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Jenna Vardi LL.B. (Hons), B.A., GDLP

Special Counsel

Jenna is a senior employment and industrial relations lawyer with around 15 years’ experience advising employers, organisations and senior leaders across a broad range of workplace relations, industrial and governance matters.

Experience

Background

Jenna is a senior employment and industrial relations lawyer with around 15 years’ experience advising employers, organisations and senior leaders across a broad range of workplace relations, industrial and governance matters.

Jenna provides strategic, practical and commercially focused advice across all aspects of employment and industrial law, including:

  • enterprise bargaining
  • workplace investigations
  • disciplinary and conduct matters
  • organisational change and restructures
  • discrimination and bullying matters
  • unfair dismissal claims
  • industrial disputes
  • governance and compliance, and the interpretation of enterprise agreements
  • awards, contracts and workplace policies.

She has extensive experience representing parties in courts and tribunals, appearing in complex and sensitive workplace disputes and advising on high risk employee relations issues with significant operational and reputational implications. Jenna is known for providing clear, balanced and solutions focused advice tailored to the operational realities of her clients.

Jenna has significant enterprise bargaining and industrial advisory experience, having led and advised on complex negotiations across the education and transport sectors involving large and diverse workforces. She also has extensive experience conducting and advising on workplace investigations, managing sensitive employee matters and supporting organisations through change and compliance processes.

Jenna is passionate about building trusted client relationships and delivering practical, commercially sensible outcomes. She is also experienced in delivering workplace training, seminars and capability development programs.

Prior to joining marshalls+dent+wilmoth lawyers, Jenna held senior roles at Independent Schools Victoria, the Australian Rail, Tram and Bus Industry Union and Maurice Blackburn Lawyers. Her experience spans private practice, member associations and industrial organisations, giving her a unique perspective on workplace strategy, risk management and dispute resolution.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Laws (Honours, First Class), Monash University
  • Bachelor of Arts (Politics & International Studies), Monash University
  • Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, The College of Law

Memberships

  • Admitted to the Supreme Court of Victoria and High Court of Australia
  • Member, Law Institute of Victoria
  • Member, Industrial Relations Society of Victoria