Partner – Family Law

ALRA | Australia's Leading Recruitment Agency; Sydney; On-site; AUD 300,000 - 460,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity after two years

National platform resources

Job summary

ALRA | Australia's Leading Recruitment Agency is seeking a Founding Partner to establish and lead a Family Law practice in Sydney. You will build your own team, shape culture, and leverage a national platform to grow locally.

The role offers equity after two years, a competitive salary, and a bonus structure, with support from a national firm. It is a unique opportunity to lead rather than fit into an existing hierarchy.

Qualifications

• Founding Partner to lead Family Law in a CBD office.
• Demonstrated ability to build and shape a team under a national framework.
• High level business development for growth and partnership creation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Family Law practice and build the team in Sydney.
• Set culture, strategy and reputation for the practice.
• Drive equity-based rewards and a performance-driven environment.

Skills

Leadership

Family Law

Business development

Job description

Lead with genuine autonomy, interstate support, and a proven national platform – minus the bureaucracy and politics.

• Founding Partner role to lead Family Law in a growing CBD office
• Shape your own team and culture, backed by national firm resources
• Competitive salary, bonus structure, and equity after two years

A high-performing national firm – already home to a dozen successful family lawyer’s interstate – is now looking to establish its Sydney presence in Family Law. The city’s office has real depth in commercial work: property, insurance, insolvency and corporate. The missing piece is family law, and the firm is seeking a leader to fill it.

This role is not about slotting into an existing hierarchy. It is about founding something. Building a team in your own image, with the strength of national resources behind you. The culture you set will be the culture that endures.

What makes this opportunity distinctive is the clarity of its offering:

• Equity after two years, with a lucrative bonus structure along the way.
• A practical, achievable threshold for partnership – where ability counts for more than politics.
• The support of a national platform – allowing work to be shared across states while you grow your local practice.
• The freedom of leadership – setting the tone, the strategy, and the reputation of the team you build.

It comes down to this: the firm does not simply want a lawyer. It wants a leader. Someone whose ambition is matched by judgment, whose skill is matched by character.

If your career has reached the point where you are ready to lead rather than follow, this role offers the foundation – and the freedom – to do it.