Legal Team Manager

Avant Law is a national specialist law firm looking for a Legal Team Manager to join our team in Sydney working closely with specialist Head of Practice Paul Tsaousidis and joining a team of purpose-driven lawyers who are passionate about defending medical practitioners. If you are looking for a law firm without daily billable targets and instead focussed upon collaboration mentoring advocacy and making a difference for doctors we want to hear from is an opportunity for an experienced medical defence lawyer to progress their career and lead Avant Laws Professional Conduct Team. We seek an applicant with experience in managing and/or supervising medical defendant lawyers and has a genuine interest in mentoring the next generation of lawyers in this specialised area of is a full-time permanent position based out of our Sydney office with hybrid working arrangements. The key responsibilities include:Conducting own professional conduct caseload whilst managing the professional conduct team in accordance with the KPIs ensuring targets are met and high quality legal services are and supervision of lawyers with a range of PQE experience to deliver sustainable timely and efficient legal services in order to achieve the best possible outcomes for both the membership and the member as well as reduction in cycle times accurate reserve and reduction in external legal and supporting the Head of Practice Legal and as appropriate the Head of Avant Law and General Manager Professional Conduct on State legal trends issues reforms significant cases and other developments relevant to the Practice complex claims review and draft oral and written legal advice concerning professional conduct matters including Medicare and Professional Service Review matters; matters before the Health Care Complaints Commission; Medical Council of NSW; NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT); Aphra/Medical Board of Australia; and Coronial investigations & complex general medico-legal advice to Avant members as members in legal proceedings including preparing for and attending court tribunals or inquiries and through clear and persuasive advocacy achieve the best outcome for the of resourcing and workflows within the professional conduct team and ensuring the management of claims in accordance with agreed protocols standards and procedures of Avant Law and professional and ethical standards with documented standards and procedures consistently mentoring and development of the professional conduct team (lawyers and paralegals) to enable career development for staff within the Avant Law be successful in this role you will have:10 years PQE with demonstrated post admission experience in health law specifically professional conduct related tertiary legal qualifications with a current unsupervised practising certificate as a Solicitor in in leadership or strong interest in the development of people leadership skills with proven ability to manage mentor and support a team of health law in developing relationships and understanding and balancing member business and team communication and time management work for Avant Law You would be working for Australias largest specialist medico-legal law are guaranteed a pipeline of work from your instructing client Avant Insurance who are will work with event-based billing (goodbye to 6 minute units and daily billable targets!)You will get to work on a great variety and breadth of cases but with a focus on medical indemnity will be working in an open and collaborative environment with access to the top specialist medico-legal solicitors in the working practices. Avant is Australias leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 130 years. Avant now represents 90000 health practitioners and medical students across every state and territory delivering market leading products and services to meet their professional personal and practice needs. Building on this heritage our vision is to be the most trusted professional partner in supporting doctors throughout their lives and a mutual organisation owned by members and run purely for their benefit our members are at the centre of all we do. As well as providing products and services to our member we play a broader community role by advocating for improvements in the healthcare system and in quality safety and professionalism in medicine through delivering education and research prefer to deal with candidates directly. For further information on this role please contact Camilla Overall Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner on for a confidential discussion or apply via the advert link.