Kylie Lightman
Knowledge Special Counsel
Norton Rose Fulbright Australia
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Biography
Kylie Lightman is a senior knowledge lawyer based in Melbourne.
Kylie has a particular focus on construction and engineering. Kylie has more than 20 years experience in the areas of construction law and building regulation, including more than 16 years as a client-facing lawyer before commencing work with the firm as a knowledge lawyer in 2014. Her areas of practice have included transactional and contentious construction matters, and regulatory and compliance issues. She now provides knowledge support to the construction team nationally.
Professional experience
Collapse all- Arts/Law combined degree (BA Philosophy/ LLB (Hons)), University of Western Australia - first class honours in Law (1993).
- Supreme Court of Victoria 1997
- Supreme Court of Western Australia 1994
- High Court of Australia 1994
- Award recipient - Convocation Medal for Philosophy and Butterworths Book Prize for Trusts.
- Law Society of Victoria
- English
Insights
Wider reach and new penalties for breach of the unfair contract terms regime to impact the construction industry
Publication | January 19, 2023
NSW to be first to introduce decennial liability insurance for strata developments
Publication | November 09, 2022
Obligations of designers, builders and engineers in NSW are now confirmed under new Regulation
Publication | May 05, 2021