Legal Assistant

Admin / Secretarial / Office Support
- Secretary
- Brisbane
- Permanent / Full Time

10/9/2024
- Recognised in the AFR BOSS Magazine's Best Places to Work 2024.
- Join a modern, market-leading law firm that puts its people first.
- A truly flexible workplace, plus great people, great culture and great work

**About you**

To be considered for this role, you will be able to demonstrate:

- Minimum of two years secretarial experience in a law firm or relevant transferrable administrative experience (litigation experience would be advantageous but not essential)
- Strong organisational skills and enjoy collaborating with other team members in a fast-paced environment.
- Positive and enthusiastic in all that you do and willing to take on new things and challenge yourself.
- Exceptional communication skills (written and verbal).
- Ability to liaise with a range of different stakeholders, including Partners, senior team members and clients.
- Self-motivation with the ability to multi-task and meet strict deadlines.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Customer-centric approach.
- A proactive and flexible attitude.

**Your role**

We are seeking a motivated and experienced Legal Assistant to join our Litigation & Corporate Recovery Services practice group in a permanent, full-time position. The group covers a range of legal services in the areas of banking and commercial litigation, corporate and personal insolvency, and financial services regulatory work representing local and national clients.

Working with leading Partners in their field, this role will primarily focus on providing secretarial and administrative support for two Partners. This work includes banking litigation, such as enforcement of mortgages and other securities, as well as general commercial, insolvency, as well as financial services regulatory work with a focus on regulatory investigations. Some of our clients include Australia's largest retail, commercial and agribusiness banking and financial institutions. You will collaborate with other Secretaries, Paralegals and Solicitors to service clients.

Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

- Preparation of documents and correspondence
- File maintenance - opening, closing and archiving files (electronic and physical filing)
- Secretarial/administrative support to multiple authors
- Attending to telephone calls and enquiries (incoming and outgoing)
- Preparing bills, cheque requisitions and other accounts related matters
- Maintaining databases and contact registers for fee earners
- Preparation and collation of mail including scanning, faxing, and printing

**About Gadens**

Gadens is the only law firm to be recognised in AFR BOSS Magazine’s Best Places to Work 2024, which ranks Australia and New Zealand’s best workplaces across nine different industries.
We are a leading, independent Australian law firm, with a clear vision and strategy for the future. We help people achieve their purpose in a complex world, by leading by example, inspiring others, innovating and building something we are all proud of. We have an aggressive growth strategy and as part of our evolution and journey, we are creating a modern law firm and will present to the market a new, exciting offering that will rival Australia’s top tier firms.

At Gadens, we:

- Develop and inspire our people
- Do the right thing and make an impact
- Work with quality clients in our chosen markets
- Solve problems with people and technology working seamlessly together
- Are a widely recognised and respected brand.

**What we offer**

We offer:

- A friendly, down-to-earth, and supportive team environment.
- Truly flexible work practices.
- Progressive and market-leading Parental Leave support including:

- o 30 weeks' Paid Parental Leave
- o Superannuation contributions while on Parental Leave, for up to 52 weeks (based on 5 days/week, regardless of your working days)
- o An external coach to support our people through the various stages of the parental leave journey (Launch, Leave and Landing)
- o A supported and staggered return
- o Budget relief for fee earners upon landing/return
- o Support and paid leave for Surrogacy and IVF treatment
- Ongoing professional development opportunities.
- Health and wellbeing initiatives.
- And much more

At Gadens, we engage with all of our people to create a work environment that encourages and promotes inclusion and diversity, while instilling pride in the firm and our values of excellence, collaboration, stewardship, positivity, responsibility and integrity. Our values and culture assist us in creating a cohesive environment in which we are committed equally to professionalism and personal fulfilment. We strive to create a culture where the principles of sustainability and corporate social responsibility are embraced and lived by our people every day. This includes respecting and connecting with First Nations people, and providing access to justice to those in need through our pro bo