Join Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Australia's leading independent law firm.
We have an opportunity for a Senior Associate to join our Employment, Labour & Safety team in Sydney. The role will involve working closely with Stephen Price, Partner, and the broader national practice, advising on a wide range of complex employment and workplace relations matters.
This is an ideal role for a lawyer with 4+ years' PQE, gained in Australia or overseas (all Commonwealth jurisdictions considered). You would work with our expert Employment, Labour & Safety team to provide practical, strategic, and forward-looking advice to clients on the workplace issues that can arise at every stage of the employment relationship. Our team are trusted advisers to major Australian and multinational employers in both the private and public sectors and also act for Australian labour law regulators and state governments. This enables us to offer our clients both commercial legal advice and insight into the latest developments in employment and industrial law.
This exciting and dynamic team environment requires you to be commercially minded, with excellent analytical, drafting, and client management skills and the ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively in a high performing environment.
At Corrs, we help you achieve your ambition - at every stage of your career.
About us
Corrs Chambers Westgarth is Australia's leading independent law firm. We provide exceptional legal services across the full spectrum of matters, including major transactions, projects and significant disputes, offering strategic advice on our clients' most challenging issues.
Corrs' culture is characterised by our values of excellence, commitment, collaboration and respect. Our policies, practices and behaviours foster a supportive and inclusive workplace, and we are focused on creating opportunities for our people and supporting a diverse workforce.
Benefits
* Flexible working as standard – we have established flexibility as standard business practice and an option for all our people.
* Bonus leave – we provide an additional week of leave each year (5 weeks annual leave in total)
* Parental leave – we offer 26 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave and pay superannuation on both paid and unpaid leave (up to 12 months)
* Wellbeing program – we support the wellbeing of our people across areas including resilience, mindfulness, personal development, physical health and self-care.
* Diversity and Inclusion – we set meaningful goals and take action to improve diversity and foster an inclusive culture in which all employees feel supported and valued.
* Responsible business approach – we have an active pro bono and community engagement program and we are a member of the United Nations Global Compact. We are also a member of AusLSA, which works to promote and increase sustainable practices across the legal sector.
* Learning and development opportunities – including our Australian-first international study scholarship, a national training program and mentoring initiative.
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