Legal Assistant

The Firm

Carter Newell Lawyers is an award-winning specialist law firm providing legal advice to Australian and international corporate clients. Founded in 1989, we are proud to celebrate 37 years of experience and service to our clients.

The Position

We are seeking an experienced Legal Assistant to join our General Liability team in our Sydney office. The role involves providing high level secretarial support across a unique mix of insurance matters.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Producing accurate firm compliant documents and correspondence, including briefs for counsel.
• Managing the matter lifecycle from file opening to closure and archival, following the firm’s conflicts process, managing information barriers and contributing to the effective management of electronic content.
• Preparing, editing, finalising and posting monthly bills and narratives for work authors.
• Managing internal and external appointments and coordinating travel.
• Managing own and work author’s email, including ensuring timely filing of emails, filtering incoming correspondence, proactively dealing with queries and meeting invites.
• Assisting work authors with expense claims.
• Arranging couriers through reception.
• Providing general administrative support to the work authors.

Skills and Experience

• 3+ years relevant work experience.
• Experience working within an insurance legal team is desirable.
• Intermediate skills in Microsoft Office products with good typing and word processing skills.
• High attention to detail with a proactive, positive “can do” approach, with the ability to learn quickly.
• Highly developed interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport with internal and external clients.
• Effective time management organisation with the ability to reprioritise as schedules change.
• Ability to work in a team environment.

Benefits

At Carter Newell we are a professional team and have a strong client focus, but we love to have some fun along the way. We also provide:

• A healthy approach to flexibility that looks different for each of us.
• 20 weeks paid gender-neutral parental leave.
• Leave of absence, public holiday swap, purchased leave and study assistance policies.
• A wellbeing program with an annual wellbeing allowance, mental health support, and a focus on work-life balance – over 20% of our firm are trained as Mental Health First Aid Officers.
• A genuine commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging with dedicated subcommittees for Pride, Women, Cultural, and Ability & Wellbeing – ensuring real action, not just words.

Benefits are subject to applicable policies and eligibility requirements.

How to Apply

To make a confidential application, please click ‘Apply Now’ at the top of the page, or contact our People & Culture team at careers@carternewell.com.

Carter Newell is an equal opportunity employer, and we value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. We welcome applications from individuals of diverse ages, abilities, cultural backgrounds, genders, LGBTIQA+ people and those with carer responsibilities. We particularly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply.