes, and during our seed round which we closed with excellent terms and well ahead of schedule.

Federico Collarte, Baraja Pty Ltd (Founder)

Meet James True