The Perth Registry is seeking suitably qualified applicants to perform the Legal Case Manager (LCM) role. The LCM provides high-level legal and administrative support to registrars including in-court support and communicates with solicitors, counsel and litigants. The role will suit a person who is articulate, energetic and reliable with high-level attention to detail and excellent communication skills.
Position Overview
The Legal Case Manager position provides support to registrars that exercise delegated judicial powers and administrative power.
Broadly, the primary areas of registrar work for which support is required are as follows:
- Mediation and Case Management Support. This involves mediation and case management work done by registrars in support of matters within judges' dockets.
- Registrar Court work. This work involves the running of Corporations (FCA) and Bankruptcy (FCA and FCFCOA) lists, issuing of summonses for examination, return of documents in examinations and public examinations; Return of Subpoena lists and hearings (FCA); Small Claims list (FCFCOA) and Adverse Action lists (FCFCOA and FCA); special fixture interlocutory hearings.
- Other Registrar Work. This work includes the determination of costs (long form bills of costs estimates, confidential conferences, taxation of costs, remuneration assessments), duty work, eCourtroom substituted service applications, and other work (pro bono, tribunal support, external liaison).
Legal Case Managers will also assist with national tasks. Further details and specific examples of work to be undertaken by Legal Case Managers are set out below.
The key duties of the position include
Legal Case Managers provide support to the judicial registrar team, including:
Mediations and Case Management:
- Coordinating the management of proceedings the registrar is mediating or case managing, including liaising with parties, organising mediations and case management conferences, preparing correspondence, ensuring facilities are arranged in accordance with the requirements of each particular mediation and/or case management conference and ensuring that relevant case data on the Court's case management system is accurate and up to date.
Registrar Court work:
- Undertake preparatory work for the list, including liaising with parties, listing matters on the Court's case management system, undertaking all post Court work, including uploading orders and ensuring the Court's case management system accurately reflects outcomes.
- Assist with any preliminary work required for public examinations including attending the examination with the registrar as required and ensuring that outcomes and listing details are accurately recorded.
Other Registrar Work:
Costs
- Support the registrar with all aspects of the work, including the review of bills of costs to ensure they are ready to be estimated and taxed, prepare drafts of all estimate letters and prepare orders and certificates of taxation for the registrar to approve.
- Assist with the lump sum costs process including by drafting orders, recording outcomes and corresponding with parties as required.
eCourtroom - applications for substituted service and issue of summonses for examination
- Support the registrar with all aspects of the work, including liaising with parties, prepare draft orders for consideration by the Registrar and arranging public examinations.
Other duties as required.
- Undertake the co-ordination of pro-bono work.
- Diary and in-box management for registrars as well as management of the registrars' calendar and any travel arrangements.
- Ability to be deployed to Registry or Chambers as required.