Location: Brisbane
Discipline: Lawyer, Associate & Senior Associate
Job type: Permanent
Salary: Highly Competitive Salary
Contact name: Georgina See

Contact email: georgina@lawstaff.com.au
Job ref: EM020126
Published: about 3 hours ago
Junior to Intermediate Employment Lawyer | Specialist Firm

Enjoy broad exposure to employment, industrial relations and WHS matters, a highly competitive salary, balanced billable expectations and genuine, merit-based career progression.

Why This Firm?

This is highly regarded specialist firm is known for delivering high-quality, pragmatic advice, while maintaining a genuinely collaborative and supportive team culture.

With a strong reputation in the market and a clear commitment to developing its lawyers, this is an outstanding opportunity to build a long-term career in a specialist practice.

The Role

This opportunity suits a junior to intermediate Employment Lawyer or Associate who enjoys hands-on client work, exposure to varied and complex matters, and working closely with highly experienced senior practitioners.

Your work will include:
  • Employment claims, workplace investigations and employee management matters
  • Employment contracts, policy reviews, compliance and post-employment restraints
  • Award interpretation and underpayment issues
  • Strategic IR advice, enterprise bargaining and union engagement
  • Right of entry matters and dispute management
  • WHS incident response, investigations, enforcement action and workers’ compensation matters
Experience in IR and WHS is highly regarded but not essential.

Clients You will work with a broad and impressive client base across Australia and internationally, including listed entities, multinational organisations and SMEs. The role offers exposure to both high-level strategic advice and practical, day-to-day advisory work, providing excellent breadth of experience.

About You

You will be a confident, motivated and client-focused lawyer who enjoys both autonomy and collaboration. Ideally, you will have:
  • A minimum of 1 year PAE in employment law (IR/WHS experience advantageous)
  • Strong technical, drafting and analytical skills
  • Excellent communication skills and a practical approach to client service
  • The ability to thrive in a supportive, high-performing team environment
Why Join? This is more than just a job, it’s an opportunity to grow your career in a flexible, collegiate and high-quality specialist practice.

Benefits include:
  • Highly competitive salary package reflecting experience and contribution (this firm pays exceptionally well) $$$
  • Balanced and realistic billable expectations
  • Structured morning check-ins to support collaboration and alignment
  • Clear, merit-based progression and recognition
  • Exposure to a diverse client base, from SMEs to global organisations
  • Opportunities to work from the firm’s Sydney office
  • Inclusive, collaborative culture with regular mentoring and knowledge-sharing
Next Steps
Explore new opportunities, applying now quoting reference: EM020126 and forward your Professional Profile to:

Georgina See – georgina@lawstaff.com.au; or
Trudy Reading – trudy@lawstaff.com.au

Even if this role isn’t the perfect fit, Law Staff manages a range of unadvertised private practice and in-house opportunities and would be pleased to discuss other options with you.

For current opportunities, visit www.lawstaff.com.au

Law Staff | 260 Queen Street, Brisbane | (07) 3221 1229