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Rebekah Giles adds to her bulging workload

The lawyer has shown up on an arcane racing body created to negotiate revenue from Tabcorp.

Mark Di StefanoColumnist

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At the apex of the nation’s professional fixers, is there ever a lack of demand for services rendered by lawyer Rebekah Giles? She and a handful of others (including Melbourne’s Leon Zwier) are on speed dial from corporates, celebs and corporate celebs who need reputation help, or a rapid defamation notice drafted.

Take Taylor Auerbach, the steak-and-cocaine TV producer who went nuclear on the Seven network and rapist Bruce Lehrmann at a key moment in the latter’s defamation trial last year. Barrister Sue Chrysanthou was already representing former Ten presenter Lisa Wilkinson in her defence against Lehrmann, so it fell to Giles to front Justice Michael Lee on behalf of Auerbach.

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Mark Di Stefano is Rear Window columnist, based in the Sydney newsroom. He previously worked at BuzzFeed, the Financial Times and The Information before joining the Financial Review as a media and tech correspondent. Connect with Mark on Twitter. Email Mark at mark.distefano@afr.com

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