Why choose Interior Legal?
With extensive legal and strategic commercial expertise across a diverse range of complex industries, we can get started straight away to provide you with the legal support you need.
We provide support that is meaningfully engaged and brilliantly commercial, working with you to understand your organisational and stakeholder objectives and priorities.
About Interior Legal
Dawnie Evans is the founder and principal of Interior Legal.
With over 15 years of senior legal expertise with large and complex organisations across various industries including in consumer goods, consulting, technology and higher education, Dawnie established Interior Legal to provide a flexible, scalable solution to help organisations get the legal support they need in an accessible way.
Dawnie has private practice experience with large law firms both in Sydney and Shanghai, and has been fortunate to work with incredible people at organisations such as Goodman Fielder, EY, Dick Smith, eBay, and PayPal. In higher education she's worked at the University of Technology Sydney, with a stint as Acting General Counsel and served as a Director on the Board of the Society of University Lawyers.
She has been recognised as an Australasian Lawyer - In House Leader, Lawyer's Weekly Finalist - FMCG Lawyer of the Year and with her team at UTS as a Finalist in the Australian Corporate Counsel - Small Legal Team of the Year.
At Interior Legal, in addition to our commercial services, we have a keen commitment to doing something good. Read more about our For Purpose offering.
Our Legal Services
We offer experienced in-house legal advice through meaningfully engaged and brilliantly commercial legal services.
We provide the following tailored and scalable solutions-focused help when you need it. Engage with us directly or through one of your panel recruitment partners or law firms that we work with.
Freelance Contracting Support
Senior in-house legal support to cover recruitment gaps, parental and other leave, specific projects or transactions.
Fractional Senior Legal and General Counsel Support
Competitively priced, senior legal support without a full-time employee commitment.
Legal team optimisation support including team and organisational engagement, streamlining processes, managing external firm engagement and spend.
Ongoing and Interim Retainers
Interim or ongoing, scalable commercial contracting, dispute resolution, compliance and regulatory support to alleviate your workload when needed.
Legal Project Management
People centred, outcomes driven, legal project management, including support for transactions and broader institutional change management.
What can we help with?
Corporate and strategic commercial advice
Practical and executable advice on legal and regulatory requirements, governance, risk and compliance.
We can provide advice on intellectual property, competition and consumer law issues and other legislative requirements.
Dispute resolution
Proactive management and resolution of commercial disputes.
We work with you on early stage dispute resolution and can help with in house disputes and litigation management.
Advice and management of contracts, transactions and collaborative arrangements.
Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts and transactions.
Optimising legal teams and processes
We work with you to review and develop your legal team’s strategy, engagement and to streamline processes and templates.
