location_on Sydney
Olivera Stojanovska
Special Counsel
Olivera advises on liability exposure, quantum assessments, strategy and settlement recommendations, acting for insurers, multi-national companies and individuals.
Overview
Acutely aware of the importance of her clients' commercial objectives, Olivera balances this against achieving positive legal and business outcomes in resolving matters.
Olivera instructs counsel at hearing, works with clients to progress matters to settlement discussions or hearing, as well as appearing and arguing interlocutory matters before the District and Supreme Courts. Olivera has appeared and successfully argued matters in NCAT, and advises her client's on indemnity and works with stakeholders to manage competing interests.
Olivera assists health practitioners with regulatory enquiries and has appeared and guided clients through the Coronial Inquest process, including at hearing.
Olivera is adept at identifying trends in clients' data to assist them to proactively manage claims. For example, she was involved in managing a self-insured multinational company's claims portfolio, covering slip and fall, motor accidents, property damage and food contamination. Olivera assisted in collecting, preparing, interpreting and reporting on claims data for the client, and made recommendations for preventative measures to minimise the occurrence of incidents and reduce overall claims costs and premiums.
Olivera regularly defends claims relating to large construction sites involving multiple parties and multiple issues, including workers' compensation and recovery. She works closely with the client to understand the facts and exposure at an early stage to inform settlement strategy, to minimise legal spend on a matter, particularly in large-scale multi-million dollar Supreme Court matters. Her work traversed investigating and assessing the extent of involvement of labour hire entities on her client's site, to shift liability and minimise her clients exposure.
Holding a Bachelor of Social Science from the University of Western Sydney, a Juris Doctor from UTS and a Master of Laws from the University of Sydney, Olivera was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of New South Wales on 18 February 2011 and is also admitted to practice in the High Court of Australia.