Benefits
This leading national law firm supports your career development while ensuring you enjoy a balanced and healthy lifestyle. The firm offers a comprehensive benefits program including but not limited to:
* Competitive remuneration with performance-based bonuses
* Employee Share Plan for senior lawyers
* Regular Employee Awards recognising performance
* Milestone anniversary gifts
* Paid employee education assistance and structured professional development programs
* Secondment and international opportunities
* Mentoring and sponsorship pathways to partnership
* Flexible working arrangements
* Free flu vaccinations and access to discounted health insurance
* Provision of fresh fruit, Employee Assistance Program, and Wellbeing Champions/Mental Health First Aid officers
* Weekly coffee mornings, networking drinks, morning teas, and social/sporting activities
* Participation in Diversity Action Networks and meaningful pro bono opportunities
* Purchased leave (up to 10 days/year) and paid study leave
* Up to 26 weeks paid parental leave (including superannuation)
* Employee referral program
* Opportunities to work with leading foreign law firms on cross-border matters
* Access to employee-led networks.
About the Role & Team
This is a growth role for a Senior Associate (5+ PQE) based in Brisbane, joining a nationally dispersed Employment & Industrial Relations team with colleagues situated in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. The practice advises on sensitive, high-profile, and complex employment, industrial relations, and workplace health & safety matters, including enterprise bargaining strategy, workplace investigations, whistleblower matters, and crisis response. Acting for major corporates, multinational clients, and government entities, the team delivers strategic, commercially-focused advice across advisory work, disputes and corporate transactions.
Responsibilities
* Advising on industrial relations, employment disputes, and enterprise agreements
* Managing unfair dismissal, general protections, and other employment claims
* Conducting workplace investigations and provide strategic, risk‐based advice
* Drafting and negotiating contracts, policies, and employee‐related documents
* Supporting corporate transactions, restructures, and outsourcing from an employment perspective
* Advising on executive employment, post‐employment restraints, and compliance issues
* Appearing before the Fair Work Commission and assisting on Federal/State Court matters
* Delivering workplace learning, management training, and WHS incident response guidance.
This blended role provides direct client exposure, meaningful responsibility, and opportunities across both advisory and litigation work. The firm supports low daily targets, no rigid budgets, and a healthy work‐life balance, with typical business hours of 8:30am – 5:30/6:00pm.
What You'll Bring
* 5+ years' PQE in employment and industrial relations law
* Experience in private practice, government, or advisory firms
* Strong commercial awareness and ability to deliver pragmatic advice
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
* A collaborative, proactive, and energetic approach to work.
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