Employment Paralegal

LEAP Legal Software; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing day

Gym membership

Dental plan

Weekly massages

Catered lunch & breakfast

On-site barista

LEAP Home program

Job summary

LEAP is seeking a Forms Designer to join the Employment Law team, focusing on up-to-date, fully automated forms and precedents for employment matters. You’ll be part of a cross-functional group of legal professionals and software engineers, contributing to practical, compliant documentation used by employment lawyers.

You’ll work under supervision to transition into the role, leveraging your experience with legal documents and your interest in technology.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years’ experience supporting a legal practice.
• Strong Microsoft Word skills and an enjoyment of formatting and working with documents.
• Familiarity with legal documents through preparing, formatting, proofreading, filing or supporting their use in practice.
• An understanding of the parties, information and processes involved in legal matters.
• An interest in technology and an enthusiasm for learning new systems and developing technical skills.

Responsibilities

• Create, update and maintain automated employment law forms and precedents.
• Research official forms and procedural information, working with the team’s legal specialists to understand and implement required updates.
• Format and proofread documents to maintain accuracy, consistency and professional presentation.
• Use LEAP’s automation tools to populate documents with information recorded in legal matters.
• Review feedback from clients and colleagues, investigate issues and contribute to improvements.
• Learn to use JavaScript to support dynamic document content and automation, with training provided.
• Test automated documents, including data fields, conditional content and formatting, and resolve issues with support from the team.
• Collaborate with clients and internal teams to improve employment law content and matter types.
• Share knowledge and support colleagues across our Content teams.

Job description

About LEAP

LEAP is the leading provider of Legal Practice Management Solutions in the world and is part of ATI – one of the largest internationalLegalTechcompanies. For more than 30 years, our curiosity and commitment to continual improvementhaskept us reimagining productivity tools for lawyers and their staff to support our guiding purpose, to ‘Help lawyers who help people’. The market‑leading software wedevelopand support is used by more than 71,000 lawyers and their staff in small and medium‑sized law firms.

Working alongside our international team of passionate high achievers,you’lljoin a fast-growing technology business where things seldom stay the same for long. With more than 1000 smart, caring and ambitious ‘LEAPsters’ working together across Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom,the Republic of Ireland,Polandand New Zealand,you’llfind yourself in good company here.

Meet the Employment Law team

The Employment Law teamis a specialist division within LEAP, focused on building software foremploymentlawyers.We’rea cross‑functional team of legal professionals, software engineers, designers, and client‑focused specialists, working closely together to deliver practical productsused every day by law firms practising in employment law.

Our work is guided by in‑house lawyers and informed by a well‑established client feedback function, ensuring our products are shaped by real legal practice and continue to evolve in line with how lawyersactually work.

You’lljoin asthe Employment Law team’s new Forms Designer,helping to ensure our legal forms and precedents are always current,compliantand legallyappropriate.You’lluse your experience working with legal documents to help create andmaintainautomated forms and precedents that makeeverydaywork easier for employment lawyers.

What you'll do

Legislation can change regularly, along with legal forms. The efficiency we offer our clients relies on up‑to‑date content, with legal forms at the forefront.You’llput your passion for Microsoft Word to work, ensuring your portfolio of legal forms and precedents is up to date with legislation, fully automated and ready for our clients to use.

You’llreceive a structured training program and ongoing guidance from the Content Manager and content specialists to help you transition into the role and build confidence using our content and automation tools.You’lluse these tools tomaintainour comprehensive library of legal content, helping law firms manage matters effectively and produce legal documentation quickly and consistently.

With training and support, you will:

• Create, update and maintain automated employment law forms and precedents.

• Research official forms and procedural information, working with the team’s legal specialists to understand and implement required updates.

• Format and proofread documents tomaintainaccuracy,consistencyand professional presentation.

• Use LEAP’s automation tools to populate documents with information recorded in legal matters.

• Review feedback from clients and colleagues, investigateissuesand contribute to improvements.

• Learn to use JavaScript to support dynamic document content and automation, with training provided.

• Test automated documents, including data fields, conditionalcontentand formatting, and resolve issues with support from the team.

• Collaborate with clients and internal teams to improve employment law content and matter types.

• Share knowledge and support colleagues across our Content teams.

What you'll bring

You may be a legal secretary or paralegal looking to apply your experience in a SaaS business.

We’relooking for:

• 3-5 years’ experience supporting a legal practice.

• Strong Microsoft Word skills and an enjoyment of formatting and working with documents.

• Familiarity with legal documents through preparing, formatting, proofreading,filingor supporting their use in practice.

• An understanding of the parties, information and processes involved in legal matters.

• An interest in technology and an enthusiasm for learning new systems and developing technical skills.

The following would be highly regarded:

• Experience supporting an employment or workplace law practice.

• Familiarity with Fair Work Commission forms and processes.

• Familiarity with employment contracts, workplace policies, correspondence, settlement documents, and court or tribunal forms.

• Experience using LEAP, other legal practice managementsoftwareor document automation tools.

LEAP is an inclusive, people‑first company committed to breaking down institutional barriers that keep people from reaching their potential.

Why join LEAP?

• Your work matters. Helping lawyers help people sits at the heart of everything we do. We solve real world problems that improve and support local, everyday law firms. So they can do their best work for the people in the communities they serve.

• Make an impact. You won’t be another ‘cog in the wheel’ here. We give full trust and autonomy for you to be heard, to work on big & complex projects – and to make a real difference.

• Work with a group of authentic, passionate people who love what they do.

• Flexible and hybrid working. We'd like to find this person in Sydney, but we want you to work in a way that suits you and we're open to flexible arrangements that support you.

• Grow your career with us. Our founder Christian Beck has been building legal tech businesses for over 30 years. There are opportunities galore to expand your career based on where your interests lie. We're not afraid to pivot based on market conditions - you will always have the opportunity to stay ahead of the curve and do your best work here.

• Have fun with us. Celebrations. Socials. Sports teams. Access to sailing and yacht events.

• We value your well-being - enjoy an additional paid wellbeing day every year, free gym membership, corporate dental plan and weekly massages in the office.

• Work in a new, beautiful office space – with a catered lunch and breakfast every week, fully stocked kitchen and an on‑site barista.

• Access to LEAP Home - a program unique to LEAP to support you in buying your primary residence.