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About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Associate to join our leading Tier 1 and award-winning Class Actions team based in Sydney. In this role, you will work closely with multi-award winning partners and leading lawyers on class action matters and complex, strategically critical regulatory investigations and enforcement matters. You will contribute to excellent client service, handle files, identify issues, and proactively provide solutions. You will be a key member of a highly motivated and innovative team, playing an important role in projects to further develop business opportunities with existing and new clients, and collaborating with colleagues in interstate and international offices. We will provide extensive opportunities to develop relationships and benefit from exceptional learning opportunities within an ambitious and collaborative team.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to excellent client service
- Handle files
- Identify issues and proactively provide solutions
- Play an important role in projects to further develop business opportunities with existing and new clients
- Work with colleagues in interstate and international offices
Requirements
- An Australian or New Zealand practising certificate
- 5+ years of post-admission experience
- Demonstrable experience across a range of commercial litigation matters, preferably class actions, from a leading top tier, national or international private practice or an in-house environment
- A strong academic record coupled with strong legal skills and a practical mindset
- A proactive approach and desire to be an integral member of our leading and supportive team
- Ability to work to tight timeframes, collaboratively and at times autonomously
- Excellent communication skills and ability to demonstrate collegiality within a team
- Hunger to learn and develop and be part of maintaining a market-leading practice
- An innovative mindset, curious about AI and emerging technologies
Skills
- Class actions
- Commercial litigation
- Regulatory investigations and enforcement
- Client service
- Legal skills
- Practical mindset
- Proactive approach
- Collaboration
- Autonomy
- Communication skills
- Collegiality
- Learning and development
- Innovative mindset
- AI and emerging technologies
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Full time
- Permanent Contract
Experience Level
- Senior Associate
- 5+ years of post-admission experience
Education Level
- Strong academic record
Benefits
- Holistic wellbeing fund
- Home office allowance
About the Company
- Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is a world-leading global law firm committed to helping clients achieve their goals through exceptional client service and the pursuit of excellence.
- We are a fully integrated transatlantic and transpacific firm with an extensive footprint across the world’s largest markets, key financial centres, and major growth hubs.
- We excel at tackling complexity and navigating change, working alongside clients on demanding litigation, exacting regulatory work, and complex public and private market transactions.
- We are recognised leaders in energy, infrastructure, and resources, and focus on areas of growth impacting businesses globally.
- We support the growth of our people, enabling them to deliver on our ambition.
- Our Disputes Team is a multi-disciplinary global team of world-leading sector specialists and regional experts, described as a 'Dispute Resolution powerhouse that consistently tops the rankings across the world'.
- Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's Disputes group is ranked as a Tier 1 Dispute Resolution: Class Actions Firm (Legal 500 2026) and ranked a Band 1 Dispute Resolution Firm (Chambers Asia Pacific 2026).
- We are a world-leading international law firm with a global team of over 6,000 professionals across 26 offices.
- As the market leader in Australia, we are committed to high performance, collaboration, diversity, and digital innovation.
- We are client-centred, commercially driven, and renowned for our solution-focused expertise.
- We align your growth with our ambitions, making your personal and professional growth our business.
- We provide opportunities to learn on the job and tailored learning opportunities, including daily experiences, supportive challenges, team collaboration, mentors, and structured learning.
- We value your wellbeing, both at home and work, and place a strong emphasis on mental health, providing support and empowering you to harness personal strengths, navigate uncertainty, embrace opportunities, and manage effectively.
- We are committed to attracting people from all backgrounds and creating a respectful and inclusive culture where everyone thrives, seeing this as essential to our success, innovation, and sustained high performance.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to attracting people from all backgrounds and creating a respectful and inclusive culture where everyone thrives. We see this as essential to our success, including our ability to innovate and achieve sustained high performance. This is a key part of our Values—Human, Bold, and Outstanding.