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Law Squared has appointed former Toll Group senior legal counsel to lead its disputes and litigation practice.
Molly Liskazer, who joins as head of disputes and litigation, brings five years of experience at Toll Group, where she was responsible for national and international litigation and insurance claims, leading a national team across litigation, insurance, and risk.
The appointment follows a year of significant growth that has seen the team more than triple in size.
Earlier this year, Law Squared hired Erica Zhong as its head of Cubed, the technology for in-house legal teams.
The addition of Liskazer follows a period of rapid expansion for the firm’s disputes team, expanding from four practitioners to 15 within the last year while managing matters for corporate clients, financial institutions, energy and utility providers, and insurers throughout all Australian jurisdictions and the UK.
The firm said the expansion has been driven by growing demand for its fixed-stage fee model, which provides clients with predetermined legal costs for each stage of a dispute, with fees agreed before work begins.
Law Squared chief executive Claire Sundin said the firm’s approach was designed to give clients greater clarity over litigation costs and allow them to make more informed decisions regarding disputes.
“Litigation is where the billable hour does the most damage,” Sundin said.
“Without clear visibility of cost, clients ration advice, delay decisions and settle just to stop the meter running.
“We’ve spent 10 years showing that litigation can be priced like any other professional service on high-volume work and complex disputes alike.
“Our clients now run litigation the way they run the rest of their business, with a known cost and a measurable return.”
At Toll Group, Liskazer spent five years managing both national and international litigation and insurance claims, leading a national team across litigation, insurance, and risk.
Liskazer noted that her experience managing litigation internally had given her an understanding of what corporate legal teams expect from their external advisers.
“I’ve been the client, managing litigation inside a major corporate,” Liskazer said.
“What in-house teams want is certainty about what a dispute will cost, what it is likely to return, and a firm that reports on both.
“Law Squared has built its practice around that. My job is to take it into larger and more complex matters without losing the human side of how we work.”
Liskazer leads the practice with three recently appointed team leads: Melanie Skinner, Gino Joseph, and Natalie Markovski.
