Lawyer | 1 year PAE

Et Al; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Et Al is a commercial, employment and litigation law firm based in Fitzroy, Melbourne. We’re looking for an enthusiastic first year lawyer to join our small team, working directly with our principals on a variety of matters.

You can be based entirely in our Brunswick Street office, or partly in office and partly at home. We value work/life balance, practical advice, and a supportive environment where you can get hands dirty and develop real-world skills.

Qualifications

• We are seeking a first-year lawyer with strong communication and commercial awareness.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with principals on a variety of matters.
• Multi-task in a small team and contribute to multiple files.
• Develop practical, real-world legal skills in a supportive environment.

Job description

Et Al is a commercial, employment and litigation law firm incorporating Atticus Lawyers and Sinclair + May. We're on the lookout for an enthusiastic and driven first year lawyer to join our small Fitzroy-based team.

About us.

Our clients are businesses who value clear, strategic advice and assistance – they don’t come to us for pontification, multi-page letters of advice or ‘it depends’. They come for clarity and direction, and to be understood.

We don’t take ourselves too seriously, but we do take our work seriously, and we respect that our clients do too.

We work from our bricks and mortar office in Fitzroy – mainly because we enjoy the company and actually like Going To Work. We'd like if you joined us, at least some of the time.

About the role.

This is a full time role, but we're open to reducing it to 4 days a week, because work/life balance is important. You can be based entirely in our Brunswick Street office, or partly in office, partly at home.

You will be working directly with our principals, and you must be comfortable multi-tasking and working in a small team. We will provide a welcoming, supportive work environment where you can get your hands dirty, and give you opportunities to work on lots of different and interesting matters.

About you.

For us, culture is pretty much everything. We believe in working hard, but we also believe in work/life balance, and about cultivating a comfortable work environment where we get the best from each other.

We appreciate that you are a first year lawyer and are still navigating your way through legal practice. We can teach you the real-world legal skills you will need and give you the kind of exposure that you'd never get in a large firm, but we can’t teach smarts or personality.

You must be sensible, friendly and switched on, with excellent communication skills. You must be able to think commercially and practically, and problem solve. You must be able to write.

One last thing.

In our experience, it's always best to be yourself, upfront. We want to know about you, in your own words.