Areas of Expertise

Aged Care & Retirement Living, Major Clinical Incident Investigations, Coronial Matters, Corporate Governance, Regulatory Compliance, Workplace Health & Safety

Julie is a Partner in the Aged Care and Retirement Living team at Thomson Geer. She leads the firm's Brisbane Health and Aged Care team. The team is a unique combination of seven lawyers and two clinical consultants. Julie's team forms part of the larger national Health and Aged Care team working across Australia.

Julie specialises in providing regulatory and commercial advice to residential aged care providers, homecare providers and retirement living operators. Julie is acknowledged as aleading provider of legal services to these industries. She has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating commercialagreements across the health and aged care industries as well as advisingclients in these industries on major incidents, coroner's matters and disputes. 

She advises a large range of aged care providers and retirement living operators including publicly listed groups, private groups and not-for-profits. She is a trusted advisor to some of the largest aged care providers in the country and was retained to act for many providers in the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.

What others say

"Preeminent Lawyer – Australia, Health and Aged Care"
Doyle's Guide 2017 – 2019
"Lawyer of the Year – Queensland, Retirement Villages and Senior Living Law"
Best Lawyers Peer Review 2023 - 2024
"Preeminent Lawyer – Queensland, Health and Aged Care"
Doyle's Guide 2016 – 2023

Experience

Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety

Acting for aged care providers in relation to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.

Revocation of accreditation of an aged care service

Acting for aged care providers in the review of administrative decisions including revocation of accreditation of an aged care service and the imposition of sanctions on an approved provider in respect of a residential aged care facility.

Aged care providers

Advising aged care providers on approvals, transfer of places and managing provisionally allocated places.

Aged Care governance

Advising aged care providers on aged care governance and the role of risk management and corrective action.

Transfer of aged care places

Acting in various acquisitions and disposals of aged care providers, aged care services and retirement villages both as share and asset sales, including review and negotiation of contracts, conducting legal due diligence, advising on regulatory issues including the transfer of aged care places.

Aged care provider

Advised a listed aged care provider on the acquisition of four aged care facilities in New South Wales and Queensland.