Overview
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The role requires a detail-oriented, organised, and proactive individual with a strong sense of responsibility and excellent time management skills. The ideal candidate will juggle multiple tasks and deadlines with accuracy. Experience in billing, matter administration, or accounting is a plus, but a positive attitude and the ability to learn quickly are essential.
Responsibilities
- Billing & Matter Administration: Overseeing monthly billing processes, scanning and processing receipts, and opening/closing matters.
- Matter Management: Coordinating the team’s workload to ensure deadlines are met and tasks are completed on time.
- Time Entries & Expense Reconciliation: Handling time entries, reconciling expenses, processing third-party invoices, and providing regular reporting.
- Internal Accounts Communication: Collaborating with internal accounts teams to manage trust allocations, trust-to-office payments, and addressing bill reversals or credit notes.
- Cost Consultant Support: Compiling invoices and spreadsheets for cost consultants to facilitate accurate and timely reporting.
- Document Preparation: Drafting letters, contracts, and general correspondence with attention to detail.
- Administrative Duties: Providing general administrative support, including document management, travel arrangements, processing of credit card transactions, and filing (both hard and soft copy).
About You
- Experience in providing admin support within a commercial disputes and litigation team.
- Finance experience with end-of-month billing, funds manager accounts, and financial matter management from an admin perspective.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
- A proactive and collaborative approach to work.
- Exceptional time management skills and the ability to manage priorities.
- Demonstrated ability to work with legal staff and clients.
- Strong initiative and problem-solving ability.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and a commitment to excellence in customer service.
- A team player who brings a positive personality to the office.
Our Team
Our high performing, collegiate Dispute Resolution and Litigation team in Brisbane seeks a driven individual with commercial litigation experience to play a senior role. This practice group has been described in The Legal 500 Asia as "A top performer in the corporate and commercial litigation space" with supervising Partners for this role being recognised in Best Lawyers in Australia, 2025 edition. The team offers opportunities to apply technical expertise to complex and challenging work, learn from experienced litigators, and supervise and develop junior lawyers.
About Us
Piper Alderman is a premier commercial law firm with offices in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Melbourne. We work with clients across Australia and internationally to achieve practical commercial outcomes, innovation in service delivery, and deep engagement across multiple industries. We promote a culture of excellence, collaboration and teamwork, investing in continued professional development.
Our Perks
- A variety of health and wellbeing initiatives including our Wellbeing Program.
- Learning and development opportunities to support career growth including generous study support options.
- Parental Leave policy offering up to 26 weeks paid leave.
- Automatic acceptance into the group Salary Continuance insurance plan.
- Purchased annual leave options.
- Employee-led Diversity & Inclusion and Reconciliation Committees and opportunities to participate in pro-bono work.
Apply Today
Piper Alderman is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We value diversity of thought and experience and aim to ensure all our people are valued and respected. Please submit an application via the link in this job advertisement. No applications will be accepted directly via email. For questions or further information about this prospect, please contact
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📌 Legal Assistant - Class Actions
🏢 Piper Alderman
📍 Brisbane City