Brisbane Employment & Personal Injury Lawyers

Meet Will Barsby

25 years in law and he still takes every call himself.

Brisbane Employment & Personal Injury Lawyers

Meet Will Barsby

25 years in law and he still takes every call himself.

He knows what the other side is going to say. Because he's been on the other side.

Will has represented employees and employers. Claimants and insurers. He has been in the boardroom and at the kitchen table. He has delivered the outcome a client needed to hear even when it wasn't the one they wanted, and he has fought hard when there was a fight worth having.

A man with dark hair and beard, wearing a cream collared shirt and gray pants, standing in a room with beige curtains and a brown armchair.

That dual perspective isn't just experience.  

It's a strategic advantage for every client he works with.

This is why Will does this work. Whether he's sitting across from an employee facing the end of their career, or an employer trying to do the right thing in a situation that's gotten away from them, there is always a human at the centre of it. That never gets lost.

“A person’s employment ‘is usually one of the most important things in his or her life. It gives not only a livelihood but an occupation, an identity and a sense of self-esteem.’ An unfair process of termination for alleged misconduct could affect all three of those interests; ie, a person’s livelihood, identity, and self-esteem”

— High Court of Australia

What Will does

For employees

01.

Disciplinary investigations and performance management. Employment exit and termination negotiations. Unfair dismissal and general protections claims. Redundancy and exit negotiations. Sexual harassment and discrimination matters. Workplace rights and general protections.

Employment law

02.

Performance management and disciplinary processes. Restructures and redundancy programs. Defence of unfair dismissal and general protections claims. Strategic risk advice on complex people matters.

Personal injury

03.

WorkCover and workplace injury claims. Motor vehicle accidents. TPD claims. Public liability. Acting for individuals who've been injured and need someone who understands both the personal injury and employment law intersect.

For insurers and  super funds

04.

CTP, workers' compensation, public liability, TPD and income protection claims, managed and defended with technical precision and commercial efficiency.

How Will works

He listens before he advises.

He anticipates the hard parts so clients aren't blindsided by them. He asks himself: if this were my dispute, what would I need to know, and how often would I need to hear it?

He will tell you the truth.

Including when the truth is that you don't have a case, or that pursuing it comes with real risk, cost, and time.

That honesty, he says, is the job.

Knowledge is power.

Will's goal in every matter is to give clients the knowledge they need to make their own informed choice, and then back them completely once they've made it.