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About the Role
This role is designed for capable Senior Associates seeking the next step in their career, offering more complex, high-quality work, a clearer pathway for progression, and a firm where focus remains on practicing law.
Responsibilities
- Manage your own family law caseload with a high degree of autonomy
- Work on complex parenting, property and financial matters
- Appear in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Provide strategic advice to clients during significant life events
- Collaborate with experienced practitioners, barristers and external professionals
Requirements
- 4+ years PAE in Family Law
- Strong experience managing your own files from commencement through to resolution
- Experience appearing in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Well-developed advocacy and negotiation skills
- Strong client relationship management ability
- Sound commercial judgement
- A genuine passion for family law
- A desire to continue developing professionally and progressing your career
Skills
- Family Law
- Advocacy
- Negotiation
- Client relationship management
- Commercial judgement
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Flexible working arrangements
Experience Level
- Senior Associate
- 4+ years PAE
Salary/Compensations
- Highly competitive salary and performance-based bonus structure
Benefits
- Dedicated Client Care Team managing enquiries, consultations and client onboarding
- Strong administrative and accounts support
- Consistent pipeline of quality matters
- No expectation to build your own practice from scratch
- Clear and realistic billable expectations
- Genuine career progression opportunities
- Ongoing professional development and continuing legal education
- Up to 25 days annual leave
- Additional annual leave based on years of service
- $20,000 "Golden Decade Adventure" travel reward after 10 years of service
- Employer-funded wellness programme
- Access to over 2,000 gyms and fitness facilities nationwide
- Mental health and wellbeing support
- Paid practicing certificate
- Flexible parental return-to-work support
- Regular team events and social activities
About the Company
- Unified Lawyers is Australia's largest and fastest-growing specialist family law firm.
- Family law is all we do.
- Our lawyers regularly work on complex parenting disputes, high-net-worth property matters, family violence proceedings and matters involving international asset structures.
- Our entire business is built around family law.
- We've built a structure that allows our lawyers to focus on legal work while our support teams take care of the rest.