Geoffrey Giudice is to join Ashurst Australia's employment practice as a consultant from 8 April. Giudice was president of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission between 1997 and 2009  and inaugural president of Fair Work Australia, serving between 2009 and 2012.  He will consult exclusively to Ashurst.

Since retiring from Fair Work Australia (now known as the Fair Work Commission) in February 2012, he has been an Honorary Professorial Fellow at both the Department of Management and Marketing in the Faculty of Business and Economics and the Law Faculty in the University of Melbourne. He will continue in these roles in addition to his Ashurst duties.