Cilla is a Partner in the King & Wood Mallesons Employee Relations & Safety team, with over 20 years’ specialist experience in employment and workplace relations law.
She is recognised for her strategic advice, assisting companies navigate high-stakes situations, such as enterprise bargaining and industrial unrest, workforce restructuring and transformation, contentious employment disputes and complex employment litigation. Her proactive style involves close collaboration with clients to develop robust industrial and employee strategies, strategically supporting core business objectives. Clients value Cilla’s business savvy and capacity to condense complex legal topics into straightforward, practical insights.
With a focus on industrial relations, Cilla’s expertise spans the full spectrum of employment law, diversity and discrimination, restraint of trade, work, health and safety, whistleblowing, workplace investigations, modern slavery, regulator prosecutions and supporting people aspects of corporate transactions.
Cilla advises Australian private sector clients as well as international entities spanning a diverse range of industries including technology and information services, financial services, retail, insurance, energy and resources, healthcare and pharmaceuticals and education. Cilla is also an expert in government employment regulation with many state and federal public sector clients.
As a market leader in Respect@Work reforms, Cilla works closely with Boards of Directors and their Executives, delivering valuable guidance and support through progressive culture change management, workplace training, policy/ systems reviews and risk audits.
Cilla was voted as one of Australia's Best Lawyers in Labour & Employment Law (2020-2023) & Employee Benefits Law (2021-2023) in Best Lawyers Australia. Cilla was also Recognised for her professional achievements and contributions to diversity and inclusion in Australasian Lawyer's Elite Women 2021 list.
Legal 500 Asia-Pacific, Labour and Employment client feedback epitomises Cilla’s approach: “pragmatic, practical and whip smart thinker, Cilla Robinson offers no nonsense solutions”.
