Simon Creek | Leadership Group | Executive Chairman & Nationally Accredited Mediator

As Executive Chairman of HHG Legal Group, Simon’s focus is on firm growth, leading the firm’s charitable and community work through HHG Giving Back, growing the firm’s mediation, family law, agribusiness and other practices, special projects, and his media and complementary business/’passion project’ roles in automotive, real estate and horology.

Since being admitted to practice in 1998, Simon’s impressive career has been consistently celebrated. In 2017 he was named Western Australia Lawyer of the Year by the Law Society of WA. In the same week, HHG received the Attorney General’s Community Service Law Award, largely due to Simon’s creation of HHG Giving Back, the charitable arm of HHG Legal Group. Simon has also been an Australian Law Award and Australasian Law Award finalist two years in a row, receiving runner-up for the 2015 and 2016 Managing Partner/Director of the Year and Legal Innovator of the Year awards.

In 2008, Simon won a 40Under40 Business News Award, in part for his role in growing HHG Legal Group from eight staff members to fifty in four years.  From there, Simon led HHG to either win – or be runner up – for 14 state and national awards including the Rising Stars award in 2010. In 2016 Simon became a Nationally Accredited Mediator, allowing him to extend his services to all levels of alternate dispute resolution. Simon is happy to mediate any type of dispute, with or without the parties having legal representation.

Highly regarded by the legal industry, Simon was elected to The Legal Practice Board of Western Australia in 2011 and re-elected in 2013. He sat on the 2010/11 Council of the Law Society of Western Australia, and is a member of the Law Council of Australia and the Family Law Practitioners Association of WA. He is also a founding member of Collaborative Professionals (WA), a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Notaries, a past member of the Brief editorial committee of the Law Society of Western Australia, and a Member of the AICD. Simon has been published in numerous professional publications and presented at various conferences including for the Australian Property Institute, Rotary International, Primerus and LexisNexis.

He is the past Editor of several chapters in Halsbury’s Laws of Australia and regularly presents to boards, banks, NFPs, accounting firms and financial planners.

Awards

• ‘Best Lawyers’ 2023, Family Law ‘Lawyer of the Year’ (WA);
• Australasian Law Awards State/Regional Law Firm, 2023
•  Power 500 (one of WA’s most influential leaders), Business News 2022
• Australasian Lawyer Employer of Choice, 2021
• ‘Best Lawyers’, peer recognised, Family Law, 2019-2024;
• Leader of HHG as a winner of the WA Australasian Law Award for Excellence, 2020;
• ‘Pro Bono Hero’, awarded by the Law Society of WA, 2019, 2020;
• Sole WA finalist, Law Firm Leader of the Year, Australasian Law Awards, 2018, 2019;
• Sole WA finalist, OPTUS business awards, 2018;
• Doyle’s Guide peer recognised for Family Law – 2018
• ‘Lawyer of the Year’, Law Society of WA, 2017/18;
• WABN Rising Stars Award – 2010
• WABN 40 under 40 Business Achievers Award – 2008

Media

Regular legal commentator on – 6PR, Channel 9, Channel 7, Channel 10, Sky News, The Project, Sonshine FM

Boards

Chairman, HHG Giving Back

Member, The Salvation Army Advisory Board

Qualifications

• The University of Western Australia – Bachelor of Arts (political science major), 1991-1994;
• The University of Western Australia – Bachelor of Laws, 1995-1997;
• National Mediation Accreditation, AIFLAM, 2016;
• Notary Public, 2004

Membership

• Legal Practice Board
• Fellow of the Australia New Zealand Council of Notaries
• Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
• Member of the Family Law Practitioners of Western Australia
• Member of Law Council
• Member of Rotary International