Our Team

Lisa Gazis

Tel:  +61 2 9241 1199

Email: lisa.gazis@mahlab.com.au

Lisa is the Managing Director of Mahlab Recruitment (NSW). Lisa manages the NSW recruitment operations. Lisa provides strategic consulting services to corporations and law firms in Australia and abroad. She is involved in senior corporate and partner level search and recruitment campaigns.

Lisa is a regular speaker and writer on recruitment issues such as industry trends, recruitment and retention strategies, staff remuneration and career management.

She joined Mahlab after a career as a solicitor with Freehills, Sydney.

Lisa is a member of the Executive of the New South Wales Division of the Australian Corporate Lawyers Association. She is a member of the Australian Institute of Management, the National Association of Personnel Consultants and the Australasian Professional Services Marketing Association. Lisa was also a visiting member of the Board of the Law Faculty of the University of Wollongong.

Lisa has a Masters of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts.

Katherine Sampson

Tel:  +61 3 9629 2111

Email: katherine.sampson@mahlab.com.au

Katherine is the Managing Director of Mahlab Recruitment (Vic) Pty Ltd. In addition to senior level search, she advises clients on mergers, strategic partner recruitment, management and legal department structures and often speaks at industry conferences and seminars. 

Katherine serves on a number of boards and committees in both legal and non-legal spheres. She was a participant in the 2020 Summit, Governance section and has been a public member of the Australian Press Council since September 2002. 

Other board and committee positions have included executive committee member of the Australian Corporate Lawyers Association for almost a decade, board member of Craft Victoria (1995 to 1997), Deputy Chair of the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute Ethics Committee (1991 to 2002) and board member of the Melbourne International Arts Festival (1998 to 2004).

Katherine undertook the Williamson Community Leadership program (Leadership Victoria) in 1996 and is a regular speaker at its Board Orientation Series.

Katherine joined Mahlab Recruitment, Australia's best-known legal recruitment and search business, in 1985 after having practised law at (the then) Corr & Corr. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honours and a Bachelor of Laws from Monash University and is a graduate of the AICD.

About Our Team