Senior Associate Environment & Planning

The Opportunity

We have a rare opportunity for an experienced senior associate with strong Planning and Environment experience to join our Band-1 ranked Environment & Sustainable Development team in Sydney.

In this role you will work alongside leading partner and National Practice Head of Environment & Sustainable Development Claire Smith and other experienced senior practitioners nationally. You will act for domestic and global clients on the full gamut of legal services across advice transactions and disputes.

This opportunity will see you apply your specialist Environment & Planning law knowledge to a varied range of intellectually stimulating matters spanning renewable energy climate change ESG corporate transactions infrastructure and precinct scale property development. Claire also has a significant planning and environment disputes practice spanning renewable energy biodiversity waste mining and infrastructure clients.

This role offers the opportunity to work at forefront of some of Australias most complex energy and infrastructure deals climate advisory and major high-stakes planning and environmental disputes.

What We Are Looking For:

• Demonstrated experience as a Senior Associate (at least 6 years PQE) with well-developed technical legal expertise particularly in Planning law;

• The confidence and ability to run matters with minimal partner supervision;

• Exceptional attention to detail;

• Willingness and capability to mentor junior lawyers and contribute to knowledge sharing within the team and firm as well as externally.

The Environment & Sustainable Development Team

Our ESD team is rated as one of only two Tier-1 practices in Australia and has been recognised as the leading team in Australia. We specialise in all areas of environment and planning law for significant federal and state government and private sector clients with a focus on energy linear infrastructure precinct scale developments data centres climate change sustainability water energy resources biodiversity contaminated land and waste.

Our diverse work covers large scale development and infrastructure projects major transactions operational compliance strategic and policy advice incident management litigation and inquiries.

Our clients are both domestic and global operating in a wide range of sectors including government resources energy water infrastructure urban development construction manufacturing transport and logistics waste management health services education and agribusiness.

For further information please visit our Environment & Sustainable Development showcase page on LinkedIn.

How to Apply

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