Lawyer/Associate - Probity

6 days ago

Canberra, ACT, Australia Maddocks Full time

We are a modern Australian law firm with a leading reputation. We focus on exceptional service, operational excellence, and being at the forefront of employee experience. We work closely with Australian and international businesses, organisations, and governments.

About the role

We are currently looking for Lawyers/Associates (2-5 years PQE) to join our growing and high-performing Public Law - Probity team led by Partners Simonetta Astolfi and Sunny Leow.

The work involves providing pragmatic, solutions-focused commercial advice, governance advice, contract drafting, procurement, grants, and probity advice to Commonwealth Government agencies (including at senior levels), collaborating with other lawyers and our clients, and generally supporting the Partners to build and maintain a strong team environment. You will have the opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment on a variety of complex, sensitive, interesting, and nation-building projects. Things are never dull in this team

About you

Ideally, you will have experience advising clients and helping solve problems and enjoy working collaboratively and contributing to a team environment. You should bring a sense of openness to learning new skills, and you will bring a level of common sense, emotional intelligence, and pragmatism to your practice of the law. You should be able to understand the 'big picture', as well as having strong attention to detail and sound technical legal drafting and statutory interpretation skills.

You will also have the following skills and experience:

  • 2-5+ years' experience as a lawyer working with government clients
  • Contracting, procurement, and/or grant experience
  • An understanding of probity, integrity in the public sector, and governance principles
  • General legal experience (whether that's in dispute resolution, commercial law, administrative law, or general public law)
  • Strong emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills
  • Experience working collaboratively in a team environment
  • A keenness to learn

We are open to this being located in Canberra or Melbourne, and we work flexibly at Maddocks with part of our week in the office.

Maddocks is simply a great place to do great work. We foster a culture of collaboration, learning, and engagement where you will experience:

A diverse and inclusive workplace: We have been named an employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workforce Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) every year since 2004 along with being named a Silver Employer at the Australian Workplace Equality Index's 2024 LGBTQ Inclusion Awards. We promote diversity internally through our Maddocks Gender Equality Network, Maddocks CALD, Maddocks Disability Inclusion, and Maddocks Pride groups.

Career Development: Learn and develop through structured learning and development programs at each stage of your career and study support programs.

Community involvement: Give back to the communities in which we operate through our thriving pro bono and grants programs and staff volunteering initiatives.

Work flexibly: Work in a hybrid way with part of your week in the office and support to set up your home office.

Wellbeing & Benefits: Access to up to 20 weeks paid parental leave, discounted gym memberships & health insurance, salary continuance insurance, Employee Assistance Program, and parents and carers wellbeing programs.

Our people are our greatest advocates and we believe this is a result of our inclusive culture and focus on complex and interesting work.

To be eligible for this role you must be an Australian citizen or eligible for Australian citizenship due to the nature of government work.

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