Legal Assistant (GL)

Brisbane - Australia

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 16 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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 36 years of experience and service to our clients.

We recognise the importance of offering our staff not only the best work in our specialist areas but also a culture which embraces flexibility individuality integrity and education. At Carter Newell we encourage the best use of all skills and experience of our staff providing greater efficiency and overall job satisfaction. Our strong culture is the backbone of our success supported by the firms values.

The Position

We are seeking a proactive and experienced Legal Assistant to join our Brisbane office providing high-level support to a Partner Stephanie Huestis and her team of lawyers who are highly regarded specialists in personal injury property and product liability.

This is an exceptional opportunity to work alongside a leading practitioner who is building her practice and delivering complex high-value outcomes for local and international insurers brokers corporate clients and more.

As a Legal Assistant you will be a key contributor to the teams success helping manage the administrative and organisational aspects of the practice. Your role will include:

Managing own and work authors emails as required including ensuring timely filing of emails filtering incoming correspondence proactively dealing with queries and meeting invites
Coordinating and producing compliant documents matter lifecycles and correspondence including preparation of briefs for counsel.
Conflict searches.
Assisting work authors with expense claims in a timely manner.
Assisting with the production signing and mailing of monthly bills for work authors
Diary management travel booking and handling of telephone calls; and
Associated administrative duties.

Essential Experience and Criteria

To be successful in this role you will possess:

Relevant experience in a legal support role preferably within an insurance environment with exposure to general liability matters.
Intermediate skills in Microsoft Office products with good typing and word processing skills.
Proactive positive and responsive can do approach with the ability to learn things quickly.
Highly developed interpersonal and effective time management skills
Ability to work in a team environment and be flexible to meet team requirements.

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
16 weeks paid gender-neutral parental leave
Leave of absence public holiday swap 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

How to Apply

To make a confidential application please Apply Now or contact our People and Culture Team at

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.

Required Experience:

Junior IC

The FirmCarter 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 36 years of experience and service to our clients.We recognise the importance of offering our staff not only the b...