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Angela Wong first joined Slater & Gordon when she was selected to participate in Sydney’s first summer clerkship programme in 2008. Angela now assists in advising on a wide range of commercial related issues, including breach of contract, Trade Practices, corporations law, and intellectual property, for both corporate clients and individuals.
Angela has assisted in a number of complex litigation matters, including the high-profile defamation case by Tony Papaconstuntinos against Peter Holmes a Court. She acted as investor correspondence manager for the Oz Minerals class action. Angela has a particular interest in class action proceedings, intellectual property, and trade practices, especially relating to consumer protection.
Areas of Practice
- Contract and general commercial disputes
- Class actions
- Defamation
- Trade Practices
- Trademark and copyright
Career history
- Since 2010 Slater & Gordon (lawyer)
- 2009-2010 Slater & Gordon (graduate clerk)
- 2008-2009 Slater & Gordon (summer clerk)
- 2007-2009 Bernard Chiu Legal & Business Solutions (legal research assistant)
- 2006 Mok & Associates (legal assistant)
Professional qualifications & admissions
- 2011 Admitted, High Court of Australia
- 2010 Admitted, Supreme Court of New South Wales
- 2010 Graduate Diploma Legal Practice, College of Law, New South Wales
- 2009 Combined Bachelors of Commerce/Laws, University of New South Wales
Memberships & associations
- Law Society of New South Wales
- University of New South Wales Law Alumni
Cultural heritage
Angela Wong was born in Sydney to parents who immigrated from Hong Kong in 1986. Angela spent her childhood in Sydney’s northern suburbs of Turramurra and Killara in a bilingual family fluent in both Cantonese and English. She continued to study languages in high school, including Latin and French (attaining proficiency in French).
Angela embarked on her law degree while working part-time in boutique law firms providing conveyancing, business advisory and investment services to clients mainly from the Chinese community.
She regularly travels to Hong Kong and China to visit family and friends.