Lawyer 6 yrs + PQE  Stra­ta and Construction

We are look­ing for a moti­vat­ed lawyer (6 yrs + PQE min­i­mum) to join our dynam­ic Stra­ta and Con­struc­tion team. The role will include broad involve­ment across all facets of stra­ta law includ­ing stra­ta renew­al mat­ters, man­age­ment issues and stra­ta dis­putes and the oppor­tu­ni­ty to tra­verse front end con­tract prepa­ra­tion along with back-end dis­pute lit­i­ga­tion gain­ing valu­able knowl­edge across all areas of construction. 

The super­vis­ing part­ner’s involve­ment in the reme­di­al and stra­ta indus­try with key indus­try stake­hold­ers will allow oppor­tu­ni­ty for the suc­cess­ful can­di­date to be involved at the fore­front of reform in the indus­try sec­tor and exper­tise in assist­ing the stra­ta and reme­di­al sec­tor tra­verse the NSW con­struc­tion reform. 

Fur­ther­more, the role will be required to assist part­ners and senior lawyers in our Construction/​Strata team across all areas of con­struc­tion and stra­ta law with a focus on:

• prepa­ra­tion of legal advice letters
• research
• build­ing contracts
• prepa­ra­tion and col­la­tion of doc­u­ments and evi­dence in lit­i­ga­tion mat­ters for build­ing defects in stra­ta build­ings across var­i­ous jurisdictions,
• stra­ta dis­putes and con­tract disputes,
• assist in stra­ta renew­al pro­ceed­ings in the Land and Envi­ron­ment Court of NSW
• advise on reme­di­al build­ing works under the Design and Build­ing Prac­ti­tion­ers Act 2020

Skills & Experience

To be con­sid­ered for this posi­tion, you will have approx. 6+ years PQE. It is pre­ferred for can­di­dates to pos­sess tech­ni­cal skills from a lit­i­ga­tion and/​or con­struc­tion envi­ron­ment and have the abil­i­ty to man­age a high file load with a lev­el of autonomy. 

The suc­cess­ful can­di­date will be a team play­er, have great com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills, and be will­ing to work on a vari­ety of tasks.

Cul­ture

Work­place cul­ture is impor­tant to us, because when our peo­ple are hap­py, we know they will look after our clients and them­selves. Swaab is a place where peo­ple can belong, evolve and cre­ate and are reward­ed for their efforts. Our peo­ple are the key to our suc­cess, and we believe in recog­nis­ing the val­ue that they bring to the firm.

Ben­e­fits

In addi­tion to a com­pet­i­tive salary, you will also ben­e­fit from the following:

• Salary con­tin­u­ance insurance
• Gym/​wellness contribution
• Excel­lent work­place envi­ron­ment and culture
• Flex­i­bil­i­ty
• Reg­u­lar team build­ing and social events
• Sup­port­ive team and firm
• Pur­chased leave
• Flu shots
• EAP
• Annu­al legal allowance
• Yoga
• Var­i­ous oth­er well-being initiatives

About Swaab

We are a mul­ti-award win­ning com­mer­cial law firm with an entrenched com­mit­ment to our clients and our col­leagues which we live through our own Swaab Brand of Service.

We proud­ly serve the mid­dle mar­ket, list­ed cor­po­ra­tions, fam­i­ly busi­ness­es, wealthy indi­vid­u­als, entre­pre­neurs and start-ups that want a respon­sive and nim­ble team of experts who cel­e­brate their con­tri­bu­tion to the broad­er Aus­tralian economy.

Our key areas of prac­tice are prop­er­ty, cor­po­rate, com­mer­cial, intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty and tech­nol­o­gy, employ­ment law, lit­i­ga­tion, insol­ven­cy, trans­port and fran­chis­ing. We work across a num­ber of indus­tries includ­ing prop­er­ty, retail and fash­ion, health, pro­fes­sion­al ser­vices, trans­port and media. In addi­tion to our com­mer­cial prac­tice we also have a high­ly rep­utable fam­i­ly law team.

We are a mem­ber of Mer­i­tas, a glob­al alliance of inde­pen­dent, full-ser­vice law firms and is its only Syd­ney based mem­ber. This allows us to keep in touch glob­al­ly, pro­vide extend­ed ser­vices to our clients and gives us the expo­sure and oppor­tu­ni­ty to work with inter­na­tion­al businesses.

How to Apply

If this sounds like the oppor­tu­ni­ty that you have been wait­ing for, please apply now, direct­ing your appli­ca­tion to Angela Sharpe, Head of Peo­ple and Cul­ture. Appli­ca­tions can be sent to hr@​swaab.​com.​au 

All appli­ca­tions will be treat­ed in strict confidence.