Litigation Lawyer

A&O Shearman is a new global industry-leading law firm, with nearly 50 offices in 29 countries worldwide. Our fluency in English law, US law, and the laws of the world's most dynamic markets, enables us to provide unmatched insight and seamless delivery to clients. We work on challenging and important deals and disputes that have the potential to shape the future.

We offer exceptional opportunities for our people; opportunities to work for the world's leading businesses; to transform the status quo, and to deliver your best work, helping you and your career to thrive, while delivering unparalleled outcomes for our clients.

Whether you're helping clients solve complex challenges, transforming the ways we manage our business, or ensuring the smooth-running of our operations, this is an environment where you can belong and excel. We provide first-rate training and development, we are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and we provide support and ways of working that help you optimise your wellbeing.

What truly defines a career with us? We recruit the best and ask for the best of you. And together, we will redefine success.

Department purpose
A&O Shearman's global corporate and commercial litigation practice has deep expertise in handling high-stakes, complex and business-critical matters that are frequently cross-border in nature. Our goal is to provide our clients with holistic, practical advice and innovative solutions to their most challenging problems.

Our team has extensive knowledge and experience representing financial institutions, multinational corporates, partnerships, joint ventures, private capital firms and individuals before civil and criminal courts across the globe. We have one of the largest footprints of any litigation practice in the world, and our attorneys are deeply familiar with the legal and procedural landscape in each jurisdiction.

We represent clients across a broad array of industries, including automotive, aviation, chemicals, healthcare, medical devices, media and entertainment, consumer and retail, industrials and manufacturing, mining and metals, real estate, energy, and technology, in addition to our market-leading expertise in complex financial products disputes. Whatever the industry or type of dispute, we provide our clients with pre-litigation counseling and litigation strategies that help them achieve their commercial goals.

We support our clients through every stage of a dispute, from assessing their position to formulating legal strategy and tactics, discovery, resolution negotiation, court proceedings, and, where strategically advantageous, settlement. We are trial-ready and trial-tested.

We handle the full range of corporate and commercial disputes including contractual claims, breach of fiduciary duty, antitrust litigation, M&A litigation, and bankruptcy and insolvency disputes.

We also have extensive experience in class actions and group litigation, business torts, malpractice claims, insurance coverage litigation, securities litigation, fraud and asset tracing litigation, product liability, false advertising and other disputes arising from corporate transactions, alongside our significant white collar criminal defense capabilities.

Success in litigation can take many forms, and our priority is to resolve disputes quickly and effectively with as little disruption to our client's business as possible. We can handle any contentious issue, wherever in the world it occurs. Our attorneys are recognized for the breadth and depth of their experience, having represented many of the world's leading organizations in some of their most challenging, high-profile and sensitive disputes.

Role purpose
We are looking for an Australian qualified lawyer with 3 to 7 years of post-qualification experience to join our Disputes team in Sydney, on a full-time permanent basis. We offer:

• A dynamic work environment and the opportunity to be a part of a leading international law firm.
• A variety of intellectually exciting work and the opportunity to work with other departments in an interdisciplinary way, in Australia, regionally and globally.
• Opportunity to be a part of a dynamic, high-performing team with a friendly and supportive culture.
• National and international secondment programmes to allow our lawyers to work with other departments, other people and to be exposed to the different cultures that the firm encompasses.
• Dedicated local and global training programmes and professional training on communication, IT skills, management and business development skills.

Key requirements

• 3 to 7+ PQE.
• Training from a top tier law firm with previous Disputes/Competition experience, ideally in New South Wales court and national Australia courts system.
• Outstanding academic credentials.
• High level drafting and analytic skills.
• Resilient self-starter with the intellectual curiosity and versatility to continuously acquire, build upon and share knowledge.
• Highly motivated team player with excellent organisational skills.
• Clear and concise communicator with outstanding interpersonal skills and a good eye for detail.
• Entrepreneurial drive and strong commercial acumen.
• A person of sound judgment and core values, able to establish a high level of credibility.

Equal Employment Opportunity
A&O Shearman are committed to supporting a culture that drives inclusion. Every day, we're working hard to create an environment where everyone feels that they can bring their authentic selves to work. To be comfortable and confident to be who they are in the workplace. To feel like they belong.

We welcome applications from people of all ages, genders (including if you identify as transgender or gender diverse), sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, family or caring responsibilities, and people living with a disability. If you need any support to fully participate in the application process, please contact Australian Recruitment for guidance.