Synergy Law

Supporting Government to become 'future ready', partnering with clients to achieve legally defensible outcomes.
By leaning into complex and challenging issues, we can find options and solutions to support legally defensible outcomes and provide confidence for the commonwealth.

Synergy Law is a Synergy Group integrated legal offering, specialising in Government law and legal advisory services. Synergy Law as a capability, and an added service line, enables Synergy Group to provide clients integrated end to end advisory services and solutions which are legally assured and defensible. Synergy Law also provides Synergy Group the additional capability to look at ways to ‘lean into’ future legal issues such as: cyber security, ICT and infrastructure security, emerging energy resources, climate law, supply chain management, data sharing and information law, to support Government operations becoming ‘future ready’.

Synergy Law not only provides an integrated legal service but added depth of experience through having worked in, and for, Government on complex legal, policy and program matters. We know our market, we know our clients, we understand what you need. We will lean in, work beside you, and help you achieve your outcomes.

Meet the team

From start to finish we listen and seek to understand and deliver impact, together, in partnership.

How we think

With views on what matter and knowledge to share. We pride ourselves in collaborating. Get to know us better.
Insight

Unlocking Value: The Essential Role of Auditing in Effective Contract Management

Healthy Performance Culture
The word ‘audit’ can often invoke anxiety for many individuals and businesses. On top of the anxiety, not knowing what to expect during the audit process can create apprehension. Apprehension leads to worry. Worry leads to potential and actual errors in financial or other records, as well as compliance issues. All of those issues can be uncovered during an audit, along with ‘unforced errors’ that may not paint a fulsome picture of your organisation, its staff and operating procedures. Audits also require significant time and resources to prepare for, which may disrupt regular operations. For individuals without much experience with or about audits, this can increase uncertainty about how to prepare and what will be evaluated. Those factors will exacerbate the inherent worry, anxiety and apprehensions that will arrive with the auditors.
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Insight

Why 'Good Ideas' Need to Simmer - The FOI Deliberative Matter Exemption

Rethinking work
To deliberate or to disclose? That is also the question that has vexed Freedom of Information (FOI) decision-makers since the very first days of the Freedom of Information Act, 1982 (the FOI Act) and continues to confound us in 2024. For those uninitiated in the FOI world, ‘deliberative matter’ is a conditional exemption that seeks to protect the Commonwealth Government, its Ministers and Australian Public Service (APS) staff members’ ‘thinking space.’
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