Paralegal

2 weeks ago

Sydney, Australia Westpac Group Full time

All roles at Westpac Group can be considered for flexible working arrangements, such as flexible hours, working remotely, part time work, or job sharing.

**How will I help?**

Your role as a paralegal in the Subpoenas Team will be to provide guidance and assistance to other teams as required (including responding to requests for information), take receipt of Court orders and documents that are served on Westpac’s registered office and ensure they are passed on to the appropriate teams. You will also provide support to lawyers in the broader legal function.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Review and respond in a timely manner to subpoenas, notices of non-party production and discovery orders served on Westpac Banking Corporation for all bank brands, including St George, BankSA, Westpac and Bank of Melbourne.
- Engage with business stakeholders to collate responsive materials and provide guidance on scoping issues.
- Critically analyse responsive materials for privilege or legal risk, including legal professional privilege and commercially sensitive information.
- Negotiate scope of subpoenas and notices of non-party production with the solicitors of issuing parties.
- Produce materials to the courts in accordance with the relevant court rules.
- Engage with external law firms on behalf of the business to respond to complex subpoenas.
- Provide general paralegal support to lawyers within the Legal and Secretariat function, including collating materials from the business.
- General administrative tasks relating to Westpac’s registered office and subpoenas.
- Take receipt of court documents served on Westpac’s registered office and ensure those documents are delivered to the appropriate team for a response.
- Identify and escalate existing and emerging legal risks and issues to the Practice Leader of the Subpoenas Team. Take reasonable steps to prevent the occurrence of risk incidents or, if an incident does occur, identify it and ensure that it is managed, escalated and resolved appropriately.

**What’s in it for me?**

You’ll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we’ll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You’ll also keep learning to grown, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure. Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.

**What do I need?**

As well as excellent communication, interpersonal skills and attention to detail, you will require the following skills and experience:

- Good understanding of financial services, the Group’s privacy and data security obligations and legal professional privilege.
- Ability to critically review court documents including orders, provide guidance about scoping issues and escalate matters that give rise to questions of privilege, commercial in confidence or privacy.
- Ability to collaborate with business stakeholders and other lawyers within the Legal and Secretariat function. Capable of managing a number of matters and deadlines, and closing matters out in a timely and efficient manner.

**What is it like to work there?**

We aim to provide one big, supportive team to help us achieve our purpose of creating better futures together. As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will get some of the best banking, wealth and insurance benefits in the market.

We back our employees by helping them work towards industry-recognised qualifications, using online learning, training modules and career planning tools for you to grow with us. We will even pay you to do volunteer or community work.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion.

**How do I apply?**

**Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process?

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