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About
Solve | Resolve identifies our approach to complex commercial issues, disputes and litigation. Our strategy is to create the optimal resolution for clients. Sometimes, that means commencing or defending legal proceedings, even to trial or adjudication. More often than not, it is about finding and successfully implementing alternative ways to achieve a commercial outcome you wouldn’t have thought possible.
The firm’s philosophy is shaped by founder Michael Mills. Recognised widely as an Australian leader in commercial litigation. Michael is a highly tactical thinker with a deep understanding of dispute resolution. Solve | Resolve is built on over 30 years’ experience in helping clients achieve successful outcomes.
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Michael Mills
Principal
Michael Mills is recognised as one of Australia’s leading lawyers for commercial disputes and resolution.
As a top commercial litigator, he has been the lead defence lawyer for some of Australia’s largest and most complex disputes, representing both leading Australian and international companies.
His areas of expertise include: directors, officers and civil liability, class actions and mass torts, product liability, regulatory investigations and resulting disputes, insurance – both insurance and risk solutions for policyholders, as well as insurance coverage disputes.
For examples of successful outcomes, see Results
Michael has long been recognised as a creative tactical thinker about ways to resolve disputes by alternative methods, whether that be by negotiation, arbitration, mediation, or other means. This has seen his practice expand into providing strategic advice and representation to clients (corporate and individual) in relation to commercial problems, disputes and how best to solve them.
Michael is an accredited mediator and teaches courses in Australia and overseas on negotiation and dispute resolution. This includes being:
- A lecturer at UNSW Law School on “Resolving Civil Disputes”;
- A nationally accredited mediator (NMAS and Resolution Institute of Australia) and appointed to a number of national mediation panels;
- Author of Thomson Reuter’s text, Dispute Resolution; and
- Member of the NSW Law Society ADR Committee, a past Chair of Resolution Institute (previously LEADR) and Advisory Board member of RAND Institute of Civil Justice.