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About the Role
An exciting opportunity exists for a Special Counsel to join the Asbestos & Dust Diseases team in Brisbane or Sydney. This full-time, permanent role offers the chance to manage your own practice, deliver high-quality work, and continuously expand your skill set while striving for fair client outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Manage your own practice, producing high quality work for clients.
- Maintain a practical and commercial focus.
- Meet with potential clients and use technical knowledge to strive for fair outcomes.
- Foster and manage relationships with referrers and other external parties.
- Grow the practice.
- Provide support and mentoring to junior legal staff.
- Supervise and train others, including paralegals and junior lawyers.
- Work with a team to prepare matters for mediation and hearing.
- Draft court documents, letters of advice, and conduct complex legal research in novel and unfamiliar areas of law.
Requirements
- 7+ years post admission experience.
- Experience working within a personal injuries’ litigation environment with a background in dust diseases matters.
- Alternatively, high quality workers’ compensation experience in either QLD or NSW with a desire to specialise in dust diseases claims will be considered.
- Ability to supervise and train others, including paralegals and junior lawyers.
- Proven leadership and people management skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with experience providing high level client service.
- Display empathy and compassion for clients.
- Ability to think creatively to find legal and advocacy solutions for clients.
- Experience in working with a team to prepare matters for mediation and hearing.
- Capability to draft court documents, letters of advice and conduct complex legal research in novel and unfamiliar areas of law.
- Successful candidates will be required to undergo background checks.
Skills
- High levels of interpersonal communication skills
- ‘Can-do’ attitude
- Ability to easily manage conflicting business needs and deadlines with confidence in ability to prioritise accordingly
- Strong client focus
- Passion for helping people
- Leadership skills
- People management skills
- High level client service
- Empathy
- Compassion
- Creative thinking
- Advocacy skills
- Teamwork
- Drafting court documents
- Drafting letters of advice
- Complex legal research
Location
- Brisbane
- Sydney
Work Type
- Full-time
- Permanent
- Hybrid flex working model
Experience Level
- Special Counsel
- 7+ years post admission experience
Benefits
- Ongoing coaching and career development opportunities
- End of Year leave (1 day first year, 4 days after 2 years)
- Comprehensive mental health framework, including wellbeing leave (up to 4 extra days per year) and $299 reimbursement
- 22 Weeks Parental leave with superannuation guaranteed and back-to-work transition policy
- Rewards and recognition platform with fitness, retail, and entertainment discounts
- Salary Continuance & Life Insurance
- 17.5% Annual Leave Loading
About the Company
- For over 100 years, Maurice Blackburn has stood up for those who need us most, extending access to justice to countless Australians.
- We look beyond the immediate challenge to support people in moments that matter across their lives, and continually push for better solutions for our clients.
- We invest in and empower our people to stand up for what we believe in and go fearlessly forward together.
- We work on real cases, achieving important and positive results in real people’s lives, which is why we are one of Australia’s most respected law firms.
- Maurice Blackburn, experience you can count on.
- Our shared values represent what we stand for and guide how we act, with Courage; Compassion; Collaboration; Fairness and Tenacity.
- We love that you have a life outside of work and we’re happy to support yours.
- We provide you a safe, supportive and collaborative environment, backed by inclusive leaders and progressive people policies, where you can be your authentic self and thrive.
- Here we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture, enriched by differences in ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, religion, age and family arrangements.
- Our Circle Back Initiative partnership means we’re committed to responding to every applicant.
Equal Opportunity
- Applications from First Nations People are encouraged.