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Practice Summary

Alaina specialises in intellectual property law and commercial law, encompassing both contentious and non-contentious matters.  She has been involved in a number of complex cases working as part of a larger team in both the High Court and Court of Appeal, as well as advising and appearing in cases as sole counsel in proceedings in the High Court, IPEC, the IPO, the Patents County Court and in mediation.

Before coming to the bar, Alaina practised as a litigation solicitor in Australia (Blake Dawson Waldron, now Ashurst LLP) and in the UK (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and TSol). She qualified as a barrister and solicitor in Western Australia in 2006.