Solicitor · privacy & data protection
Principal & Managing Partner, Papillon Lawyers Pty Ltd · CPA
Melbourne, VIC
Matthew John Hodgkinson is a principal and solicitor at Papillon Lawyers Pty Ltd. His practice includes Australian privacy and data-protection law under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles, technology and information-governance work, and acting as fractional in-house counsel for businesses without their own legal team.
★★★★★ 5.0 average · 3 client reviews. Fewer than eight reviews, so under our published methodology this isn’t a smoothed index ranking yet — but the early feedback is uniformly strong.
One publicly visible example of his privacy work: Privaproof, a privacy-compliance kit for Australian real estate agencies, publicly credits Hodgkinson as the solicitor who reviews its core documents — the Privacy Policy, Collection Notice and Data-Breach Response Plan — before release, and states they are “kept current as the law changes” (source: privaproof.com.au/kit, last reviewed 14 July 2026). It’s an independent, checkable data point on the kind of work he does.
Papillon Lawyers Pty Ltd is an Australian law firm led by Matthew Hodgkinson as principal. The firm practises across privacy, data-protection, technology and information-governance law and acts as fractional in-house counsel for businesses.
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