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Fighting back for almost 100 years

At Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, we fight for outcomes that make a genuine difference to peoples' lives. Maurice McCrae Blackburn founded our firm in Melbourne in 1919. Almost 100 years later, our founder's belief that the law should serve everyone, not just those who can afford it, remains at the heart of what we do. We're now a national law firm that has remained true to our roots of standing up for workers' rights and fighting back against unfair treatment, mass wrongs, and injustice.

We understand the compensation you receive is vital to ensuring quality of life for you and your family. Like our clients, our lawyers come from many backgrounds and have different experiences and expertise. They fight with tenacity, and treat clients with sincerity, respect and compassion.

Who we represent

Maurice Blackburn's compensation lawyers act for people who have been hurt, injured or suffered loss. We have expertise in cases involving work injury compensation, medical negligence, car accident injuries and asbestos exposure. Our lawyers are also experts in employment and industrial disputescontesting wills, assisting people injured in a public place or by a faulty product and in making superannuation and insurance claims. Through Maurice Blackburn Commercial, we provide advice and act in commercial litigation and financial advice disputes for a wide range of union and business clients.

Leading law firm

We are Australia's largest class action law firm. We have recovered more than $700m for groups, individuals, shareholders and businesses that have suffered loss due to illegal behaviour by big business. In the past two years, Maurice Blackburn has settled major shareholder class actions against AWB, Multiplex, Centro and Nufarm. In 2011, the firm settled a cartel claim against Amcor and Visy for $120m. It was the largest cartel settlement in Australian corporate history. We are also fighting back against unfair fees imposed by Australian banks including the 'big 4'.

As one of Australia's leading law firms for employees, we've acted in many high profile employment law and industrial relations disputes, including representing the Maritime Union of Australia in its 1998 landmark dock dispute against Patrick Stevedores.

Pro bono work

Our Social Justice Practice is at the core of what we do. In appropriate cases that benefit the community, Maurice Blackburn provides free legal services. Currently we're representing a group of Traditional Owners not adequately consulted about Australia's first nuclear waste dump being located at Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory, and we're fighting against the right for companies to own the patents to human genes.