• Appellate (criminal and civil)
• Administrative and constitutional law
• Competition and consumer law
• Criminal law (including white collar crime)
• Disciplinary proceedings
• Equity and commercial law
• International and human rights law
• Regulatory law

Talia Epstein has a diverse legal background with experience in civil litigation and criminal law, and has practised both domestically and internationally. Ms Epstein accepts briefs in a broad range of matters, including commercial law, criminal law and public law.  She has particular expertise in complex fraud matters (civil and criminal).

Ms Epstein was admitted to practice in 2009 and called to the Bar in 2017. She is also admitted to practice in New York State. Earlier in her career, she worked as Associate to Justice Jacobson in the Federal Court. Prior to coming to the Bar, she practised in New York at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, where she was involved in prosecuting the Office's largest ever fraud investigation which culminated in the arrest and prosecution of over 100 former New York public officials. Ms Epstein has also practised as a solicitor in NSW and lectured in public law at the University of New South Wales. She has also worked at international organisations including the International Criminal Court in The Hague, and Human Rights Watch in New York.

Ms Epstein holds a Bachelor of Law with First Class Honours from UNSW and a Master of Law from Columbia University, where she was a James Kent Scholar, the highest class of honours. She was the recipient of the Ludlows Award for the highest overall score in the February 2017 NSW bar examinations. 

Select recent cases include:

• Briefed by defendants and the CDPP in criminal matters (including tax fraud, insolvent trading, workplace safety, regulatory prosecutions and appeals)

• Advises corporations and regulators in relation to civil and criminal regulatory matters (including ACCC, ASIC and Commissioner of Taxation)

• Castagna v R; Agius v R [2019] NSWCCA 114 (criminal law – tax fraud) (led by T Game SC and S White SC for the appellant Castagna)

• SafeWork NSW v Aptec Constructions Pty Limited [2019] NSWDC 229 (criminal law – workplace safety prosecution) (unled, for the offender)

• Deputy Commissioner of Taxation v Ausmart Services Pty Ltd [2018] FCA 1912; Deputy Commissioner of Taxation v Shi [2018] FCA 1915 (freezing orders and appointment of provisional liquidators – complex phoenix activity) (led by S White SC and P Afshar for the Applicant/Plaintiff)

• R v Young (criminal law – insolvent trading and fraud) (QCA, led by W Abraham QC for the Crown, judgment reserved)

• Williamtown and Surrounds Resident’s Action Group Incorporated v Independent Planning Commission of NSW & Williamtown Sand Syndicate Pty Ltd (LEC, led by N Kelly for the IPC, settled prior to hearing)

• Attorney General (NSW) v Gatsby; Attorney General (NSW) v Johnson [2018] NSWCA 254 (constitutional law, status of NCAT) (led by Solicitor General S Donohue SC and C Lenehan for the Commonwealth, intervening)

• SafeWork NSW v Phong Warehouse & Distributor Pty Ltd [2018] NSWDC 253 (criminal law – workplace safety prosecution) (unled, for the offender)

• Dehsabzi v Owners Corporation 83556 (equity, NSWSC, summarily dismissed) (led by G Sirtes SC for the defendant)

• Various Federal Circuit Court (employment law), Local Court and NCAT matters (Consumer and Commercial division and Appeal Panel)