David Andrews    

Practice Group Leader, Melbourne

Commercial Litigation

David Andrews is a Practice Group Leader in the area of commercial litigation at Slater & Gordon. He practices in a mix of litigious and non-litigious work specially focusing on insolvency, insurance, intellectual property, trade practices and general commercial issues for enterprises of varying sizes. David maintains a close involvement with clients, who comprise both senior management or in-house counsel.

David has conducted numerous seminars and lectures on intellectual property matters, insurance issues, litigation and trade practices issues to solicitors, law students and patent and trade mark attorneys. David is a lecturer in intellectual property and dispute resolution at Deakin University, Melbourne.

David Andrews' principal areas of practice are:

• insolvency advice and litigation;
• intellectual property advice, negotiation, drafting and litigation;
• trade practice advice and litigation;
• information technology advice, negotiation, drafting and litigation
• insurance law
• telecommunications
• general commercial litigation;
• customer dispute litigation;
• business and wholesale (including IPSs); and
• regulatory advice
• franchising advise, negotiation, drafting and litigation on behalf of franchisors and franchisees;
• administrative advice and litigation, including planning disputes;
• financial litigation and debt recovery;
• tax litigation (on behalf of taxpayers); and
• general commercial litigation

Expertise

• Commercial Litigation

Career history

• Slater & Gordon since 2008 (practice group leader)

Professional qualifications & admissions

• 1982 Bachelor of Laws, University of Melbourne
• 1982 Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne