Jobs at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Provide proactive administrative support to lawyers across multiple practice groups. Responsibilities include matter management, time recording, billing assistance, business development support, event coordination, expenses, travel and meetings, mail, printing, filing, archiving, and document support. The role is full-time and fully office-based in Melbourne, requiring strong organization, communication, attention to detail, and Microsoft Office skills.

Lead business development for the Employment, Industrial Relations and Safety practice by managing pitches, proposals, tenders, credentials, thought leadership, podcasts, events, awards submissions, and market research. The role partners with lawyers, partners, marketing teams, and senior stakeholders to support client development, sector initiatives, and firm-wide growth across Australia.

Advises governments, regulators, energy market participants, and private capital clients on Australian energy regulation and infrastructure matters. Work includes regulatory strategy, energy market reform, project structuring, grid connections, revenue arrangements, government support mechanisms, M&A, joint ventures, and clean energy project development. The role requires translating complex regulatory frameworks into clear commercial advice while managing multiple priorities and contributing to Australia’s energy transition.

Lead the firm’s early careers recruitment strategy and programs across Australia. Manage graduate and vacation clerk attraction, university engagement, employer branding, social media, onboarding, development, rotations, and ongoing support. Partner with senior stakeholders and People teams, coach graduates, oversee projects, budgets, suppliers, and team members, and use recruitment metrics and program data to improve outcomes. The role also supports diversity, candidate experience, and continuous improvement across early careers initiatives.

Join a leading corporate projects, energy, and infrastructure practice advising on M&A, joint ventures, project development, and commercial contracts such as power purchase agreements. The role involves collaborating with partners and national teams, supporting clients across energy and infrastructure sectors, delivering technically excellent advice, and managing transactions to tight timeframes. Candidates should be admitted lawyers in Australia or New Zealand with corporate M&A experience and a strong interest in energy transition, innovation, and emerging technologies.

Handle Australian and international trademark filings and prosecutions, portfolio management, rebranding and clearance advice, coexistence agreements, IP due diligence, and trademark and domain name disputes. The role supports national and international clients within a leading trademarks and broader intellectual property disputes team in Melbourne or Sydney.

Leads legal operations advisory engagements for corporate legal departments, advising senior stakeholders on operating model transformation, process improvement, legal technology, AI, change management, and service delivery. Manages project scoping, planning, implementation, and client deliverables; facilitates workshops and presentations; develops solutions and research; supports business development; and guides junior team members. Requires strong analytical, data visualization, communication, and client relationship skills.

Manage strategic HR business partnering across talent development, employee experience, workforce resourcing, employee relations, wellbeing, recruitment, and cyclical people processes. Coach senior leaders, develop junior team members, interpret policies, manage performance and investigations, and collaborate with HR centers of expertise in a complex professional services environment.

Supports two Partners and senior lawyers in a Projects, Energy and Infrastructure team. Responsibilities include matter management, time entry, billing, scheduling meetings, preparing documents in Microsoft Office and iManage, organizing travel, reconciling expenses, supporting business development events, coordinating with other Legal Assistants, mentoring Administrative Assistants, and maintaining file management and risk compliance. The role requires legal support experience, billing exposure, strong organization, and the ability to manage competing priorities.

Advise clients on corporate equity capital markets and public and private M&A transactions, including drafting and negotiating transaction documents. Collaborate with clients, advisers, regulators, and internal legal teams to meet deadlines and deliver integrated services. Support business development, supervise junior lawyers, and contribute to team learning and culture. The role requires Australian or New Zealand admission and 4–7 years of relevant post-qualification experience.

Advise clients on employment and industrial relations law, including workforce strategy, enterprise bargaining, industrial disputes, litigation, corporate transactions, compliance, regulatory investigations, and Fair Work Commission matters. The solicitor will represent clients before courts and tribunals, identify legal risks, develop practical solutions, and support complex workplace matters while collaborating with partners and clients.

Advise clients on public and private M&A, takeovers, disposals, private equity transactions, venture capital investments, joint ventures, and shareholder arrangements. Draft and negotiate transaction documents, manage legal risk, meet deadlines, coordinate with internal and external advisers, develop client relationships, support business development, and mentor junior lawyers.

Advise clients on complex technology, data, IP, digital transformation, outsourcing, telecommunications, privacy, cybersecurity, AI, and commercial transactions. Draft and negotiate agreements, support M&A separations and carve-outs, advise on governance and risk, manage client relationships, contribute to thought leadership, and mentor junior lawyers across global, cross-border matters.

Advise clients on improving legal-function effectiveness through operating model design, process improvement, resourcing strategy, technology, and AI adoption. Lead end-to-end project design and delivery, facilitate workshops, develop digital and legal engineering solutions, manage client relationships, support business development, and contribute to strategic initiatives. The role also involves stakeholder influence, client-facing communication, change management, design thinking, data analysis, and mentoring within a multidisciplinary team.

Join a leading Melbourne disputes team handling class actions, commercial and corporate disputes, and contentious regulatory investigations. Responsibilities include managing files, providing technical legal advice, identifying issues, developing solutions, delivering excellent client service, supporting business development, and collaborating with lawyers across national and international offices.

Provides high-level administrative and practice support to an employment, industrial relations and safety legal team. Responsibilities include complex diary and inbox management, document and correspondence preparation, meeting and travel coordination, client liaison, billing and cost reporting, deadline monitoring, matter administration, and process improvement using technology and AI tools.

Provide competition, consumer law and regulatory advice across investigations, merger clearances, litigation and access/economic regulation. Supervise junior lawyers, manage client relationships, work to tight deadlines, and develop expertise in merger control and emerging technologies.

Provide administrative support to the Digital Legal Delivery team: schedule meetings, manage travel and expenses, draft and manage legal documents using Microsoft Office and iManage, open/close matters and assist billing, handle client queries, mentor junior staff, support business development and events, and champion technology and AI adoption while ensuring firm compliance.

Provide high-quality legal advice and manage commercial litigation matters including regulatory investigations, corporate disputes, internal investigations, inquiries and class actions. Support partners, handle files, identify issues, propose solutions, develop client relationships, collaborate across offices and contribute to business development and team growth.