Associate - Personal Injury

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Kennedys is seeking a highly motivated Associate to join our Sydney office and contribute to our expanding Liability practice.

Working alongside one of Australia's leading personal injury Partners, Lucinda Lyons, and her experienced legal team, you will gain substantial exposure to diverse insurance matters including complex liability and high-value personal injury cases. This role offers the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to case outcomes while developing your expertise in a supportive, collaborative environment.

As an accredited specialist in personal injury law, Lucinda brings extensive experience in coverage advice, defence strategies, commercial guidance, and conducting both criminal and civil litigation. Her expertise encompasses sexual abuse claims and matters within the disability sector.

Case Types You'll Handle

• High-value personal injury claims
• Defective premises and property damage matters
• Product and public liability cases
• Both pre-litigation and litigated files

What We're Looking For

Experience Requirements

• 2+ years PQE in one or more of the following areas:

• TPD (Total and Permanent Disability) claims

• Life insurance matters
• Superannuation law
• Policy interpretation
• General liability (defence or plaintiff experience)
• Insurance and personal injury defence matters

Essential Skills

• Strong knowledge of litigation and insurance law, including personal injury and public liability
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
• Proven ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team
• Experience communicating effectively with experts across multiple disciplines
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work with people at all levels

Why Join Kennedys?

This position offers exceptional professional development opportunities within a respected global firm, working on challenging and varied matters that will enhance your legal expertise and career trajectory.

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.

• where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.

About Kennedys
Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,750 people worldwide across 48 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.

Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

What do we have to offer?
We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.

Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive and distinctive. Our values are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.

The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles. A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.

We strive to celebrate diversity, empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority. We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work. Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.

Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.