AddressLOD (Lawyers on Demand) is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing flexible legal services businesses. Continuing to lead the market we created, our lawyers have completed hundreds of secondments with the world’s leading companies.
We're a global business with offices around the world that focus on providing end-to-end solutions for our clients' legal needs, by connecting them with our team of exceptional legal professionals. We provide secondment opportunities, legal advisory services, and legal operations & tech solutions. Together, we find new ways to supercharge the value that legal professionals and in-house legal teams deliver.
With LOD, you get all the best bits of being a lawyer - interesting work with some of the world's most exciting organisations, plus the flexibility and freedom to live your life how you want.
As a fresh alternative to the traditional way of working in law, our lawyers get to carry out varied, challenging and career enhancing work. Join us and you’ll have the opportunity to work in-house with some of the world's largest companies and organisations!
Who are we looking for?
We are growing our team and looking for an experienced Company Secretary to join us and work on secondment at a general cargo port with a supportive and friendly team. This is initially a 6-month opportunity with potential to extend.
On this secondment, you'll manage Board papers and communication, preparation for Board meetings and execution of documents. You'll also provide act as the liaison between Board and business as well as providing any related administration to support the General Counsel. There will also be some legal and compliance work with the legal team.
To join us, you will:
- Have a minimum of 4 years' relevant experience.
- Be available to commence at short notice.
- Be commercially minded and have the ability to hit the ground running.
What sets us apart?
People join us for a range of reasons - the life of an LOD lawyer is like no other.
- We’re an Employer of Choice: for the fifth year in a row, we’ve been recognised as an Employer of Choice by Australasian Lawyer. We’re even prouder that we’ve received an employee NPS score across Australia of 81 which is recognised as “ground-breaking”.
- CV-enhancing work with global brands: We provide our people with varied, challenging, career-enhancing work with world-class global brands, allowing them to take control of their career and diversify their experience across a range of industries.
- No limits: We’ve helped open doors, break glass ceilings, facilitate the transition from private practice to in-house, and develop career pathways to become a GC. Whatever direction you want to take your career, we can help you get there.
- You call the shots: We take work-life balance pretty seriously. You can work on-site with our clients or remotely, undertake full-time or part-time assignments, or assignments that are for set months of a year – it's your choice!
- You’re never on your own: Throughout your LOD career, you’ll become part of a community. You’ll be supported by your LOD colleagues and our HQ team, have access to mentoring programs and high quality know-how, LOD social events, and receive regular training to assist in your ongoing growth and development.
- Our Ways Of Working help shape who we are and what we do: we deliver, we are creative, we are inclusive, we care & collaborate, and we are trusted.
- We’re global: LOD can provide you with local, interstate and international working opportunities. In late 2023, LOD joined forces with Consilio, the global leader in legal consulting and enterprise legal services. Together, LOD & Consilio have a team of approximately 10,000 lawyers, legal engineers, legal operations consultants, paralegals, and risk & compliance professionals spanning North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and the Middle East.
What's Next?
Keen to learn more? Simply click ‘Apply’. Lauren Connors or Chloe Walsh from our People & Development team will be in touch with you shortly after.
You can also learn more about us from our website at www.lodlaw.com
LOD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion is a core part of our Ways of Working, and we celebrate and embrace it. We know the individual differences of our people make us collectively better and we encourage all applicants; including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people,
