Raena Lea-Shannon BA LLB

Partner

Raena Lea-Shannon has 20 years experience in copyright, media and entertainment law and a thorough knowledge of digital media and information technologies.

Raena has written numerous articles and presented papers on Entertainment and Media Law. She lectured part-time at the University of New South Wales in the Entertainment Law Masters. She is a committed and active advocate for freedom of expression. She has been a Committee Member and public officer of Watch On Censorship for over a decade. Raena has represented the Distributors of the films Irreversible (Accent Film Entertainment), Nine Songs (Accent Film Entertainment), Anatomy of Hell (Potential Films) and Mysterious Skin (Hopscotch) as well as a number of mass market computer games to the Office of Film and Literature Classification Review Board

She is a member of the New South Wales Society for Computers and the Law. In 2006 she founded the Open Legal Practice Standards Collaboration Org which was launched at the 2006 LinuxWorld Conference and Expo at the Sydney Convention Centre.

In 1999 she was awarded the Law Society of NSW, Community Legal Centre award for pro bono solicitor for working voluntarily with the Arts Law Centre over a period of more than fifteen years.