Maurice Blackburn (law firm)

Major cases

• The 40-Hour Working Week Case - in conjunction with the Australian Council of Trade Unions Maurice Blackburn fought for shorter working hours;
• MUA Waterfront Dispute Case - represented maritime workers against the Commonwealth Government during the waterfront dispute in 1998;
• The GIO Class Action - the first shareholder class action win in Australian legal history;
• Centro Class Action - the biggest class action settlement in legal history;
• Mohammed Haneef Case - defended Dr. Haneef against false charges of terrorism in 2010 and later acted on his behalf in a defamation matter;
• The Gene Patent BRCA1 Case - a ruling that saw the High Court rule that a mutated gene that causes cancer cannot be subject to a patent under Australian law;

  Former staff

• Maurice McRae Blackburn, Firm Founder, Former Labor MP and Former Independent Labor MP
• Bill Shorten, Opposition Leader and Federal Labor MP
• Nicola Roxon, Former Commonwealth Attorney-General and Federal Labor MP
• Terri Butler, Federal Labor MP
• Peter Cashman, Barrister and Academic at the University of Sydney
• Eugene Arocca
• Bill Slater, Australian politician and founder of the law firm Slater and Gordon Lawyers.
• Murray Watt, Australian Labor Senator and Former Queensland Labor MP
• Justice Bernard Murphy, Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
• John Button, Former Labor Senator for Victoria
• John Cain Jnr, Former Victorian Government Solicitor