The legal industry is small and Melbourne’s industrial relations club is even smaller.

Which brings us to the Australian Council of Trade Unions legal manager Trevor Clarke, who reached the mecca of employment law career goals with an appointment to the Fair Work Commission on Tuesday. At the same time, his partner Dina Tutungi was overseeing a workplace relations dumpster fire as chief executive of Slater + Gordon, thanks to a “fraudulent” all-staff email.