Current Opportunities

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

The successful candidate:

• 2 - 4 years' experience in a similar role
• A background in personal injury and litigation experience is essential
• 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

About us:

At Colin Biggers & Paisley, our workplace culture focuses on excellence without losing sight of work/life balance.

We established the Colin Biggers & Paisley Foundation which brings together our entire community offering, underpinned by a central strategy of promoting and protecting the rights of women and children in Australia and abroad through pro bono legal services, volunteering and charitable contributions.

We offer an environment where our values of Balance, Respect, Loyalty and Integrity guide all of our actions. We continually invest in our people, providing training, learning and support, a formal mentoring program and promoting a social and connected environment. We also offer other benefits such as social and sporting functions, rewards and recognition, casual Fridays, massages and professional memberships.

Inclusion and Diversity is a priority at Colin Biggers & Paisley. We welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of gender identity, age, sexual orientation, disability or ethnicity.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Providing high level administrative and legal secretarial support
• Maintaining a high level of service excellence at all times
• Diary and email management
• Liaising with clients in a professional manner
• Digital dictation
• Preparing correspondence
• Ensuring filing is undertaken
• Preparing, editing and finalisation of monthly bills
• Working in a timely and effective manner to ensure all tasks are completed
• Developing excellent working relationships with external/internal clients

The successful candidate:

• 3 - 4 years' experience in a similar role
• Experience working in Property & Development and an understanding of legal terminology in this space is essential
• Ability to multi-task
• Confidentiality, sensitivity and integrity across all aspects of the role
• Ability to work to deadlines and work under pressure
• Excellent customer service ethic with a focus on providing a high level of service
• Possess strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong administration and organisation skills
• Sound knowledge and experience of Microsoft products
• Elite 3E knowledge would be desirable but not essential

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

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: 

• 3 years' experience in a similar role
• 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

Key Responsibilities 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:

• 3-4 years' PQE with a background in insolvency and restructuring, front and back end.
• Experience in public examinations and claw back actions (liquidators)
• Completed ARITA course
• Ability to manage client expectations and run matters autonomously
• 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

About us:

At Colin Biggers & Paisley, our workplace culture focuses on excellence without losing sight of work/life balance.

We established the Colin Biggers & Paisley Foundation which brings together our entire community offering, underpinned by a central strategy of promoting and protecting the rights of women and children in Australia and abroad through pro bono legal services, volunteering and charitable contributions.

We offer an environment where our values of Balance, Respect, Loyalty and Integrity guide all of our actions. We continually invest in our people, providing training, learning and support, a formal mentoring program and promoting a social and connected environment. We also offer other benefits such as social and sporting functions, rewards and recognition, casual Fridays, massages and professional memberships.

Inclusion and Diversity is a priority at Colin Biggers & Paisley. We welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of gender identity, age, sexual orientation, disability or ethnicity.

Key responsibilities include:

• Working times are: 12pm - 7.30pm or 2pm - 8.30pm - flexible working arrangements apply. 
• Produce documents of a high standard, with minimal mistakes and in a timely manner
• Transcribe digital dictation files
• Copy typing of documents
• Editing and formatting documents applying CBP styles
• Conversion of PDF documents into firm branding documents
• Producing document comparisons
• Fixing/formatting external documents
• Working with PDF documents
• Ability to use advance Word features - cross-referencing, bookmarks, track changes, table of contents, etc
• Work as part of the WP team and assist with work from all offices
• Other secretarial tasks as required from time to time

The successful candidate:

• Microsoft Office 2013 with good working knowledge of track changes, tables of contents, mail merging and other advanced features in MS Word
• Minimum typing speed of 75wpm
• Excellent grammar and spelling
• Demonstrated attention to detail
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work autonomously and under pressure
• Strong time management skills
• Ability to work flexibly with the immediate team
• Excellent document management and organisational skills
• Ability to prioritise a demanding workload
• Confidentiality

Please click apply or alternatively, please send your resume to natasha.sharma@cbp.com.au

Key Responsibilities include:

• Work with BD colleagues and relevant tools to qualify tender and bid opportunities presented to ensure that they align with the firm's strategic direction and warrant investment
• Managing the end to end process of delivering tenders, expressions of interest, request for proposals, bid documentation and capability statements
• Review, analyse and understand all tender documentation in conjunction with partners, fee-earners and legal secretaries,
• Coordinate the tender process, including coordinating relevant input from partners and fee-earners, finance and legal secretaries,
• Ensure tenders are compliant with RFP criteria and contribute innovative best practices to improve the firm's success rate,
• Manage and maintain currency of the tender database, tender clause bank, and tender and panel tracking document,
• Ensure appropriate sign-off and approvals are provided for all tender documents, and
• Liaise with other members of the marketing team, knowledge management and finance to arrange graphics, pricing, capability statements, and proofreading, as/where required

General Business Development and Marketing Responsibilities include:

• Support partners on pursuit related business development and client relationship activities,
• Prepare regular proposal pipeline and other business development/sales pipeline reports for Senior Business Development Manager and Partners,
• Identify ongoing opportunities for improvement in the proposal preparation process and firm-wide use of CRM, implementing improvements in conjunction with the Senior BD Manager,
• Conduct post-decision reviews/client listening with the Senior BD Manager for key client relationships, and
• Share business development innovations and best practices with the National Marketing and Knowledge Management teams.

The successful candidate:

• Proven experience in project managing end to end tender and other bid document processes in a professional services environment (e.g. accounting firm, law firm, management consulting or banking environment)
• Ideally 3+ years' experience in a similar proposal support and/or business development role in a professional services environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Tertiary qualifications in Business, Communications/Marketing, or another discipline
• Proficient in Microsoft Office with advanced Word, Excel and Powerpoint skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to interact at all levels of the firm with a client-centric focus
• Highly organised with ability to prioritise multiple tasks and meet deadlines in a fast paced environment

About us:

At Colin Biggers & Paisley, our workplace culture focuses on excellence without losing sight of work/life balance.

We established the Colin Biggers & Paisley Foundation which brings together our entire community offering, underpinned by a central strategy of promoting and protecting the rights of women and children in Australia and abroad through pro bono legal services, volunteering and charitable contributions.

We offer an environment where our values of Balance, Respect, Loyalty and Integrity guide all of our actions. We continually invest in our people, providing training, learning and support, a formal mentoring program and promoting a social and connected environment. We also offer other benefits such as social and sporting functions, rewards and recognition, casual Fridays, massages and professional memberships.

Inclusion and Diversity is a priority at Colin Biggers & Paisley. We welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of gender identity, age, sexual orientation, disability or ethnicity.