Paul is a highly regarded intellectual property, technology and entertainment lawyer with over 25 years’ experience. He has been a partner at several law firms and has had significant in-house experience on secondments to client legal teams.

His expertise covers advice, contract drafting and negotiation and dispute resolution covering technology contracts (including outsourcing, website development, software development and implementation and systems integration projects), general procurement tendering and contracting, trade marks and branding advice and intellectual property. He also assists clients with privacy, data security, consumer law and other compliance issues.

Paul has been recognised by his peers in Best Lawyers in Australia in the areas of Entertainment Law, Information Technology Law, Intellectual Property Law, Privacy and Data Security Law, Education Law and Telecommunications Law. He has also been recognised as a recommended Technology, Media & Telecommunications Lawyer (Victoria) in Doyle’s Guide 2018.

Paul presents regularly to continuing legal education programs and industry seminars on legal issues. In 2018 he presented a number of seminars on the topic of ethics and artificial intelligence and was a panellist at a presentation by Information Governance ANZ in May. He is a director of the music industry peak body Music Australia. Paul is a professional musician and appears regularly in concerts with his wife, the singer and actor Bernadette Robinson.

Prior to joining Keypoint Law, Paul was a partner at Thomson Geer. Paul is based in Melbourne.