Julian Stephens continues in his role as a Company Director.  However, he is no longer practising as a lawyer. 

Julian Stephens was the Founding Partner of the law firm which is now Stephens Lawyers & Consultants. Prior to establishing the firm, he worked as a lawyer in Victoria, Western Australia and Northern Territory advocating indigenous rights.

During his long and successful career in the law, Julian Stephens was involved in advising in the area of complex commercial law and litigation, with emphasis on intellectual property, competition and consumer law, franchising, defamation, technology and computer law.

He has been an advocate for companies dealing with theft, counterfeiting, piracy, unauthorised use and other infringement of their intellectual property, technology or products.  He has been involved in leading cases in the fields of consumer law, copyright, patents or trade mark infringement and unauthorised use of confidential information – including appeals to the High Court of Australia in Autodesk Inc. and Autodesk Australia v. Dyason and Data Access Corporation v. Powerflex.  He has published and delivered papers in this field in Australia and overseas.