Julie is a Partner in the Aged Care and Retirement Living team at Thomson Geer. She leads the firm's Brisbane Health & Aged Care team. Julie's team forms part of the larger national Health & Aged Care team working across Australia.  Julie specialises in providing regulatory and corporate advice to health care providers, residential aged care providers, home care providers, retirement village operators and disability services providers.

Julie is acknowledged as a leading provider of legal services to the health, aged care and retirement living industries.

She has extensive experience in providing regulatory and corporate advice across the health and aged care industries that includes providing corporate governance and structuring advice, drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, advising clients on major incidents and coroner's matters and assisting clients to resolve complex disputes. She advises a large range of aged care providers and retirement living operators including publicly listed groups, private groups and not-for-profits and is trusted advisor to some of the largest providers in the country.  

The team also provides advice in the sale and acquisition of aged care and retirement living assets. Thomson Geer also provides a wide range of template residential care agreements, home care agreements and other templates policies and documents for aged care providers. Julie has a Masters of Law with a major in health law. She has a special interest in guardianship issues and substitute decision making. Julie is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.