Prue Greenfield

Prue leads the Commercial Litigation team at McKean Park, bringing a comprehensive knowledge and extensive experience in commercial litigation and dispute resolution. She provides adept legal counsel to a broad spectrum of clients, including various industries, small to medium enterprises (SMEs), family-owned businesses, directors, and individuals. Prue is renowned for her strategic acumen, ensuring deliberative and commercially viable outcomes for her clients. She approaches legal challenges with empathy and a keen strategic insight, ensuring that her clients’ interests are always prioritised. Prue's relational approach to client interactions sees her readily accessible, cultivating client relationships that are centred on holistic dispute resolution. Her courtroom prowess is demonstrated through her appearances in the Magistrates’ Court, County Court, Supreme Court, Federal Circuit Court, and the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. Prue also actively conducts her own mediations, displaying a firm commitment to finding amicable solutions outside of traditional litigation pathways. Before joining McKean Park in August 2024, Prue refined her legal talents at several boutique law firms in Melbourne and guided a commercial litigation and dispute resolution team at a mid-tier national law firm. This background has equipped her with diverse insights and strategies that benefit her current clientele. Prue was admitted to practice law in 2001 and continues to pursue excellence in her legal career by passionately contributing to positive outcomes for her clients. Beyond her professional commitments, Prue enjoys travelling and focuses on health and well-being, serving as a certified Les Mills fitness professional in Sprint and RPM. Her expertise includes general commercial litigation, insolvency, debt recovery, building and construction disputes, franchising disputes, contractual disputes, lease disputes, partnership disputes, intellectual property disputes, and shareholder oppression. Her service areas align closely with her expertise, ensuring her clients receive informed and competent legal guidance in commercial litigation, building and construction, and insolvency matters.