A boutique dispute resolution and commercial legal practice
Big firm quality and know-how, boutique delivery
Welcome to Steedman Stagg Lawyers – your Perth based dispute resolution and commercial boutique practice offering legal services in the areas of commercial & corporate disputes, defamation & media, mining & resources, property disputes, and trusts & estate work.
James and Nick have acted for listed companies and their subsidiaries, media organisations, high net wealth individuals, small to medium enterprises, private companies, family businesses, individuals, and not for profit organisations.
WORKING WITH CLIENTS AND
building trust over many years
With 60 years of combined experience at leading national and independent Perth law firms, there is not much that principals James Steedman and Nick Stagg have not already seen and done.
We have built long-standing relationships with clients through a pragmatic, plain-speaking and jargon-free approach. This approach reflects our closely held values — to gain clients’ trust, do the right thing, and achieve the best results.
Our work often requires an innovative, fresh or bespoke approach. This enables James and Nick to work with clients who need an outcome in their own set of special circumstances often for which there is no precedent.
Clients value our in-depth knowledge, technical excellence and no-nonsense practical legal advice, sensitively delivered at a competitive price.
Our Story
We met and worked side-by-side in 2009 in the Great Southern litigation for clients with common interests. Although we were at competing firms, it was the start of a close, dynamic and deeply trusting professional relationship being forged. So much so that we became partners together at Lavan. We continue our business partnership at our new legal practice Steedman Stagg Lawyers.
Our Mission
Steedman Stagg Lawyers’ shared ‘DNA’ is to deliver pragmatic, plain-speaking and jargon-free advice, an approach that is embedded in our closely held values — to gain our clients’ trust, do the right thing, and achieve the best results.
Practice Areas
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Commercial Law
Contractual Disputes
Corporate Disputes
Defamation, Media & Social Media
Litigation
Mining & Resources
Property Disputes
Trusts, Wills & Estates and related matters
Our People
James Steedman
Principal
Nick Stagg
Principal
Patrick McCarthy
Senior Associate
Isabella Jackson
Senior Associate
Charmaine Kwok
Solicitor
Alicia Nelson
Solicitor
Felicity Hampson
Practice Manager
News & Publications
The Media, Justification and Contextual Truth: Insights from the Ben Roberts-Smith Defamation Trial
Roberts-Smith v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Limited (No 41) [2023] FCA 555 The Ben Roberts-Smith and Fairfax defamation proceedings have been some of the most widely reported, controversial, and expensive in Australian legal history. Aside from the matter’s unique...
Harman Undertakings: The restrictions on using documents provided under compulsion in litigation
Where a party to litigation is compelled to hand over documents in the case, those documents can only be used by the recipient for the purpose of the litigation in which the documents were obtained. This undertaking not to use documents obtained under compulsion for...
Google LLC v Defteros [2022] HCA 27
On 17 August 2022, the High Court, by majority, found that Google was not a publisher of a defamatory media report which appeared on a user conducting an enquiry on Google’s search engine after inputting certain key search terms. In proceedings originally commenced by...