Plan­ning & Envi­ron­ment Lawyer 1 — 3 yrs’ PAE

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.

About the role

We cur­rent­ly have a rare oppor­tu­ni­ty for a Plan­ning & Envi­ron­ment Lawyer to work under the guid­ance of a Doyle’s rec­om­mend­ed Part­ner in our well-respect­ed Plan­ning team.

Whilst your mul­ti-task­ing and excel­lent com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills will be a giv­en we also require the following:

• You must pos­sess a Bach­e­lor of Laws or equiv­a­lent qual­i­fi­ca­tion and be admit­ted or eli­gi­ble for imme­di­ate admis­sion as a solic­i­tor of the Supreme Court of NSW;
• Demon­strat­ed expe­ri­ence in the spe­cial­ist area of Plan­ning and Envi­ron­ment Law;
• 1 — 3 years’ PAE as a solicitor;
• Lit­i­ga­tion / Court expe­ri­ence is a must how­ev­er there will be an ele­ment of front end advi­so­ry and back end lit­i­ga­tion work involved in this role;
• Supe­ri­or prob­lem solv­ing skills and a prac­ti­cal com­mon sense approach.

The role will pro­vide expo­sure to both advi­so­ry and lit­i­ga­tion work, with the oppor­tu­ni­ty to engage with a wide range of clients, from devel­op­ers, gov­ern­ment depart­ments, and agen­cies across a vari­ety of plan­ning and envi­ron­ment mat­ters. You will be expect­ed to run your own con­cil­i­a­tion conferences.

This role would suit an expe­ri­enced plan­ning and envi­ron­ment lawyer, who is inter­est­ed in devel­op­ing their own prac­tice and is com­fort­able tak­ing car­riage of their own matters.

Skills & Experience 

To be con­sid­ered for this posi­tion, it is desir­able for can­di­dates to pos­sess pri­or expe­ri­ence in advi­so­ry and liti­gious mat­ters and be will­ing to roll up their own sleeves and take ini­tia­tive. This role would suit some­one who has a pas­sion for build­ing strong client rela­tion­ships and proven expe­ri­ence in busi­ness devel­op­ment with a desire to build their own practice. 

The suc­cess­ful can­di­date will be a team play­er, have great com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills, and be will­ing to men­tor oth­ers with­in the team.

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 feel they can inno­vate, col­lab­o­rate and devel­op their careers 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.

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. All appli­ca­tions will be treat­ed in strict confidence.