Practice Leader

Legal Practice Leader

About the role - NSW Work and Road - Practice Leader (Workers Compensation) | Sydney & Greater Western Sydney

As a Practice Leader, you’ll play a vital role in supporting the Head of Practice to deliver on the group’s strategic, financial, operational, and people objectives. You'll lead and supervise a high performing team of dedicated professionals, managing complex legal matters while also fostering a culture of collaboration, performance, and excellence in client experience.

We are offering a unique and rare career opportunity for an experienced and driven lawyer to join our well-established Workers Compensation team in NSW as a Practice Leader. We are open to this role being based anywhere from Sydney to Greater Western Sydney - with office locations in Sydney, Penrith or Bankstown.

This Full-Time, permanent position is ideal for a driven Workers Compensation or Personal Injury Lawyer with 7+ years post-admission experience and an accredited specialist in Personal Injury specialising in Workers Compensation and common law damages claims.

Reporting to the Head of Practice, you will:

• Mentor and support team members to strengthen technical capability, manage performance effectively, contribute to enterprise initiatives, foster engagement and development, and role model behaviours aligned with firm values.
• Demonstrate specialised legal expertise, manage complex matters effectively, support delivery of high-quality legal advice and client outcomes, and ensure compliance with legal requirements, firm governance, practice standards, and supervision models.
• Demonstrate strategic leadership by effectively managing practice operations, financial performance, and business growth initiatives. Collaborate to improve processes, support change management, strengthen client conversion, and build trusted relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, including regulators, courts, insurers, government bodies, counsel, and health professionals.

What will you bring?

As a Practice Leader with our firm, you will be required to make regular complex decisions that will impact directly on your client matters and your team, in consultation with your Head of Practice and Practice Leader peers.  You will also bring the following skills and attributes:

• Proven post admission experience (7+ PAE) as a Personal Injury Lawyer, with a strong preference for expertise in Workers Compensation
• Sound legal technical expertise with a commitment to high standards of professional practice 
• Proven ability to foster strong relationships across all levels of an organisation, including direct reports, peers, clients, and stakeholders  
• Demonstrated leadership experience with a track record of motivating and guiding legal professionals (highly regarded)
• Taking a systematic and structured approach, ensuring work is completed efficiently and accurately
• Proactive with the ability to take initiative and drive client matters forward independently
• Superior written and verbal communication skills, tailored to a diverse audience
• Strong technical and functional skills to support and mentor others
• A collaborative mindset, committed to contributing to a positive and high-performing team environment

Why join Slater and Gordon

 Leadership capability will be highly valued but is not essential to be considered for this opportunity. A proactive mindset and willingness to grow into leadership will be equally regarded. For those with demonstrates leadership capability, it affords an opportunity to accelerate your career progression with a pathway to Senior Practice Leader.

Our commitment to our people includes offering genuine work-life balance, with a hybrid work environment allowing them to split their time between home and the office. We recognise and reward high performance and have outstanding employee benefits including a week of shutdown leave, paid parental leave, extra-long service leave, together with various ongoing learning and professional development opportunities.

What next?

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly to Slater and Gordon. We prefer to talk with you personally and are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies.

To be eligible for this position, you must be an Australian citizen, a permanent resident, or hold a valid visa with full and unrestricted working rights in Australia. Proof of work rights will be required as part of the Slater and Gordon application process. 

Acknowledgement of Country

Slater and Gordon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all First Nations peoples today.

Diversity + Inclusion 

Slater and Gordon is committed to creating an inclusive workplace that values diversity and ensures equal opportunities for all. Slater and Gordon is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected attributes. We understand that everyone has different needs. If you require reasonable adjustments throughout