• ADR (Expert Determination, Adjudication, Early Neutral Evaluation)
• Arbitration
• Building, Construction and Engineering,
• Commercial Law
• Contract Disputes
• Corporations and Securities
• International Commercial Arbitration
• Mediation
• Trade Practices, Consumer Protection

Albert Monichino has a general commercial litigation practice in the Supreme and Federal Courts, and also in commercial arbitrations (both domestic and international). Particular matters include:

• Acting for a company and its directors in defamation proceedings – FEO v Pioneer Concrete (Vic) Pty Ltd [1999] VSCA 180.
• Acting for an employer whose business was wrongfully diverted by an employee – Capital Investments Corporation v Classic Trading Pty Ltd [2001] FCA 1385.
• Acting for Fluor Australia, Engineers, in arbitration proceedings brought by Anaconda Pty Ltd in respect of the alleged negligent design and construction of a mineral processing plant in Western Australia.  The arbitration was conducted between 2001 and 2004 before a panel of internationally renowned arbitrators.
• Acting for a borrower seeking to set aside several loan agreements on the grounds that they infringed the equitable doctrine of penalties – Yarra Capital Group Pty Ltd v Goldberg [2006] VSCA 109.
• Acting for an engineering company in a Contractual dispute involving questions of the proper construction of commercial contracts and conventional estoppel – PAN Orient Shipping Services Pty Ltd v Basell Australia Pty Ltd [2007] VSC 215.
• Acting for an investor seeking damages against a financial planner who recommended investments in Westpoint-related securities - Atkins v. Interprac Financial Planning Pty Ltd [2007] VSC 445

• Supreme Court - Commercial List Users' Committee
• Vice-President (Convenor) - Commercial Bar Association - Executive Committee
• Graded arbitrator and accredited as an advanced mediator
• Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia
• Senior Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.

• “Recent developments in expert evidence”, Lexis Nexis conference, 28 March 2007.
• “The construction of written commercial contracts – a confluence of approach” and “Rectification of written commercial contracts” , Leo Cussen Institute seminar, 30 March 2007.
• “The Preliminary Conference in International Commercial Arbitration”, presented in the Graduate Diploma Course on International Commercial Arbitration, UNSW, July 2007
• "Setting aside unjust securities", Legalwise seminar, Sydney, 30 November 2007