Senior Associate - Commercial Litigation

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

Job summary

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP in Sydney is seeking a Senior Associate to join the disputes team. You will work on large-scale litigation, regulatory investigations, class actions, and Corporations Act disputes, with a focus on high-profile matters.

Ideally, you are highly motivated, with 5+ PQE, excellent drafting and communication skills, and a strong academic background. The firm supports flexible and hybrid work arrangements.

Qualifications

• 5+ PQE with progression in a disputes practice.
• Experience handling complex, high-profile litigation.
• Excellent drafting and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Handle large-scale, long-running litigation (banking, resources and finance).
• Lead or assist on financial regulatory investigations.
• Contribute to class actions and Corporations Act disputes.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal comms

Strong academic track record

Team collaboration

Job description

Senior Associate - Commercial Litigation

Norton Rose Fulbright is a global legal practice. We provide the world's pre-eminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. We have more than 4000 lawyers based in over 58 offices across Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.

Our global litigation and disputeslawyers advise many of the world’s largest corporations and financial institutions on complex, high-value and sensitive multijurisdictional disputes. With 50 offices across the globe, we have one of the largest disputes legal practices in the world, with significant experience resolving domestic and cross-border mandates, international arbitrations and investigations and enforcement for clients across all the key industry sectors including financial institutions; energy, infrastructure and resources; transport; technology; life sciences and healthcare; and consumer markets.

We are currently looking for a Senior Associate to join our disputes team, based in Sydney. Working with Ann Donohue and the wider disputes team, you will broadly be working on:

• Large scale, long running and complex litigation (banking, resources and finance)
• Financial regulatory investigations
• Class actions
• Corporations Act disputes

Requirements:

The successful candidate will be engaging, highly motivated with strong academics. You should also be able to demonstrate:

• 5+ PQE
• A strong desire to work on complex, high profile litigation
• Excellent written, drafting and verbal communication skills

Norton Rose Fulbright values diversity and strives to create an inclusive environment. We are proud that Norton Rose Fulbright in Australia has been recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) as well as a gold tier employer for LGBTI Inclusion through the Australian Workplace Equality Index. In 2025 we were re-accredited as a Family Inclusive Workplace and always encourage people to discuss flexible and hybrid work options with us.

We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates to apply.

Please be aware in the course of routine work some of our lawyers and teams can be exposed to details of trauma. The firm has controls in place including educational and psychological support. Our talent team can provide further details.