Commercial Litigation/Family/Criminal/Corporate Lawyer

About the firm
Kingsford Lawyers prides itself in maintaining a medium firm feel by treating each client with care and consideration. We are a highly experienced team of lawyers in Melbourne and the Gold Coast serving Australia-wide. We are known for our upfront and honest advice, leaving no grey areas while acting on your behalf. We pride ourselves in offering our clients with an extensive range of professional legal services.
Our Gold Coast office is expanding and we are now seeking an experienced Commercial Litigation/Family/Criminal/Corporate Lawyer to join the team in a full-time opportunity.
Your choice of employer is the most important part of the selection process and if you're seeking a change from where you are, the team has a fantastic multinational culture, with professional development and team well-being the focus of what we do.
Expectations are very reasonable and we are committed to ensuring a good balance without unnecessary pressures that you may find in other firms. Our firm is steadily growing and has an excellent outlook to be the 'go to' firm in our space.
About you:
You are a qualified and experienced Lawyer with a great personality, the bilingual lawyer who can speak both fluent English and Mandarin. The ideal candidate will enjoy working directly with clients and have well developed client relationship skills as well as a strong team-oriented approach.
Your duties including:
• Following all reasonable directions given by the supervisor and partners.
• Independently managing files under supervision (utilizing support staff as required).
• Maintain and build client relationships in a manner consistent with the values of the firm.
• Maintaining workflow in a timely and efficient manner and keeping an account of billable hours.
• Accurately, entering, documents and file notes and billable hours into LEAP, the practices software management system.
• Appearing in court as and when required during the carriage of matters.
• Maintaining appropriate dress code.
• Briefing counsel.
• Continually developing knowledge of the law and cases.
• Conducting themselves in the utmost professional manner.
• Attending staff meetings and training sessions.
• Comply with the UCPR and Legal Profession Uniform Law, including supervision requirements whilst on a restricted practicing certificate.
• Anything other tasks which the partners, or your supervisor reasonably and lawfully, directed to do.
• Outstanding time management & communication skills as well as expert knowledge in your area of practice.
Benefits:
• Competitive remuneration package
• Access to quality recourses and top notch training programs
• Excellent professional development opportunities.
• On offer is a permanent opportunity to join a progressive firm that works hard, has fun and values the relationships we have with our team and our clients.
• We also offer flexible working arrangements.
For further discussion, please contact us on 1300 244 342 or, alternatively, click apply and email your resume (in Word version only) and academic transcript.