About - Ashore-Legal

Ashore Legal provides high-quality, expert legal services specialising in employment and workplace relations law.

Ashore Legal provides businesses with clear, practical and strategic legal solutions for workforce challenges. We aim to give you the clarity and confidence to effectively navigate challenging workplace situations.

Clear

We provide concise, jargon-free advice that gives you clarity and confidence. We distill complex legal issues into actionable insights tailored to your business.

Practical

Our solutions are practical and actionable, designed to work in your specific business context. We offer guidance that’s not just legally sound but operationally effective.

Strategic

Our advice is tailored to your business, your context and your strategic objectives.

We have deep expertise in workplace law, gained from experience working in private practice and the in-house legal team of the University of Sydney.

We value personal and trusted relationships and we’re easy to work with. We want to get to know you, your business and its context, so we can provide effective advice and support that’s best suited to your needs.

We provide a highly responsive service.

By working with Ashore Legal, you will get high quality advice and service, you will have clarity and a sense of assurance to effectively deal with challenging workforce matters, and you will enjoy working with us.

Expert Employment & Workplace Relations Legal Services

Ashore Legal offers tailored legal advice and representation across the full spectrum of employment and workplace relations law.

Employment contracts and workplace policies

Misconduct and performance management

Terminations and redundancies

Bullying, harassment and discrimination

Enterprise agreements and modern award compliance

Payment compliance

Unfair dismissal and adverse action claims

Workplace investigations

Ashley Fry

Director and Principal of Ashore Legal.

Deep expertise

Ash knows employment and industrial relations law inside out. He has over 15 years’ experience from working at a leading specialist workplace law firm and the in-house legal team at the University of Sydney as the Director, Employment, Workplace Relations & Administrative Law. Ash also has a Master of Laws (specialising in labour law) from the University of Sydney.

Ash has experience advising and representing clients on a wide range of workplace issues, including misconduct and performance management, restructures and redundancies, harassment, bullying and discrimination, workplace disputes, including negotiation with unions, enterprise agreement and modern award interpretation, negotiation and compliance, payment compliance, wrongdoing complaints, work, health and safety, and litigation in Courts and Tribunals such as unfair dismissal and adverse action claims in the Fair Work Commission.

Approach

Ash provides client focused, clear, practical and strategic advice, as well as strong representation and advocacy when needed. With significant in-house experience, Ash appreciates the importance of understanding client needs, strategic objectives and operational context to be able to provide the most effective advice and support. The type of support that gives clients clarity and confidence – a sense of assurance – to make the best decisions in what can often be difficult circumstances.