The role

We are looking for an experienced, professional and enthusiastic Legal Assistant to support our busy, high-performing DR & Litigation team. As the successful candidate, you will have the opportunity to add an enormous amount of value to the day-to-day efficient running of the practice by immersing yourself in the team and will gain satisfaction from seeing your hard work make a difference.

This role will see you play a central and valued role in supporting a group of legal professionals. The opportunity provides a large amount of variety day to day and will be suited to an individual that thrives in a fast-paced environment. The team is hard-working and high performing, but collegiate and fun, ensuring they take the time to connect socially away from their desks. This role offers the right candidate many opportunities to demonstrate exceptional organisational and administrative skills, and work with a variety of highly experienced litigators.

With no two days the same, the tasks you will be responsible for are;

• Opening and closing matters, conducting conflict searches
• Assistance with court document preparation, online filing and drafting
• Attending to time entries, processing third party invoices, monthly billing and reporting
• Preparation of documents including letters, contracts and general correspondence
• General adhoc administrative duties such as document management

About You 

To succeed in this role, you will ideally have:

• Strong experience in a law firm environment, ideally supporting a litigation practice group with class actions experience
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to prioritise to ensure deadlines are met
• Exposure to working with systems (FileSite and Expert desirable), with the ability to pick up new systems quickly
• High level of attention to detail whilst working in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively within a team whilst also autonomously at times
• Strong work ethic with a fun, engaging personality

About Us

Piper Alderman is a premier commercial law firm with offices in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Melbourne. We work with clients across Australia and internationally to achieve practical commercial outcomes, innovation in service delivery and deep engagement across multiple industries.

Piper Alderman prides itself on being a collaborative law firm where high achieving ambitious team members can succeed in achieving their career goals whilst performing challenging and rewarding tasks.

At Piper Alderman we promote a culture of excellence, collaboration and teamwork. We recognise and support individuals and invest in their continued professional development.

Our perks

We have a variety of employee benefits aimed at supporting our people including, but not limited to:

• A variety of health and wellbeing initiatives including our Thrive@PiperAlderman Wellbeing Program.
• Learning and development opportunities to support career growth including generous study support options.
• An attractive Parental Leave policy offering up to 26 weeks paid leave.
• Automatic acceptance into the group Salary Continuance insurance plan
• Purchased annual leave options.
• A range of fun office and team events all year round so we make sure we are connecting socially as often as possible!
• A range of corporate discounts.
• Employee-led Diversity & Inclusion and Reconciliation Committees and the opportunity to participate in pro-bono work.

RFV – One of the assistants is moving into a Paralegal role and backfilling. She’ll be in the team for handover and training

Bit of experience. Done a legal support role before. Supported Partners and lawyers

2 Partners:
1. Kate Sambrook - https://piperalderman.com.au/member/kate-sambrook/
2. Martin Del Gallego - https://piperalderman.com.au/member/martin-del-gallego/

3 Senior lawyers

2 Associates

Very traditional secretarial role. Billing, opening closing matters,

Class Actions focused.

Need them in the office 4 days per week. Pretty sure candidate can choose which day.

Up to $100k pkg

8:30am – 5pm or 9- 5:30pm

Quite straightforward in communications. High performing. Need someone who can follow instructions