Julie is a Partner in the Aged Care and Retirement Living team at Thomson Geer. She leads the firm's Brisbane Health & Aged Care team. Julie's team forms part of the larger national Health & Aged Care team working across Australia.

Julie specialises in providing regulatory and commercial advice to residential aged care providers, home care providers and retirement living operators. Julie is acknowledged as a leading provider of legal services to these industries. She has extensive experience in proving commercial and regulatory advice across the health and aged care industries that includes drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, advising clients in these industries on major incidents, coroner's matters and disputes including fee recoveries for aged care providers and retirement village operators.  

She advises a large range of aged care providers and retirement living operators including publicly listed groups, private groups and not-for-profits. She is a trusted advisor to some of the largest aged care providers in the country and was retained to act for many providers in the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.

Thomson Geer also offers access online via our portal called Simply Legal to high-quality residential care agreements, home care agreements and other templates documents for aged care providers.

Julie has a Masters of Law with a major in health law. She is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.