Jobs at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

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.

Provides employee lifecycle support across onboarding, transfers, leave, departures, documentation, HRIS data management, inductions, employee queries, audits, compliance, reporting, and wellbeing initiatives. The role uses Workday and other digital tools, supports process improvement and People projects, coordinates with IT, Payroll, and Finance, and maintains accurate employee records and resources.

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.

Lead People transformation and optimisation initiatives across the employee lifecycle. Responsibilities include mapping processes, identifying AI and automation opportunities, facilitating discovery workshops, building business cases and success measures, modelling scenarios, developing dashboards, tracking adoption and benefits, and supporting governance, sprint planning, testing, and scaling. The role partners with People, Technology, Data, Finance, and Risk teams to translate analysis into practical recommendations and improved employee experiences.

Handle commercial litigation, class actions, and product liability matters for major clients. Manage files, identify legal issues, provide practical solutions, support client service, and contribute to business development. Collaborate with partners and lawyers across domestic and international offices while developing client relationships and participating in a highly regarded disputes practice.

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 commercial litigation and contentious regulatory advice across local, national and international matters. Handle files, support partners, run investigations, class actions and complex disputes, manage client relationships, and collaborate across offices while developing business opportunities and legal skills.

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.