Junior to Intermediate Employment Lawyer | Specialist Firm
Enjoy broad exposure to employment, industrial relations and WHS matters, a highly competitive salary, balanced billable expectations and genuine, merit-based career progression.
Why This Firm?
This is highly regarded specialist firm is known for delivering high-quality, pragmatic advice, while maintaining a genuinely collaborative and supportive team culture.
With a strong reputation in the market and a clear commitment to developing its lawyers, this is an outstanding opportunity to build a long-term career in a specialist practice.
The Role
This opportunity suits a junior to intermediate Employment Lawyer or Associate who enjoys hands-on client work, exposure to varied and complex matters, and working closely with highly experienced senior practitioners.
Your work will include:
* Employment claims, workplace investigations and employee management matters
* Employment contracts, policy reviews, compliance and post-employment restraints
* Award interpretation and underpayment issues
* Strategic IR advice, enterprise bargaining and union engagement
* Right of entry matters and dispute management
* WHS incident response, investigations, enforcement action and workers' compensation matters
Experience in IR and WHS is highly regarded but not essential.
Clients You will work with a broad and impressive client base across Australia and internationally, including listed entities, multinational organisations and SMEs. The role offers exposure to both high-level strategic advice and practical, day-to-day advisory work, providing excellent breadth of experience.
About You
You will be a confident, motivated and client-focused lawyer who enjoys both autonomy and collaboration. Ideally, you will have:
* A minimum of 1 year PAE in employment law (IR/WHS experience advantageous)
* Strong technical, drafting and analytical skills
* Excellent communication skills and a practical approach to client service
* The ability to thrive in a supportive, high-performing team environment
Why Join? This is more than just a job, it's an opportunity to grow your career in a flexible, collegiate and high-quality specialist practice.
Benefits include:
* Highly competitive salary package reflecting experience and contribution (this firm pays exceptionally well) $$$
* Balanced and realistic billable expectations
* Structured morning check-ins to support collaboration and alignment
* Clear, merit-based progression and recognition
* Exposure to a diverse client base, from SMEs to global organisations
* Opportunities to work from the firm's Sydney office
* Inclusive, collaborative culture with regular mentoring and knowledge-sharing
Next Steps
Explore new opportunities, applying now quoting reference: EL020126 and forward your Professional Profile to:
Georgina See – ; or
Trudy Reading –
Even if this role isn't the perfect fit, Law Staff manages a range of unadvertised private practice and in-house opportunities and would be pleased to discuss other options with you.
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