Admitted to Bar: 2016

Licensee Since: 2026

Jill Williams maintains a broad commercial practice, specialising in complex commercial disputes, class actions, equity, competition and consumer law, insurance, and corporations and insolvency.

Initially admitted to the Bar in Victoria, Jill now practices full time from Sydney and accepts briefs nationally. She has acted for major Australian and international corporations, financial institutions, insurers, fund managers and government agencies. Her recent matters include the FX/Wisbey Class Action (for UBS), Beach Energy, UGL, Noumi/Freedom Foods and the ANZ/CCI retail class actions. She is recognised as a Leading Junior Counsel for Commercial Disputes in the Legal 500: Australian Bar (2025).

Before being called to the Bar, Jill was a Senior Associate at Allens, specialising in complex commercial, regulatory and insurance disputes, and completed an in-house secondment at NAB. She has previously lectured at the University of Melbourne in Corporate Insolvency and was a reporter for the Commonwealth Law Reports between 2018 and 2023.

Jill holds a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from Oxford University, a Bachelor of Laws (Hons I) and a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) from Monash University.