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Australian Migration Lawyers managing partner Perry Q. Wood is set to wear another leadership hat, having been appointed as a partner for Hugo Law Group.
Perry Q. Wood has joined Hugo Law Group as a partner, and is set to lead the firm’s strategy and growth. He will practice within the firm’s civil litigation division, with a particular focus on intentional torts and police and corrections misconduct, and also advise on anti-corruption, regulatory, white-collar, and other criminal law matters.
He will remain the managing partner of Australian Migration Lawyers, and split his time between Melbourne and Sydney as he navigates the dual leadership roles.
Earlier this year, Wood won the Managing Partner of the Year category at the Australian Law Awards. He is also the immediate past national president of the Australian Institute of Administrative Law.
In a statement, Hugo Law Group noted that Wood’s “unique combination of regulatory experience, anti-corruption expertise, and crimmigration proficiency” led it to appoint him to its partnership.
Hugo Law Group’s founding partner, Tom Taylor, said that the firm has “always been in the corner of people facing the state at its most powerful. Perry brings that same experience too, most recently for clients whose charges put their immigration status at risk”.
“We are in your corner, and Perry makes that mean more,” he said.
Wood added: “My career has always sat at the intersection of administrative and criminal law, so this new role feels like a natural extension of the work I've been doing for two decades.”
“I'm looking forward to helping shape Hugo Law Group's strategy as it continues to grow its national practice,” he said.
Previously, Wood has served as a Senior Member and Practice Leader of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, was a key architect of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), Chief Judge's Associate (to His Honour Chief Judge Michael Rozenes AO KC) at the County Court of Victoria, and a graduate in the prosecutions division of Victoria Police and the Office of Public Prosecutions.
