Current Opportunities

About the role:

Reporting to HR, we have a fantastic opportunity for a 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

  
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, age, sexual orientation, disability or ethnicity.

We are seeking a full-time Senior Associate or Solicitor to join our Planning, Government, Infrastructure & 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:

• Approximately 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

Founded over a century ago, Colin Biggers & Paisley continues to realise our vision of being recognised as the leading provider of legal services in our chosen fields of expertise. Today our practice has over 470 staff, offices in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, and a track record of high engagement and collaborative leadership.

About the role:
We are seeking a part time (3 days a week) lawyer with workers compensation experience to work closely with one of our most experienced partners across a number of matters.
Key responsibilities include:

• Providing clients with legal advice and defence on workers compensation 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:

• 2 years PQE with experience in workers compensation 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

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, age, sexual orientation, disability or ethnicity.

We are seeking a full-time Professional Indemnity Solicitor to join our Insurance group in our Melbourne office, specialising in construction litigation. Key responsibilities 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:

• Minimum 2 years' PQE with experience in professional indemnity and 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 or Special Counsel to work closely with a dynamic Insurance team, with a focus on worker's compensation, public liability and special issues. 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
• Managing prospective client relationships
• Mentoring and developing junior staff
• 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:

• 5+ years' PQE with experience in insurance matters
• 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 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

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 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 an experienced Senior Associate to join our Property & Development team in our Sydney office, with a focus on leasing. 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 leasing
• 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 Senior Associate to join our Insurance team in our Melbourne office, working largely across personal injury, professional indemnity, workers compensation and dust diseases. 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:

• Ideally 5+ years' PQE with experience in insurance 
• 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 Senior Associate to work closely with a dynamic team across a broad spectrum of professional indemnity, general liability and general insurance matters. There are two positions available for this role. 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
• Managing prospective client relationships
• Mentoring and developing junior staff
• 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:

• 4+ years' PQE with experience in insurance matters
• 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 an experienced Solicitor or Senior Associate to work across Insurance and Construction Disputes in our Sydney office. There are two positions available for this role. 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:

• 4-8 years' PQE with a background in construction litigation
• 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 the role:

• This role will manage and deliver on all CBP Foundation community (internal and external) initiatives;
• Identifying opportunities for community projects (through the Volunteering and Charitable Contributions streams of the CBP Foundation) and developing, implementing and coordinating projects as required;
• Supporting local staff to ensure local community volunteering and fundraising projects are effectively managed and aligned with the firm's Responsible Business strategy;
• Assisting the Director of Pro Bono and Responsible Business with the implementation of all pro bono and community engagement activities and projects, and in delivering on the firm's Responsible Business strategy;
• Implementing initiatives to meet fundraising and other targets to support the firm's National Charity Partnership and Local Partnerships;
• Developing and preparing internal and external communications in partnership with the firm's Communications Team; and
• Helping to monitor, evaluate and report on all pro bono and community activities.

The Successful candidate:

• Must have experience in a professional services environment;
• Polished project management and implementation skills;
• Must have relationship management skills and the ability to engage with and influence key stakeholders; and
• Your personal presence must demonstrate resilience and a passion for driving social outcomes.

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 graduates 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 the philosophy of critical thinking and the process of 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 graduates 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 to our judgements in respect of the strategic ends to advance the achievement of our client's purpose for our clients' legal matters.
• As Designers who Simplify by design, we apply knowledge and understanding and operational design to our choices in respect of the operational ways to realise the strategic ends for our clients' legal matters.
• As Tacticians who Win by manoeuvre, we apply intuition and creativity and tactical manoeuvre to our actions in respect of the tactical means to execute the line of operations we have designed to realise our clients' policy ends for our clients' legal matters.

Our commitment to our graduates

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

Our graduate program runs for twelve months and incorporates time spent at the College of Law, with the expectation that our successful graduates will progress as solicitors in our group. This program will start in 2020.

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.