Personable, professional and hardworking
“Kate has been an amazing asset to the Arup legal team. Kate joined us for 12 months to assist with some temporary resourcing constraints and has proven to be an invaluable member of the team. Kate formed part of our contract review team and fitted in seamlessly from day one. Whilst Kate’s technical legal skills are clearly a strength, Kate’s biggest asset is her ability to work hand-in-glove with project managers to achieve the best commercial result. Kate is extremely personable, professional and hardworking and has been a joy to work with.”
Gordon Kenwright
General Counsel (Australasia), Arup
Solutions focused, positive and professional
“Kate has worked seamlessly with our team for the last 10 months to assist primarily with contract reviews and negotiations where we lacked internal resources. Kate was up and running straight away without disruption to our team, business or clients. She offered solutions to internal and external clients, added value to our internal processes and delivered outcomes on time. Kate is an excellent communicator and has been a mentor to junior members of the team. I have appreciated her solutions focused, positive and professional approach, which has earned respect within the legal team and the wider business. I would not hesitate to use Constructive Legal again and to recommend Kate’s services.”
Belinda Ritchie
General Counsel, Arcadis Australia Pacific
A safe pair of hands
“Kate has worked with the Lendlease Building Legal Team in a consultant capacity since December 2017. Kate was initially engaged to complete the business improvement initiative of refreshing legal templates, a job that was in urgent need of doing, but one that we struggled to both prioritise and resource. Since joining us as a consultant Kate has represented Lendlease in contract negotiations, drafting contract documents and project managing issues to resolution and on strategy. Kate is also now assisting us on a contract automation project which has included the driving and implementation of strategy and managing both internal and external stakeholders.
Across Lendlease, Kate has easily established relationships, is a pleasure to work with, adaptable to change and readily adopts systems and processes to meet stakeholder requirements. Having Kate working on our projects is knowing that the work is in a safe pair of hands and the brief is being met.”
Karin Ragel
Head of Legal, Lendlease Building (now Head of Supply Chain Risk, Global Supply Chain, Lendlease)
Outsanding technical ability
“Kate’s technical ability in construction law is outstanding, and is a function of her work with high performing teams over a number of years.
Technical ability aside, one of Kate's greatest strengths is her ability to drop seamlessly into a team or project, and very quickly become an indispensable trusted advisor to the legal team and the broader business. Kate is just as much a people manger and project manager as she is a legal subject matter expert. This skill-set enables Kate to effectively and efficiently manage complex multi-stakeholder projects - not necessarily just purely ‘legal’ in nature.
Kate recently joined my project team to deliver a complex legal ‘document automation’ project, which involved a number of commercial, legal, ICT, legal tech and executive stakeholders - internal and external. In addition to managing all aspects of legal drafting and analysis, Kate also took on a broader project management role for all legal and non-legal elements, which was critical to the success of the project as a whole.
I would recommend Kate to anyone looking for a trusted advisor, legal project manager or team member with impeccable people skills and commercial acumen, whether in-house or private practice.”
Tim McDonald
General Counsel, Construction Australia at Lendlease
Great attention to detail
“Fielding Robinson Lawyers engages Kate Donegan at Constructive Legal when we have capacity constraints. Kate is available, reliable, has great attention to detail and has always helped us deliver on time for our clients.”
MAL FIELDING
Director, Fielding Robinson Lawyers