ErinHawthorne

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Partner

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Erin is passionate about solving difficult employment and industrial problems. She enjoys working closely with clients on innovative legal projects to implement practical solutions.


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An experienced litigator representing employers when litigation is unavoidable or advantageous, Erin has the game plan needed to protect or attack. She has worked in both private practice and in-house roles and uses her experience of being a client to deliver the best legal strategy through a lens of practicality. She enjoys using the opportunities presented by employment and industrial problems to deliver outcomes for her clients.

Erin has extensive experience assisting clients to respond to regulatory compliance inquiries and broader workforce planning and compliance projects. She enjoys working closely with clients on innovative legal projects, including business critical or highly sensitive matters, where the legal strategy has to be tailored to achieve the objectives. Erin works with clients across a range of industries, including responding to single employee or union claims as well as day-to-day employment queries.

Erin has been recognised by The Legal 500 as a "Next Generation Lawyer" (Legalese Ltd.) (2019-2021), Best Lawyers Australia for Labour & Employment (Woodward/White Inc.) (2020-2022), and Doyle's Guide (2019).



Our Australian practice operates as Seyfarth Shaw Australia, an unincorporated legal practice. Legal services provided by Seyfarth Shaw Australia are provided only by the Australian legal practitioner partners and employees of Seyfarth Shaw Australia.

  • BA, Monash University
  • LLB, Monash University
  • An Australian legal practitioner admitted in Victoria