Luke works across intellectual property, technology and life sciences disputes.
He has been commended as one of Australia’s leading emerging litigators.
His copyright experience includes advising some of the world’s leading technology companies and digital platforms on copyright strategy, enforcement, and reform. He assists in pursuing infringers and defending claims across the spectrum of intellectual property rights, including in some of Australia’s industry-shaping patent disputes.
Luke is an up-and-coming lawyer in privacy and data litigation, particuarly at the intersection of digital platforms, new technologies, and healthcare. As a member of KWM’s Digital Economy practice, Luke assists the technology, media and entertainment sectors with disputes in online safety, content moderation, intermediary liability, defamation, consumer protection, and advertising.
In life sciences, he has working knowledge of innovations in artificial intelligence, digital and telehealth, and experimental and alternative therapies. Luke has assisted clients with Australia’s complex regulation of emerging medical devices and apps, online advertising and dispensing, product recalls, listing and delisting of therapeutic goods, and human research and clinical trials.
Cool under pressure – Legal Counsel, ASX 20 Technology Company
Outside of KWM, Luke is the Vice-President of the Copyright Society of Australia. He was first appointed a Panel Lawyer for the Arts Law Centre of Australia in 2015 and is acknowledged as a leader in Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property and Indigenous Data Sovereignty practice through his advocacy for First Nations artists and their communities.
His work has been ranked as a Managing Intellectual Property 'Rising Star’ since 2019. In 2020, he was awarded the Young Alumni Award by the University of Newcastle, and was the Australian Law Awards' Senior Associate of the Year for 2019.
