Alisa Taylor
With 20 years’ experience, Alisa Taylor has the technical expertise, commercial nous and strong connections necessary to get you the solution you need to move past a dispute.
Alisa works hard to keep the deal or project viable while preserving relationships and maintaining your reputation. Often this involves negotiation or cost-effective alternative dispute resolution. But she is also keenly attuned to those circumstances (or opponents) where swift and decisive litigation is needed. When courts are the best option, her team will act quickly to get your matter before a judge.
Our large team of litigators represents government, large and small businesses, and individuals across the full range of commercial disputes.
Alisa also leads MV Law’s employment, industrial relations and safety team. She and her team have extensive expertise in advising on all aspects of the employment relationship, whether that be advising on internal document suites, documenting new employment relationships, enterprise bargaining, workplace investigations, or dealing with disputes between employer and employee.
In her spare time, Alisa supports the local community as President of The Canberra North Bowling and Rugby Union Club (The RUC).
- General commercial disputes, including breach of contract, debt recovery and director or shareholder disputes
- Problems arising out of land acquisitions and development agreements
- Town planning advice, including applications for review in the ACAT and NSW Land and Environment Court
- Construction contract administration, whether assisting superintendents make key decisions on large commercial projects, or helping residential owners navigate their new role as principal on a building site
- Construction disagreements, whether related to delay, defects, variations, or payment, including security of payment adjudications and enforcement
- Dealing with the ABCC, the Construction Occupations Registrar, ACTPLA and other construction or property industry regulators
- Unit title or strata title issues
- Property disputes including mortgage recovery, breach of leases or occupancy agreements
- Business and property tax issues and land valuation disputes, including challenging government decisions
- Consumer law and competition, including regulatory investigations by the ACCC or various state and territory consumer departments
- Bankruptcy and insolvency including examination hearings, seizure of property and attachment of earnings.
- Professional negligence
- Defamation
- Discrimination
- Employment law including employment contracts, policy documentation, Award compliance and employee entitlements advice, workplace investigations and termination of employment issues including Fair Work Commission matters
- Industrial relations/enterprise bargaining processes and disputes
- Work health and safety issues, including prohibition notices and prosecutions
Qualifications
- Masters in Construction Law— Melbourne University
- Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice – Australian National University
- Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Laws – Australian National University
Awards
- Master Builders Australia ACT Professional of the Year 2017
- Society of Construction Law Award for Construction Law 2013
Memberships and positions
- Lecturer – Construction Law— University of Canberra
- Teacher – Building Contract Law, Contract Administration, Resolving Business Disputes and associated subjects — Canberra Institute of Technology
- Society of Construction Law
- Master Builders Association
- Housing Industry Association
- National Association of Women in Construction
- Australasian Association of Workplace Investigators
- ACT Law Society
- The Canberra North Bowling and Rugby Union Club (The RUC) (President)
I want to help my clients navigate beyond their dispute, to a much better place than where they are when they first come to see me.
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