A SPECIALIST LAW FIRM FOCUSING EXCLUSIVELY ON WORKPLACE RELATIONS ISSUES
With 30 years’ expertise, we advise employers – locally, nationally and globally – as well as senior executives.
A SPECIALIST LAW FIRM FOCUSING EXCLUSIVELY ON WORKPLACE RELATIONS ISSUES
With 30 years’ expertise, we advise employers – locally, nationally and globally – as well as senior executives.
Heldsinger Legal’s Core Practice Areas
We recognise the importance of developing and maintaining close relationships with our clients. We take the time to properly understand our clients’ business, their industry and their specific workplace relations needs.
We use our extensive expertise and know how to assist clients in finding practical pathways through the complex workplace relations environment.
About
David Heldsinger
Director
David Heldsinger is the Principal of Heldsinger Legal. He has over 30 years’ experience in providing practical, solutions-based advice on all workplace issues.
David has practiced as a workplace relations lawyer since 1992. He completed his articles at Linklaters Alliance in London (in 1990) and relocated to Perth (in 1996) to join Herbert Smith Freehills.
In 2008, David co-founded HLS Legal, a boutique workplace relations law firm noted for both the strength of its service offerings and the impact the firm made on the market in a short period of time. While at HLS Legal, David led a team of lawyers in two significant and successful Federal Court decisions: (a) the Allseas case (Allseas Construction SA v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship [2012] FCA 529, in which the Federal Court held that offshore workers carrying out pipe laying work did not require visas) and the Pocomwell case (Fair Work Ombudsman v Pocomwell Limited & Ors (No 2) [2013] FCA 1139, in which the Federal Court held that provisions of the Fair Work Act 2009 did not apply to workers employed on offshore drilling rigs). HLS continues to this day. David left HLS Legal in 2015 to establish Heldsinger Legal and, after a brief hiatus in late 2022 and 2023, David has returned to private practice again.
David is widely acknowledged as a leading workplace relations practitioner and brings experience and a pragmatic, conciliatory approach to the hotbed of workplace related issues and disputes.
David has a BA LLB (University of the Witwatersrand (1982-1987)) and a MA (University of Notre Dame Australia (2014)).
David is assisted by a Financial Controller and Legal Researchers.
Our Experience
David has extensive expertise in all areas of employment and workplace relations issues across a broad range of industries including maritime, construction, health, retail, banking and finance, oil and gas, education and telecommunications.
His most notable assignments have included:
Heldsinger Legal’s Fees and Engagement
Fees
David’s hourly charge-out rate is $500 plus GST.
Heldsinger Legal will always provide clients with a fee estimate and, where possible, agree a fixed fee for specific, delineated work.
Terms of Engagement/Costs Agreement
Heldsinger Legal’s Terms of Engagement are available on request.
Contact Heldsinger Legal
Heldsinger Legal is based in Margaret River, where David lives and works.
However, he travels frequently to Perth for client, Court and Commission matters.
David will respond to your query on the day it is made.
If your matter is urgent, David is committed to getting back to you within 2 hours unless he is physically unable to do so because he is travelling, in Court, in a meeting or otherwise engaged.