Lawyers/Associates – Probity

Buscojobs; New South Wales; On-site; AUD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking talented Lawyers / Associates with 2-5 years of experience to join their high-performing Public Law - Probity team. This role offers the chance to provide critical legal advice to government clients on complex, nation-building projects. The ideal candidate will possess strong emotional intelligence, excellent drafting skills, and a collaborative spirit. If you are ready to contribute to impactful work in a fast-paced environment, this is the opportunity for you. Join a firm that values operational excellence and employee experience!

Qualifications

• 2-5 years' experience as a lawyer working with government clients.
• Strong attention to detail and sound technical legal drafting skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide pragmatic, solutions-focused commercial advice to government agencies.
• Support partners in building and maintaining a strong team environment.

Skills

Contracting

Procurement

Grant experience

Emotional intelligence

Interpersonal skills

Legal drafting

Statutory interpretation

Team collaboration

Job description

We are a modern Australian law firm with a leading reputation. We focus on exceptional service, operational excellence and being at the forefront of employee experience. We work closely with Australian and international businesses, organisations and governments.

About the role

We are currently looking for Lawyers / Associates (2-5 years PQE) to join our growing and high-performing Public Law - Probity team led by Partners Simonetta Astolfi and Sunny Leow. The team is based in both Melbourne and Canberra so we are keen to hear from lawyers in either location.

The work involves providing pragmatic, solutions-focused commercial advice, governance advice, contract drafting, procurement, grants and probity advice to Commonwealth Government agencies (including at senior levels), to work collaboratively with other lawyers and our clients, and generally support the Partners build and maintain a strong team environment. You will have the opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment on a variety of complex, sensitive, interesting and nation-building projects. Things are never dull in this team!

About you

Ideally you will have experience advising clients and helping solve problems and enjoy working collaboratively and contributing to a team environment. You should bring a sense of openness to learning new skills, and you will bring a level of common sense, emotional intelligence and pragmatism to your practice of the law. You should be able to understand the ‘big picture’, as well as having strong attention to detail and sound technical legal drafting and statutory interpretation skills.

You will also have the following skills and experience :

• 2-5+ years’ experience as a lawyer working with government clients
• Contracting, procurement and / or grant experience
• An understanding of probity, integrity in the public sector, and governance principles
• General legal experience (whether that’s in dispute resolution, commercial law, administrative law, general public law)
• Strong emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills
• Experience working collaboratively in a team environment
• A keenness to learn

To be eligible for this role you must be an Australian citizen or eligible for Australian citizenship due to the nature of government work.

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