Current Opportunities

We are seeking a Construction & Engineering Secretary to join our Brisbane office on a 12 month contract, commencing May 2019.  Supporting a Partner and two Solicitors, key responsibilities include:

• Providing high level administrative and legal secretarial support
• Developing excellent working relationships with external/internal clients
• Maintaining a high level of service excellence at all times
• Work in a timely and effective manner to ensure all tasks are completed
• Transcribing digital dictation files and produce typed work of a high standard of grammar, spelling and layout
• Preparing correspondence and Court documents
• Ensuring filing is undertaken
• Preparing monthly draft bills, editing time entries and attaching creditors tax invoices

•  A strong construction background is preferred
• Excellent customer service ethic with a focus on providing a high level of service
• Possess strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytic and problem solving skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong administration and organisation skills
• Sound knowledge and experience of Microsoft products
• Confidentiality, sensitivity and integrity across all aspects of the role
• Ability to work to deadlines

We are seeking a full-time Construction Litigation Solicitor to join our Sydney office. Key responsibilities include:

• Providing clients with legal advice
• Regularly reviewing applicable case law and legislative changes
• Conducting effective legal research and analysis to produce timely, commercial and legally accurate advice
• Managing a robust workload, including prioritising work and delivering services effectively
• Developing an understanding of client operations and strategy
• Continual professional development and managing MCLE requirements

The successful candidate:

You will be supported in this close knit team, given training, mentoring and guidance from your peers and leader. You will need to be self-motivated, energetic and adaptable in this dynamic environment. Ideal background and skills include:

• 3+ years' PQE with experience in construction litigation
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to follow instructions well
• Ability to relate to people at all levels and effectively work in a team
• A strong focus on turnaround time and ability to work under pressure
• Practical and client focused problem solving and research skills
• A strong, plain language communication style

We are seeking a Senior Associate to join our Employment & Safety team in our Brisbane office. Working closely with a dynamic and highly successful team, your key responsibilities will include:

• Providing clients with legal advice
• Assist in managing matters, ensuring all deadlines are met
• Regularly reviewing applicable case law and legislative changes
• Conducting effective legal research and analysis to produce timely, commercial and legally accurate advice
• Managing a robust workload, including prioritising work and delivering services effectively
• Developing an understanding of client operations and strategy
• Managing prospective client relationships
• Mentoring and developing junior staff
• Continual professional development and managing CLE requirements

The successful candidate:

You will be supported in this close knit team, given training, mentoring and guidance from your peers and leader. You will need to be self-motivated, energetic and adaptable in this dynamic environment. Ideal background and skills include:

• A minimum of 5 years' PQE with a background in employment & safety
• Previous exposure to Business Development and a natural ability to build strong client relationships
• Ability to manage client expectations and run matters autonomously
• Interested in establishing a long-term successful career with Colin Biggers & Paisley
• Ability to relate to people at all levels and effectively work in a team
• A strong focus on turnaround time
• Commercial acumen
• Practical and client focused problem solving skills
• A strong, plain language communication style

We are seeking a full-time Insurance Solicitor to work closely with a dynamic team across a broad spectrum of professional indemnity, general liability and general insurance matters. Key responsibilities include:

• Providing clients with legal advice and defence on insured commercial disputes
• Regularly reviewing applicable case law and legislative changes
• Conducting effective legal research and analysis to produce timely, commercial and legally accurate advice
• Managing a robust workload, including prioritising work and delivering services effectively
• Developing an understanding of client operations and strategy
• Continual professional development and managing MCLE requirements

The successful candidate:

You will be supported in this close knit team, given training, mentoring and guidance from your peers and leader. You will need to be self-motivated, energetic and adaptable in this dynamic environment. Ideal background and skills include:

• Ideally 2-4 years' PQE with experience in insurance matters
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to follow instructions well
• Ability to relate to people at all levels and effectively work in a team
• A strong focus on turnaround time and ability to work under pressure
• Practical and client focused problem solving and research skills
• A strong, plain language communication style

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Corporate & Commercial Secretary who enjoys a role where they will help grow this established practice and be an integral part of the team. Key responsibilities include:

• Providing high level administrative and legal secretarial support
• Developing excellent working relationships with external/internal clients
• Maintaining a high level of service excellence at all times
• Work in a timely and effective manner to ensure all tasks are completed
• Transcribing digital dictation files and produce typed work of a high standard of grammar, spelling and layout
• Preparing correspondence and Court documents
• Ensuring filing is undertaken
• Preparing monthly draft bills, editing time entries and attaching creditors tax invoices

• 2 - 4 years' experience in a similar role
• A strong corporate & commercial background is preferred
• Excellent customer service ethic with a focus on providing a high level of service
• Possess strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytic and problem solving skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong administration and organisation skills
• Sound knowledge and experience of Microsoft products
• Confidentiality, sensitivity and integrity across all aspects of the role
• Ability to work to deadlines

Reporting to HR, we have a fantastic opportunity for a part-time Float Secretary (4 days/week) who enjoys a role with variety to join our support group in our Sydney office. Key responsibilities include:

• Provide high level of secretarial support to allocated teams as required
• Develop excellent working relationships with external/internal clients
• Maintain a high level of professionalism and service excellence at all times
• Work in a timely and effective manner to ensure all tasks are completed
• Report to HR each morning for work allocation
• Work with HR to identify practice areas that need secretarial support when float secretary is not booked
• Flexibility to be placed in all practice areas as requested by HR

The successful candidate:

You will be supported in this close knit team, given training, mentoring and guidance from your peers and leader. You will need to be self-motivated and adaptable in this dynamic environment. Ideal background and skills include:

• A minimum of 4 years' experience working in either a float or secretarial role with professional services
• Prior experience within the following practice areas - construction, property, insurance and corporate dispute resolution experience is preferred.
• Ability to work autonomously and within a team
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Experience working with Elite Practice Management System
• Organise and prioritise workload, be flexible, and work with tight timeframes
• Work effectively with all members of the practice
• Minimum typing speed of 60 wpm
• Strong attention to detail, communication and time management skills

Reporting to HR, we have a fantastic opportunity for a full-time Float Secretary who enjoys a role with variety to join our support group in our Sydney office. Key responsibilities include:

• Provide high level of secretarial support to allocated teams as required
• Develop excellent working relationships with external/internal clients
• Maintain a high level of professionalism and service excellence at all times
• Work in a timely and effective manner to ensure all tasks are completed
• Report to HR each morning for work allocation
• Work with HR to identify practice areas that need secretarial support when float secretary is not booked
• Flexibility to be placed in all practice areas as requested by HR

The successful candidate:

You will be supported in this close knit team, given training, mentoring and guidance from your peers and leader. You will need to be self-motivated and adaptable in this dynamic environment. Ideal background and skills include:

• A minimum of 4 years' experience working in either a float or secretarial role with professional services
• Prior experience within the following practice areas - construction, property, insurance and corporate dispute resolution experience is preferred.
• Ability to work autonomously and within a team
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Experience working with Elite Practice Management System
• Organise and prioritise workload, be flexible, and work with tight timeframes
• Work effectively with all members of the practice
• Minimum typing speed of 60 wpm
• Strong attention to detail, communication and time management skills

Our firm

Colin Biggers & Paisley was founded over a century ago and today is one of the oldest legal practices in Australia. We are proud of our long-standing client relationships with many of Australia's most respected and successful corporations and governments. Today our practice has over 450 staff with offices in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.

We are currently recruiting for a solicitor to join our Planning Government Infrastructure and Environment group in our Brisbane Office.

Our group

Our Planning Government Infrastructure and Environment group is the trusted partner of public and private sector entities, for whom we are the legal and policy designers of strategic and tactical solutions to exceptionally challenging problems, in our chosen fields of planning, government, infrastructure and environment.

We have more than 50 years' experience of planning, designing and executing legal and policy solutions for large development and infrastructure projects in Australia, including new cities, towns and communities.

We are passionate about planning, government, infrastructure and environment issues and we pride ourselves on acting for both the private and public sectors, including private development corporations, listed development corporations, other non-public sector entities and a wide range of State and local government entities.

Our reputation

Our Planning Government Infrastructure and Environment group has built long and trusted relationships through continuous and exceptional performance.

We understand that exceptional performance is a foundation of success, and we apply our critical thinking and strategy to ensure an unparalleled level of planning, design and manoeuvre to achieve that success.

Our group practices as an East Coast Team of Teams known for its Trusted Partners, Strategic Thinkers, Legal and Policy Designers and Tacticians.

Our credo

Our credo is to Lead, Simplify and Win with Integrity. We therefore partner by integrity, lead by planning, simplify by design and win by manoeuvre.

Our selection criteria

We are seeking to partner with solicitors who have the knowledge, skills and attributes to study and actualise the following elements of our system:

• As Trusted Partners who partner by integrity, our judgements, choices and actions are in accord with practical reasoning (that is our integrity) and a moral, ethical and professional code (that is our character).
• As Strategists who Lead by planning, we apply practical reasoning and strategic planning for our clients' legal matters, to frame the relevant assumptions, policy ends, strategic ways and tactical means.
• As Designers who Simplify by design, we apply knowledge and understanding and operational design, to map out the strategic ways for achieving our clients' policy ends for our clients' legal matters.
• As Tacticians who Win by manoeuvre, we apply intuition and creativity and tactical manoeuvre, to action the lines of operation for the strategic ways we have designed to achieve our clients' policy ends for our clients' legal matters.

Our commitment to our solicitors

Our solicitors work closely with our partners and senior lawyers in a highly mentored and supervised manner where the development of legal knowledge matters.

If you are interested in joining this highly motivated group, please apply through the application form below with your covering letter providing a considered response to our selection criteria, a brief resume and a copy of your academic transcript.

If you have any questions please contact Julia Paino our Human Resources Consultant at julia.paino@cbp.com.au.

We are seeking a full-time Senior Associate to join our Planning & Environment team in our Sydney office. The team designs innovative solutions for public and private sector entities facing challenging problems in the areas of planning, government, infrastructure and environment. Key responsibilities of the position include:

• Providing clients with legal advice
• Assist in managing matters, ensuring all deadlines are met
• Regularly reviewing applicable case law and legislative changes
• Conducting effective legal research and analysis to produce timely, commercial and legally accurate advice
• Managing a robust workload, including prioritising work and delivering services effectively
• Developing an understanding of client operations and strategy
• Managing prospective client relationships
• Mentoring and developing junior staff
• Continual professional development and managing CLE requirements

The successful candidate:
You will be supported in this close knit team, given training, mentoring and guidance from your peers and leader. You will need to be self-motivated, energetic and adaptable in this dynamic environment. Ideal background and skills include:

• A minimum of 5 years' PQE with a background in planning, government, infrastructure and environment
• Strong attention to detail
• Previous exposure to Business Development and a natural ability to build strong client relationships
• Ability to manage client expectations and run matters autonomously
• Interested in establishing a long-term successful career with Colin Biggers & Paisley
• Ability to relate to people at all levels and effectively work in a team
• A strong focus on turnaround time
• Commercial acumen
• Practical and client focused problem solving skills
• A strong, plain language communication style

We are seeking a Solicitor to join our Insurance team in our Melbourne office, working largely across personal injury matters. Working closely with a dynamic and highly successful team, your key responsibilities will include:

• Providing clients with commercial legal advice
• Regularly reviewing applicable case law and legislative changes
• Conducting effective legal research and analysis to produce timely, commercial and legally accurate advice
• Managing a robust workload, including prioritising work and delivering services effectively
• Developing an understanding of client operations and strategy
• Continual professional development and managing CLE requirements

The successful candidate:

You will be supported in this close knit team, given training, mentoring and guidance from your peers and leader. You will need to be self-motivated, energetic and adaptable in this dynamic environment. Ideal background and skills include:

• Ideally 3 years' PQE with experience in insurance (specifically personal injury)
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to follow instructions well
• Ability to relate to people at all levels and effectively work in a team
• A strong focus on turnaround time and ability to work under pressure
• Practical and client focused problem solving and research skills
• A strong, plain language communication style

Reporting to our Talent Acquisition Specialist (TAS), we are looking for a full-time, permanent Recruitment Coordinator to join our HR team. Based in our Sydney office, you will have responsibility for coordinating all support staff recruitment nationally. Key responsibilities include:

• End-to-end management of support staff recruitment, including:
  • Receiving briefs
  • Posting and closing advertisements through JobAdder
  • Conducting candidate searches
  • Short listing candidates
  • Scheduling and running interviews
  • Reference checks
• Assisting TAS with any ad hoc duties
• Coordinating the internal National Recruitment Update
• Assisting with generalist HR duties from the HR team as required

The successful candidate:

You will be supported in this close knit team, given training, mentoring and guidance from your peers and leader. You will need to be self-motivated and adaptable in this dynamic environment. Ideal background and skills include:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications 
• Approximately 12 months experience in a recruitment or HR generalist position 
• Strong attention to detail, time management, organisational and general administrative skills
• The passion and attitude to work in a fast paced professional services environment
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Thrives in a collaborative team environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong relationships with staff members
• Ability to service internal clients and produce high quality outcomes

We are seeking a Senior Associate to join our Property & Development team in our Brisbane office. Working closely with a dynamic and highly successful team, your key responsibilities will include:

• Providing clients with legal advice
• Assist in managing matters, ensuring all deadlines are met
• Regularly reviewing applicable case law and legislative changes
• Conducting effective legal research and analysis to produce timely, commercial and legally accurate advice
• Managing a robust workload, including prioritising work and delivering services effectively
• Developing an understanding of client operations and strategy
• Managing prospective client relationships
• Mentoring and developing junior staff
• Continual professional development and managing CLE requirements

The successful candidate:

You will be supported in this close knit team, given training, mentoring and guidance from your peers and leader. You will need to be self-motivated, energetic and adaptable in this dynamic environment. Ideal background and skills include:

• A minimum of 5 years' PQE with a background in property & development
• Previous exposure to Business Development and a natural ability to build strong client relationships
• Ability to manage client expectations and run matters autonomously
• Interested in establishing a long-term successful career with Colin Biggers & Paisley
• Ability to relate to people at all levels and effectively work in a team
• A strong focus on turnaround time
• Commercial acumen
• Practical and client focused problem solving skills
• A strong, plain language communication style

We are seeking a full-time Solicitor to join our Disputes Resolution team in our Brisbane office, working across a range of litigation and insurance matters. Key responsibilities include:

• Providing clients with legal advice 
• Regularly reviewing applicable case law and legislative changes
• Conducting effective legal research and analysis to produce timely, commercial and legally accurate advice
• Managing a robust workload, including prioritising work and delivering services effectively
• Developing an understanding of client operations and strategy
• Continual professional development and managing MCLE requirements

The successful candidate:

You will be supported in this close knit team, given training, mentoring and guidance from your peers and leader. You will need to be self-motivated, energetic and adaptable in this dynamic environment. Ideal background and skills include:

• Ideally 2 years' PQE with a background in insurance and/or litigation 
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to follow instructions well
• Ability to relate to people at all levels and effectively work in a team
• A strong focus on turnaround time and ability to work under pressure
• Practical and client focused problem solving and research skills
• A strong, plain language communication style

We are seeking a full-time Graduate to join our Transport & Shipping team in our Brisbane office. Key responsibilities include:

• Assisting with providing clients with legal advice 
• Regularly reviewing applicable case law and legislative changes
• Conducting effective legal research and analysis to produce timely, commercial and legally accurate advice
• Managing a robust workload, including prioritising work and delivering services effectively
• Developing an understanding of client operations and strategy

The successful candidate:

You will be supported in this close knit team, given training, mentoring and guidance from your peers and leader. You will need to be self-motivated, energetic and adaptable in this dynamic environment. Ideal background and skills include:

• A recent law graduate
• Strong academics to support your application (above credit average)
• Extensive research skills developed through paralegal experience highly desirable
• Judge's Associate experience highly desirable
• Experience in mooting competitions highly desirable
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to follow instructions well
• Ability to relate to people at all levels and effectively work in a team
• A strong focus on turnaround time and ability to work under pressure
• Practical and client focused problem solving and research skills