Senior Lawyer: Strategic Litigation & Advisory Lead

Department of Justice, Queensland; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Department of Justice, Queensland in Brisbane seeks a senior legal practitioner to apply advanced competencies across litigation, legal drafting and advisory work.

You will lead complex cases, manage client relationships, ensure ethical governance and contribute to practice management improvements within Crown Law.

The role involves strategic advice on urgent issues, reviewing external inputs, and mentoring junior lawyers to uphold high standards of service to the Queensland community.

Qualifications

• Litigation experience across complex/sensitive matters.
• Strategic legal advice and risk assessment.
• Drafting and settling significant documents.
• Statutory interpretation and analysis.
• Leading research tasks and presenting results.
• Managing key client accounts and negotiations.
• Mentoring staff and improving practice processes.

Responsibilities

• Conduct litigation strategies in complex and/or sensitive matters within discipline.
• Represent clients in mediations or hearings for significant disputes.
• Use a wide range of highly developed litigation skills to prepare and present submissions in complex cases.
• Provide guidance on issues of advocacy, conduct, ethics and etiquette.
• Provide strategic advice on significant or urgent issues that require substantial professional judgement within the boundaries of broad guidelines.
• Manage and review advice from external providers.
• Independently identify and advise on potential legal risks and their strategic, commercial and policy implications.
• Draft and settle significant or high-value documents.
• Resolve complex issues of drafting interpretation, with guidance available as required.
• Review drafting work of junior legal professionals.
• Resolve complex interpretation problems requiring nuanced analysis and substantial professional judgement, with guidance available as required.
• Weigh competing interpretations and provide reasoned advice.
• Apply advanced understanding of legislative process and operation in statutory interpretation.
• Lead large or multi-issue research tasks to achieve reliable outcomes, with guidance available as required.
• Ensure clarity, quality and timeliness in presentation of results.
• Guide others in organisation and evaluation of research findings on complex matters.
• Lead management of key client accounts within the practice.
• Balance service delivery with commercial considerations.
• Handle difficult client negotiations including debtor management.
• Coach junior practitioners in good file management and billing practices.
• Ensure practice precedents are up to date and effectively used.
• Mentor staff in ethical and governance obligations.
• Contribute to improving systems and processes, recommending practical enhancements to practice management.

Skills

Litigation

Legal advice

Legal drafting

Statutory interpretation

Legal research

Client relationships

Practice management

Job description

Department of Justice, Queensland in Brisbane seeks a senior legal practitioner to apply advanced competencies across litigation, legal drafting and advisory work.

You will lead complex cases, manage client relationships, ensure ethical governance and contribute to practice management improvements within Crown Law.

The role involves strategic advice on urgent issues, reviewing external inputs, and mentoring junior lawyers to uphold high standards of service to the Queensland community.