Senior Lawyer: Employment- Litigation Focus

Job Description

What’s in it for you?

• Develop your profile and play an important role in the continued growth of the practice
• Genuine autonomy, have direct client contact and ownership of matters
• Gorgeous offices located in the heart of Sydney CBD

About your new employer:

• Our client is an award-winning Sydney boutique firm known for providing strategic, commercially focused advice to prominent companies, executives and business owners.
• The firm has built a collaborative, ambitious and supportive culture that gives its lawyers meaningful responsibility, direct access to senior practitioners and genuine opportunities to accelerate their careers

About the role:

• Run complex employment and workplace matters from start to finish.
• Lead Fair Work Commission proceedings and employment litigation.
• Advise on general protections and adverse action claims.
• Act on restraint of trade and confidential information disputes.
• Manage sensitive executive appointments, exits and negotiated departures.
• Advise on complex terminations and workplace disputes.
• Provide strategic employment advice on commercially and reputationally sensitive matters.
• Act as the primary adviser to boards, business owners, HR leaders and senior executives.
• Supervise and mentor junior lawyers while remaining hands-on in significant matters.

The ideal candidate:

• Special Counsel with substantial experience in employment law
• Have strong experience running complex employment disputes and advisory matters
• Be comfortable acting as the primary adviser to sophisticated clients
• Have the confidence to make strategic calls and lead matters independently
• Enjoy mentoring and developing junior lawyers
• Be commercially minded and interested in contributing to the growth of a practice

 

If this role does not align to your experience and/or career goals, please contact us to discuss other suitable opportunities.

 

Why work with us?

• We have access to 50% more roles than are publicly available.
• You will receive free CV and content advice as well as interview preparation assistance specific to the role.
• We are intimately aware of market trends including team/firmwide inside information and what salary you can achieve in the current market.
• Naiman Clarke are celebrating 25 years of excellence in the legal recruitment industry this year.  Our team of experienced, legally trained, consultants have over 40 years of combined experience working exclusively in the legal recruitment sector. 

 

Contact Elvira today!

 
Please quote reference number EN/59236

• Call or text: 0480 042 586
• Email:  enaiman@naimanclarke.com.au
• LinkedIn message: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elvira-naiman/

 

Alternatively, click apply and email your resume (in Word version only) and academic transcript.