Lara commenced her IP career as a trade mark filing clerk, trade mark lodgements officer and trade mark searcher at a national Australian IP firm. After completing her Bachelor of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney, she worked with two of Australia’s top tier law firms as a trade marks lawyer and attorney.
World Trademark Review’s WTR 1000 2024 survey included the following client commendation for Lara:
“Lara is intelligent, insightful, highly capable and an all-round great person to work with. Her extensive expertise in complex cases, coupled with her responsiveness, strategic thinking and empathy, makes her the obvious choice for our clientele.”
Lara's particular strength is delivering timely, commercially focused and pragmatic advice, not only for protection of trade marks and brands, but the effective enforcement and exploitation of rights. Lara has a keen interest in the craft food and beverage sectors as well as clean green products such as industrial hemp and is an active member of a number of key organisations in these fields.
Lara contributes to the firm’s pro bono program for not-for-profit and charitable organisations and is part of our Trade Marks group ranked as a Gold tier firm in the WTR 1000 rankings, and has been endorsed in their Trademark Prosecution and Strategy recommended list each year since 2022.
Lara is a registered Australian and New Zealand Trade Marks Attorney and trade marks lawyer.