Legal Team Manager

2 days ago

Melbourne, Australia Avant Full time

Avant Law is Australia’s largest specialist medical indemnity law firm and is recognised for its wide range of expertise. There are specialists in every practice area across Australia, many of whom have been recognised as experts in medical defence. Avant Law is an incorporated legal practice and acts on the instructions of Avant Mutual, Australia’s leading medical defence organisation.
Avant Law is recruiting for an experienced health lawyer to lead a team of high-performing and collaborative lawyers specialising in professional conduct matters (including Ahpra investigations, Medicare reviews, Coronial Investigations, HCC conciliations).
We are looking for a proven leader who will support the Head of Practice Caroline Tuohey in the delivery of high quality and timely legal services while fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.
**The key responsibilities include**:

- Lead the team to and personally provide expert legal advice and prepare and manage legal files relating to claims and/or complaint files and other matters.
- Represent members in courts and/or tribunals and/or inquiries.
- Provide a professional, thorough and effective legal service to achieve the best outcome for Avant’s members.
- Provide oral and written legal advice to members and Avant Claims Managers and other internal clients concerning legal claims and/or complaints and also general medico-legal advice.
- Personally conduct claims and/or complaints of greater complexity, higher value and/or more significant consequences than claims and/or complaints handled by Solicitors.

**To be successful in this role you will have**:

- Experience in leadership or strong interest in the development of people leadership skills.
- Defence medical negligence and insurance law experience ideal.
- Demonstrated health law knowledge.
- Proactive in developing relationships and understanding and balancing member, business and team requirements.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Strong time management and multi-tasking skills.

Why work for Avant Law?
- You would be working for Australia’s largest specialist medico-legal law firm.
- You are guaranteed a pipeline of work from your instructing client, Avant Insurance, who are co-located.
- You will get to work on a great variety and breadth of cases but with a focus on medical indemnity claims.
- You will be working in an open and collaborative environment with access to the top specialist medico-legal lawyers in the country.
- Comprehensive in-house professional development and career progression opportunities.
- Flexible working practices.

Why work at Avant?
- At Avant, our people are the centre of everything we do for our members. We offer a range of benefits and opportunities to enable you to make a difference, learn, and grow in your career.
- We value our people by offering an inclusive workplace with a diverse range of benefits, flexible working options, career development, and internal mobility opportunities. Our flexible working arrangements are designed to enable genuine work-life balance.
- Your development is our priority and we have a variety of learning and development programs that will support you in your career.
- We offer support to our people via Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Health and Wellbeing programs, Tertiary Education Sponsorship and Support.
- We have a diverse and connected work environment where your contribution and ideas will be valued and respected and make a real difference to the lives of others.

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