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A modern approach to environmental law founded on longterm relationships with clients and an established network of environmental experts.
Guthrie Legal established in 2016 to help clients get the legal support they need in the way that best suits them.
Modern environmental law is about offering the flexibility of legal services to meet your needs as well as being approachable and easy for our clients to work with. We can support clients in different ways, depending on the situation.
Advice on one-off projects or transactions or specific advice
Longer term engagements for ongoing or monthly legal support akin to a fractional in-house environmental lawyer
Larger project support for transform national compliance & governance projects or long-running major projects.
As well as supporting client operational and legal teams directly as an external legal services provider, Gabrielle Guthrie offers consulting support to premier national and international law firms on environment, planning and climate matters.
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For more information about our service areas, please visit our Expertise & Services page.
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Gabrielle’s background
Gabrielle is adept at navigating Australia's complex environment and planning laws, and has advised in matters in all states and territories and at Federal level. Her expertise is broad and includes advising on compliance and enforcement; transactions; major development projects and contentious matters such as merits and judicial review and civil claims. Gabrielle has a strong regulatory background which has seen her working on large scale white collar crime, tax and other criminal investigations. She brings this expertise to her work on environmental enforcement matters and achieves pragmatic and commercial outcomes for clients.
Gabrielle has held in-house legal counsel roles (as an employee or secondee) with the Australian Conservation Foundation Inc, Orica Australia Pty Ltd and the London Stock Exchange. She understands the commercial environment, and has expertise managing legal work of organisations and briefing senior and board stakeholders. Importantly for an environmental lawyer, Gabrielle also has a depth of understanding of public interest environmental law and the importance of public and stakeholder engagement, from her work advising community and environmental groups at the Environment Defenders Office in Victoria and in the Northern Territory at EDO NT.
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My approach
I work with the best in the business, be it leading barristers, environmental consultants, planners and auditors (and yes, other lawyers!) to put together the right team for you. Through established and comprehensive networks, I work with the best specialists for your issue, at a range of price points.
19+ years’ experience
I bring over 19 years’ of legal experience in private and public interest environmental law to the table. That includes experience advising on cases in every state and territory of Australia, as well as the UK. I also bring a sharp scientific eye to legal advice, having gained a BSc Hons in Geoscience, prior to becoming a lawyer.
Environmental law is complex, constantly changing and often unique. Every site is as different as every client.
