Partner - Family Law

Dare; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Dare, a leading Brisbane commercial law firm, invites applications for an experienced Family Law Partner or senior lawyer ready to step into partnership. You will join a firm with a robust platform and autonomy to grow your family law practice within a collaborative, commercially focused environment.

Key to success are an established reputation and portable work or referrer network, along with a capacity to build and manage a thriving practice with internal referrals and client development

Qualifications

• Established reputation with portable practice / referrer network.
• Strong relationship builders who are commercially minded.
• Technically strong practitioners with excellent client-management skills.
• Collaborative lawyers who want to contribute to the broader firm.

Responsibilities

• Complex property settlements.
• Acting for high-net-worth and business-owner clients.
• Divorce and separation.
• Spousal maintenance and child support.
• Domestic violence.
• Mediation and alternative dispute resolution.
• Complex family law negotiations and litigation.

Job description

Our client is a highly regarded commercial law firm with a strong market presence, quality clients and an excellent leadership group.

The firm offers senior lawyers a well-resourced platform, strong internal referral opportunities and the autonomy to build their practice within a collaborative and commercially minded environment.

The Opportunity

An excellent opportunity exists for an experienced Family Law Partner - or a senior family lawyer ready to step into partnership - to join the firm and further develop its well established family law offering.

This is not a "bring a huge book or don't apply" opportunity.

The firm is looking for someone with an established reputation and some portable work, client following or proven referrer network - a modest practice may be sufficient for the right candidate. What matters most is that you are capable of building from a strong platform and want to play a meaningful role in the future growth of the practice.

You'll have access to the firm's broader client base and referral networks while retaining significant autonomy over your own practice.

The Work

The practice will involve a broad range of sophisticated family law matters, including:

• Complex property settlements
• Acting for high-net-worth and business-owner clients
• Divorce and separation
• Spousal maintenance and child support
• Domestic violence
• Mediation and alternative dispute resolution
• Complex family law negotiations and litigation

About You

We would be interested in speaking with:

• Existing Family Law Partners
• Special Counsel / senior practitioners with the capability and ambition to step into partnership
• Lawyers with an established reputation and some degree of portable practice / referrer network
• Strong relationship builders who are commercially minded and comfortable developing their own practice
• Technically strong practitioners with excellent client-management skills
• Collaborative lawyers who want to contribute to the broader firm rather than operate in a silo

Why Apply?

• Genuine Partner-level opportunity
• A strong platform from which to grow your practice
• Modest portable practice may be sufficient - no requirement for an enormous book
• Access to internal referrals and an established client base
• High-quality firm infrastructure and support
• Collaborative and well-regarded leadership group
• Opportunity to shape and grow the family law practice over the longer term