Entry Level Legal Admin Assistant

YHC Lawyers; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 28,000 - 34,000; Part time

Job summary

YHC Lawyers in Brisbane, Australia, seeks an entry-level paralegal for two to three days a week. The role includes routine admin tasks, receipts, document scanning, and email reminders with comprehensive training provided. The position is ideal for first- or second-year law students or individuals with minimal administration experience.

Start date is flexible, and the firm supports study commitments. Applicants should have a typing speed of at least 58 wpm and be eligible to work in Australia.

Qualifications

• Two essential requirements: typing speed of at least 58 words per minute and an appropriate Australian work visa or Australian citizenship.
• Ideally, you are or will be soon a first or second year law student.

Responsibilities

• Write receipts and check notices in e-newspapers.
• Send reminder emails to clients or colleagues.
• Scan documents and keep the office tidy.
• Comprehensive training and support: no prior experience required.
• Entry-level role suited to people with little or no administration experience.

Skills

Typing speed 58 wpm

Education

First or second year law student

Job description

Gain valuable experience in a law firm, build a solid legal foundation, and give your career a competitive edge. Our paralegals have emphasised the importance of having a job like this before graduation!

First and second-year students to apply! This role does not require completing special subjects at university.

What’s Involved?

Daily tasks include writing receipts, checking notices in e-newspapers, sending reminder emails, scanning documents and keeping the office tidy.

Comprehensive training and support: no prior experience is required; we'll teach you.

An entry-level role suited to people with little or no administration experience.

Availability & Commencement

Part-time and flexible: choose 2 or 3 days a week, reducing to 1 during exams.

Start immediately or in a few weeks. We will work with you to determine the actual start date.

About Us

We are a Wills and Estates Law Firm. We help people navigate the legal complexities around estate planning and estate administration.

We hire people who love precision, improvement, and learning. And we’re serious about giving juniors the kind of experience that builds real careers.

We have been recognised by our peers in the Best Lawyers publication. Our firm has also been named in the Doyle's Guide as a Leading Law Firm for seven consecutive years.

Part of that recognition is due to our belief in custom solutions for our clients and ourselves; so much so that we wrote our own software which powers our practice.

While each of our directors has been in practice for 20-plus years, we still believe there’s plenty to learn and heaps of room to improve. We push ourselves so that we are always striving to be better than what we were yesterday.

For fun, we created this little behind-the-scenes clip on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SmLtgywUMJw

Oh! And we like movies, tv shows and board games.

Eligibility & Ideals

You need to have two things:

1. a typing speed of at least 58 words per minute;

2. an appropriate Australian work visa or Australian citizenship.

Ideally, you are or will be soon, a first or second year law student.

Closing Date

5:00PM 27 November 2026.

If we fulfill the position before the application closing date, we will remove this ad.

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