AUSTRALIAN LAWYERS ALLIANCE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Membership Services Officer
Job Titles:
- Policy and Advocacy Manager
Elenore has been with the ALA since August 2020. She works on researching, writing and reviewing content for the ALA's policy and advocacy work, including submissions and policy papers.
Elenore graduated from the University of Sydney, having completed a Bachelor's degree in International and Global Studies (majoring in Government and International Relations) and a Juris Doctor (postgraduate law degree). During her time at university she was an active student leader, including as National Vice Chairperson of the Australasian Union of Jewish Students.
Since university, Elenore undertook a year-long leadership and learning Fellowship at the Hadar Institute in New York, and has worked in the policy, advocacy and digital strategy since returning to Sydney.
Job Titles:
- Queensland Liaison Officer
Emma joined the ALA in March 2023. As Queensland Liaison Officer, she works from Brisbane as a contact between the ALA's main office in Sydney and the ALA's largest member base in Queensland.
Emma works with the Queensland State President by assisting in the organisation of meetings, seminars and conferences held in or relevant to the state. She also helps the Queensland Committee in preparing legal research and submissions. Emma is also a Chartered Accountant and has studied a Bachelor of Business at the Queensland University of Technology.
Job Titles:
- Senior Event Coordinator
- Senior Events Coordinator
Emmerson (Emme) joined the ALA in October 2020.
As the Senior Events Coordinator she is responsible for managing hundreds of seminars and webinars each year for legal professionals around the country. Emme also works closely alongside the Event Manager on the successful delivery of the ALA's state and national conferences.
Ezra joined the ALA in July 2022. He is responsible for overseeing the ALA's communications strategy which includes managing the ALA's website and social media channels, weekly ALA newsletter (ALAn), event marketing, and distribution of media releases and submissions.
Ezra holds a Bachelor's degree in film from Northwestern University's School of Communication (Illinois, USA) and has a professional background in communications, social media and event marketing in the not-for-profit space in Australia.
Job Titles:
- APLA Queensland President, Presents
My year (2011-12) as ALA President went far too quickly! But then when you are enjoying being part of a progressive and dynamic organisation, time flies. I was really interested to get drug law reform on the agenda and we became the first legal organisation in Australia to publicly commit to campaigning for major reform in this area of the law. The policy of prohibition has been an expensive and tragic failure, resulting in unnecessary deaths and seeing addiction treated as a criminal law problem. As President I made the point that we can and should do it better. At least decriminalising and treating drugs as a health and lifestyle issue would be a great place to start. The other milestone for me was awarding Colin McDonald QC the Civil Justice Award. Colin, a barrister in Darwin, has been a wonderful campaigner for Indigenous Australians and Australians on death row in Indonesia. But above all my memory of the year was the commitment of all our members and staff to making Australia a more just society.
With an international background in advertising, marketing, communications consultancy, and project and client management, Harriet's experience means she's well suited to provide support across the ALA's head office functions on an as needed basis.
Job Titles:
- Principal, Julian Johnson Lawyers
A reception with food and drinks will be held following the seminar, to end your week networking with like-minded colleagues and peers.
Karyn brings some 20 years of experience in public relations and communication to the role of General Manager of the ALA. Prior to becoming General Manager, Karyn served as the ALA's Media Manager for 4 years, duties which she maintains in her current role.
Karyn has previously worked for public relations agencies, managing communication programs for a range of high profile consumer brands, not for profit organisations and government agencies. Her experience includes issues and crisis management, communication strategy development and implementation, media relations and media training. Karyn has also worked as a lecturer and tutor in the BA Public Communication degree at UTS.
Job Titles:
- President - Elect
- Qld Director
Job Titles:
- Event Manager
- ALA in 2015 As Events Coordinator, Managing
Natalie joined the ALA in 2015 as Events Coordinator, managing our seminars and assisting our conference manager. She was promoted to Event Manager in 2018.
She's skilled in all aspects of event coordination including event development, management and marketing within the conferencing industry. Natalie is a focused customer services professional and an excellent communicator. Prior to joining the ALA, Natalie worked at a top Australian conference company coordinating conferences within Australia and New Zealand.
I had the honour and privilege of serving as National President of the APLA (as the ALA was then known) in 2004-05. I launched my term at the National Conference in Melbourne where the APLA became the ALA, with a new logo. Our journal Plaintiff was re-named Precedent and our organisation moved into non-personal injury areas of practice, for example criminal law, to widen our sphere of influence.