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Managing Partner

Key Practice Fields

  • Arbitration
  • Commercial Property Disputes
  • Construction and Design Disputes
  • Corporate Insolvency and Restructures
  • Corporate and Business Disputes
  • Corporations Law
  • Directors and Officers; Fraud, Misconduct and Insurance
  • Partnership and Shareholder Disputes
  • Professional Negligence

Millie Russell is the Managing Partner of Russells. She has over 16 years of broad experience in a wide range of complex commercial disputes.

She has particular experience in building and construction law, corporations law and corporate insolvency.

Millie has experience in complex commercial, director and shareholder disputes in Queensland, New South Wales and the Federal Courts.

Millie also has experience in large scale, complex design and construction disputes. She has acted for international top tier engineering firms, international specialist constructors and Australian construction companies of all sizes in private arbitrations, ICC arbitrations and disputes in superior Courts in Australia.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Laws, University of Queensland, 2007

Professional Admissions

  • Admitted as solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland, 2009
  • Admitted as solicitor of the High Court of Australia, 2009

Professional Recognition

  • Recommended Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyer, Queensland, Doyles Guide 2023- 2025
  • Leading Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution Lawyer, Queensland, Doyles Guide 2025
  • Recommended Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution Lawyer, Queensland, Doyles Guide 2023-2024

Professional Publications and Committees

  • Member, Queensland Law Society
  • Member, Queensland Law Society Ethics Advisory Committee
  • Member, Queensland Law Society AI in Legal Practice Committee

Professional Experience

  • Managing Partner, Russells, 2025 to present
  • Partner, Russells, 2020 to 2025
  • Senior Associate, Russells, 2019-20
  • Special Counsel – Litigation, Ellem Warren, 2019
  • Senior Lawyer, Schweikert Harris, 2017-18
  • Senior Associate, McBride Legal, 2014-16
  • Solicitor, Jason Nott Solicitors, 2012-14
  • Solicitor, Russells (formerly Russell and Company), 2009-12
  • Graduate Lawyer, Russell and Company, 2008-09