Sam Dany

About Sam Dany

Sam Dany is an intellectual property barrister who also takes general commercial and employment briefs. He was admitted to practice on 22 October 2024 and signed the Victorian Bar roll on 10 April 2025. His clerk’s profile says that before coming to the Bar he worked at an international law firm on high-profile litigation, and Emmerson Chambers describes that earlier work as complex IP litigation covering copyright, breach of confidence, misleading and deceptive conduct and trade mark infringement.

Reading and mentoring. He read with Peter Creighton-Selvay SC, and Peter Wallis KC is his senior mentor at the Bar. In May 2025 Emmerson Chambers, which describes itself as a Melbourne floor of intellectual property barristers, announced him as a new reader. He is clerked by Meldrum’s List.

Education. Bachelor of Laws with first-class honours and Bachelor of Arts, University of Queensland.

Professional activity. He facilitated a session on assessing damages for infringement of IP rights at the 38th annual conference of the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand (IPSANZ) in 2025, where the program listed him as a barrister at Emmerson Chambers.

• Victorian Bar 2025 Signed the Bar roll on 10 April 2025.
• IP floor Practises from Emmerson Chambers, a Melbourne intellectual property floor.
• Full IP practice Trade marks, patents, copyright, designs and confidential information.
• Commercial and employment Restraints of trade, consumer law and contract disputes.
• First-class honours LLB (Hons I) from the University of Queensland.

What Sam Dany handles

His Victorian Bar profile lists practice categories of commercial, industrial and employment, and intellectual property. His clerk’s profile describes the work in more detail:

• Intellectual property: trade marks, patents, copyright, designs and confidential information, including infringement, opposition and licensing matters
• Restraint of trade and other employment disputes
• Competition and consumer law, including misleading and deceptive conduct
• Contractual and general commercial disputes

He appears in the Federal Court, state courts and tribunals, and before IP Australia. His clerk’s profile lists recent trade mark, passing-off, copyright, confidential-information and employment matters in the Federal Court, the Federal Circuit and Family Court, the Fair Work Commission and the Trade Marks Office, some led by senior counsel and some unled.

How a barrister is engaged. Barristers in Victoria are sole practitioners. They are ordinarily briefed by a solicitor rather than retained directly by a client, and their availability and fees are arranged through their clerk.

Sources: his Victorian Bar profile (practice categories, reviewed 24 September 2026) and his Meldrum’s List profile (reviewed 24 September 2026). Practice descriptions are supplied by the barrister and are not independently verified by the Victorian Bar, his clerk or this site. We do not list individual cases or clients.

Rankings

We searched Doyle’s Guide’s 2025 and 2026 lists of leading Victorian intellectual property junior counsel and did not find him listed. He signed the Bar roll in 2025, and Doyle’s ranks a small share of the Bar, junior barristers in particular, so absence from its lists is not a finding about a barrister’s work.

Register details

Sam Dany is listed on the Victorian register of lawyers kept by the Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner. The entry below is reproduced as it appeared on 24 September 2026.

• Name on the registerSamuel Dany
• Practising certificate typeBarrister
• Practising atSamuel Dany
• AddressMELBOURNE VIC 3000
• Areas of practiceAdvocacy, Civil Litigation, Commercial Law, Employment/Industrial Law, Intellectual Property, Trade Practices Law
• Accredited specialisationsNot applicable
• LanguagesNot applicable

The register records him as Samuel Dany. Barristers in Victoria are sole practitioners, which is why the “practising at” field shows his own name rather than a firm, and why accredited specialisation is recorded as not applicable — the Law Institute of Victoria specialist accreditation scheme is for solicitors.

How to engage him

Contact his clerk, Meldrum’s List, on 03 9225 7170 about availability. His Meldrum’s profile gives his chambers as Level 20, 200 Queen Street, Melbourne; his Victorian Bar profile shows an older Owen Dixon Chambers East address. Barristers are normally briefed by a solicitor. If you do not yet have one, our matching service can put your matter in front of an intellectual property lawyer who can then brief counsel if your matter needs it.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Sam Dany?

Sam Dany is a barrister at the Victorian Bar in Melbourne practising mainly in intellectual property, with general commercial and employment work. He signed the Bar roll in April 2025, practises from Emmerson Chambers and is clerked by Meldrum’s List.

Is Sam Dany the same person as Samuel Dany?

Yes. The Victorian register of lawyers lists him as Samuel Dany, a barrister practising in Melbourne; the Victorian Bar and his clerk list him as Sam Dany. The register shows no other Victorian lawyer of that name.

What does Sam Dany specialise in?

Intellectual property: trade marks, patents, copyright, designs and confidential information. He also takes restraint of trade and other employment matters, competition and consumer law, and contractual disputes, appearing in the Federal Court, state courts and tribunals and before IP Australia.

When did Sam Dany become a barrister?

He was admitted on 22 October 2024 and signed the Victorian Bar roll on 10 April 2025. He read with Peter Creighton-Selvay SC.

How do I brief Sam Dany?

Through his clerk, Meldrum’s List, on 03 9225 7170. Barristers are ordinarily briefed by a solicitor, so a member of the public would usually engage a lawyer first.