Lawyer or Senior Lawyer

Social Compass Group; Horsham; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5 weeks annual leave

Gifted leave for Xmas closure

Salary packaging and competitive remun

Flexible environment to support work‑l

Job summary

Allied Justice is a for-purpose organisation delivering free legal assistance and community education across Western Victoria. The role involves managing a diverse caseload in family law and family violence, and providing duty lawyer services across Horsham, Stawell and Ararat.

You will engage in outreach, education and collaboration with stakeholders to improve access to justice in the region. You will be a lawyer with a commitment to social justice, holding an unrestricted practicing

Qualifications

• You are a lawyer with a commitment to social justice.
• Subject matter expertise in family law, family violence, victims of crime, or civil law.
• Ability to work within a trauma-informed framework.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a caseload of routine and complex legal matters.
• Provide family violence list duty lawyer services in Horsham, Stawell and Ararat.
• Conduct litigation files and participate in dispute resolution.
• Engage in legal outreach, education and community development.
• Develop and nurture stakeholder relationships to support outreach and referrals.
• Identify unmet legal needs and systemic barriers in the region.
• Contribute to law reform and system change initiatives to improve access to justice.

Skills

Communication skills

Independent worker

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Unrestricted practicing certificate or eligible to obtain one

Job description

Allied Justice is a for-purpose organisation providing free legal assistance, integrated services and community legal education across Western Victoria. They support people who experience deep and persistent disadvantage and those who often feel lost in complex systems, stuck in harmful relationships, or silenced by circumstance.

Guided by their values of respect, courage, empowerment and kindness, Allied Justice stand at the front line of these issues, working to change life stories through better access to justice.

As they embark on their 2025–2027 strategy, they are building a strong, contemporary legal practice that responds to the real needs of their communities.

What’s in it for you?

• 5 weeks annual leave
• Gifted leave for Xmas closure
• Salary packaging and competitive remuneration
• Flexible environment to support work-life balance

Your Impact

You will be responsible for providing legal assistance to clients in key practice areas including family law and family violence and civil. Specifically, you will:

• Maintain a caseload of routine and complex legal matters
• Provide family violence list duty lawyer services in Horsham, Stawell and Ararat
• Conduct litigation files and participate in dispute resolution
• Engage in legal outreach, education and community development helping to build legal capability and awareness
• Develop, collaborate, and nurture a wide range of stakeholder relationships to deliver outreach services and support referral pathways
• Identify unmet legal needs and systemic barriers in the region
• Contribute to Allied Justice law reform and system change initiatives to improve access to justice.

What you bring

You are a lawyer committed to social justice who has ideally worked within the legal assistance sector or a law firm. You have a naturally empathetic style and can communicate information in a sensitive manner when dealing with diverse clients with persisting disadvantages.

You also have:

• An unrestricted practicing certificate or are eligible to obtain one
• Subject matter expertise in family law, family violence, victims of crime, and/or civil law
• An understanding of working in a trauma-informed framework
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Highly effective stakeholder engagement and relationship building skills; an ability to build trust and collaboration with a cross section of the community and sector partners
• A current driver’s licence and own transport for travel around the region