Competitive salary on offer
- Down to earth, working environment with a social culture.
Our client is seeking a legal assistant to join the Real Estate team in the Brisbane office providing administrative support for a partner, several authors and a paralegal, with a large focus on leasing and commercial real estate.
**The Opportunity**
The successful applicant will be expected to demonstrate motivation, organisational skills, collaborative abilities, confidence, and autonomy to excel in this role within the high-performing team environment.
Your day-to-day responsibilities will be varied and will include:
- Diary Management and meeting coordination: Proactively managing schedules, appointments, and coordinating meetings for the team.
- Document drafting, amendment, and management: Using iManage for legal documents related to real estate transactions.
- Conducting property searches
- Trust account management
- Banking: handling banking tasks related to real estate transactions or trust accounts.
- High-volume file management.
- Collaboration: Working collaboratively with other legal assistants in the team and the broader office in Brisbane.
This is a permanent full-time opportunity with some flexibility available once you're settled into the role.
The standard hours are Monday to Friday, 8:30am - 5:00pm.
**Culture & Benefits**:
Current employees praise this firm for finding the right balance between professional and personal excellence. As an Australian firm with an international reach, professionals have access to world-class and high-profile matters in a 'local' environment that fosters relationships.
In addition to a competitive salary, employees are privy to a cache of professional development opportunities and training, a clear career pathway, mentor and mentee opportunities, wellness subsidies and initiatives.
**The Requirements**:
You must also demonstrate the following attributes:
- Someone who is self-motivated with the ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team environment;
- Confident handling multiple tasks simultaneously and used to working to tight deadlines;
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to liaise with internal and external parties;
- Strong attention to detail to ensure accuracy in document drafting and management;
Due to the volume of interest only successful applicants will be contacted directly.
Barratt Galvin is an Australian based legal recruitment business providing law firm resourcing solutions. Collectively, our consultants have over twenty year's experience placing legal professionals into law jobs locally and internationally.
Based in Sydney, we assist legal professionals looking for legal jobs within Australia, as well as those relocating to or returning from London and the Middle East legal markets.
Our core client base is made up of elite private practice legal teams within mid to top tier and international law firms. The legal jobs we recruit for include Lawyers, Legal Secretaries, EA/PA, HR, Business Development & Marketing and Office Support.
As recruitment experts in Australia, London and the Middle East we can assist you with your international or local legal job search. Barratt Galvin is focussed on providing you access to legal job opportunities that align with your career goals, at the best possible salary level within the market.