Owing to the Balfour Meagher's continued growth and reputation, we're seeking another excellent Senior Property Lawyer to join our already amazing team of experienced lawyers.
Whether you are:
a) a front-facing lawyer who enjoys engaging directly with clients, referrers and business partners; and/or
b) a support lawyer who more prefers to work in the background, assisting team lawyers and clients, reviewing & drafting documents, providing advice & the like,
we have the role for you!
You will have demonstrated experience in advising, reviewing, drafting and transacting/conveying on various matters across property and/or estate areas (Balfour Meagher is a full-service, contemporary commercial & corporate law firm, of which a substantial portion of work regularly involves a high-level property and estate matters).
About you:
* You seek a modern workplace which puts Courtesy, Manners & Respect foremost for yourself, your colleagues, clients and our business partners.
* Minimum 5 years+ post-admission's experience in either, property, estate planning or commercial several of those areas.
* Current demonstrable Western Australian legal experience and are also practising/located in WA.
* Self-sufficient and autonomous (e.g. at least computer literate with Microsoft Office365 and modern electronic legal practice management systems).
* You strive for excellence in client service; including in any face-to-face meetings, online, telephone as well as contemporary, written communication skills.
* Relishes regular collegiate conferrals & mentoring as well as practical legal/contemporary business skills' development - working with only experienced, senior lawyers and directors.
* Perhaps looking for a different yet more fulfilling professional pace; including a much better & more flexible approach than larger and older-style firms allow (require...).
About the position
You will be working on and regularly exposed to a large range of various, interesting and often complex/challenging:
* Property and leasing matters - all areas of advisory & due diligence, reviews & bespoke drafting of sale/purchase of land contracts (including special conditions, vendor financing arrangements etc), vesting from family and unit trust, SMSF property purchases (including LRBAs) conveyancing/settlements and PEXA-trained, mortgages & securitisation work, property development; leasing including commercial, industrial, agribusiness.
* Estate matters (simple to very complex estate planning and administration dealing with Wills (including testamentary trusts, protective trusts etc), family/discretionary trust succession, SMSFs (including preparation of auto-reversionary pensions and binding death benefit nominations); additional related entities succession structuring in consultation with leading accounting, taxation and financial advisors; probate and letters of administration matters).
* Commercial matters (including interesting and diverse contract reviews and negotiations, bespoke drafting of contracts, agreements & deeds).
About us and your role in our team:
* Commitment to excellence in service, documentation and advice.
* State-of-the-art computers, technologies, documentation as well as phenomenal office administration support.
* Regular and wide-ranging in-house, as well as external, CPD training (+ additional, elective CPDs and other well exceeding the professional development training minimum LPBWA requirements).
* Hybrid workplace - with WFH by default (with full home-office set-up; including laptop and home printer/scanner etc) yet also with daily contact and regular in-person, individual as well as team catch-ups, plus off-site client and referral partner meetings; includes also paid-for office parking.
* Collaborative and collegiate workplace, where true work/life balance - manners, courtesy and mutual respect are all paramount
* Excellent, continuous range of interesting new and regular clients as well as a massive, longstanding referral network.
* Direct, client-facing work with autonomy, while being fully supported by the directors and colleagues.
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