 
						Associate: Environment
16 hours ago
**Associate: Environment & Planning**
**The opportunity**
- Are you ready to make your mark as part of the Environment and Planning Practice in our Melbourne office?
At White & Case, we’ll support you, give you responsibility and welcome you as an integral member of our diverse, international team from day one. We foster a collegial working environment where partners are friendly and accessible, and colleagues always supportive and open to questions.
**Key responsibilities**
- Working closely with partners and team members on a diverse range of client mandates, often in new or emerging new fields such as offshore wind, pumped hydro and hydrogen projects
- Drafting and reviewing legal documentation and advice
- Conducting legal and technical research
- Working directly with clients and their technical advisers and consultants
- Drafting of basic filings addressed to courts and authorities, and support and project management in environmental panel and inquiry hearings.
- Due diligence - analysis of environmental reports, approvals, and planning systems, and drafting commercially-focused reports.
- Drafting legal memoranda on broad range of topics arising under environmental and planning law
- Providing direct assistance to senior lawyers on matters arising during day-to-day provision of legal services to leading international and domestic corporate clients
- Joining educational seminar and practice groups
**The skills and attributes we are looking for**
- Admitted to practice in Australia with a PQE of 1-3 years.
- A desire to work collaboratively as part of a high-performing team to deliver innovative solutions and ensure the best result for the client.
- Possesses good commercial and business acumen.
- Strong time management skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks.
- Excellent communication, drafting and negotiation skills and attention to detail.
- Willingness to be proactive, resourceful, and taking the initiative.
- Strong academic record and intellectual curiosity, creative thinker
**What We Offer**
- At White & Case, you can make a real difference, work on cutting-edge deals that make the headlines and help shape the world we live in. We live by our values—to be pioneering, united and human—and we believe that you’ll experience them from your first day. We will give you the support and training that will help you achieve your potential as a global lawyer.
- We believe that consistent high performance merits reward and support. Our compensation package reflects your calibre as a lawyer and our benefits are designed to support your changing needs and priorities across different life stages.
We offer high-quality, internationally oriented work on the most challenging matters and an opportunity to work as part of a truly global organisation.**About White & Case**
- We are a global law firm with longstanding offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, our cross-border integration, and our depth of local, US and English-qualified lawyers help our clients work with confidence in any one market or across many.
Since our arrival in Australia in 2016, our Australian practice has grown to 34 partners and 100+ lawyers across Sydney and Melbourne. Our teams work with clients in every state of Australia, across the Asia-Pacific region and around the globe on all aspects of the energy, infrastructure, power (including renewable energy) mining & metals sectors, and on high-profile public market and private equity M&A transactions.
**How to apply**
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Primary Location: Australia-Melbourne
Expected Workplace: Hybrid
Job Posting: Oct 31, 2024, 1:10:10 AM
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