Associate Civil Litigation (Victoria)

Avant Law is a National specialist law firm looking for an Associate to join our civil litigation team in Melbourne working under the leadership of Clare Cheesewright 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 advocacy and making a difference for doctors we want to hear from is an opportunity for an experienced lawyer (3-5 PQE) to develop their career working for Australias largest specialist medical defence law firm that has been recognised for its wide range of expertise. This is a permanent full-time role with a hybrid work key responsibilities include:Independently manage a diverse civil litigation file load of varying complexity consistently meeting KPIs and billing targets while delivering high quality member focused legal services to Avant 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 be successful in this role you will have:Relevant tertiary legal to hold an unsupervised practising certificate as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and the High Court of post admission experience (ideally 3-5 years) in medical ability to express ideas effectively with proven excellent written and verbal communication level of prioritisation time management and self-management ability to mentor and support junior team computer literacy and competency to work in an electronic document management work for Avant LawYou would be working for Australias largest specialist medico-legal law will be working under the leadership of a recognised expert in medical defence litigation and provided with are guaranteed a pipeline of work from your instructing client Avant Insurance who are will work with event-based billing (goodbye 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 Law offers a defined career progression and promotion will be working in an open and collaborative environment with access to the top specialist medico-legal solicitors in the working practices offering hybrid is Australias leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 130 now represents over 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 members 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. If you have any queries regarding the role please do not hesitate to contact Camilla Overall Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner on