Legal Secretary-Health

Brief Description
Hicksons| Hunt & Hunt is a commercial law firm that assists government, companies, organisations, and individuals throughout Australia to create sustainable value through legal and commercial advice, services, and solutions. Our breadth of expertise is reflected in our diverse practice groups and complemented by our industry and sector focus. With offices in Sydney, North Ryde, Newcastle and Griffith, we work across geographies with smart technology to keep connected to our clients.

We pride ourselves on our energy and authenticity to drive client solutions, attract and develop talent and serve our broader community. With a strong history of providing exceptional legal advice, we consider ourselves to be visionary thought leaders who have harnessed our history and experience, emerging as a market-leading legal and advisory business.

THE ROLE & THE TEAM
We're recruiting for a Legal Secretary join our Health team.

Our Health, Abuse and Insurance team represent health providers and facilities in NSW, offering legal advice on a broad range of matters, from straightforward to highly contentious, including nervous shock claims, breaches of consumer laws, and actions against healthcare practitioners, as well as historical abuse claims in an institutional setting.

Our clients include public and private hospitals, medical practitioners, allied healthcare professionals, health services and health and aged care facilities.

Our supportive and inclusive work culture, excellent professional development opportunities, and commitment to client satisfaction, makes Hicksons' an ideal environment to advance your legal career.

What You Bring
The ideal candidate will have experience in:

• Drafting legal documents, court documents and correspondence
• Filing court documents online in various jurisdictions
• Organising and maintaining digital files, data entry and maintenance of Affinity database
• Preparing briefs for Counsel and Medical Experts, including indexing, collating and tabulating documents, and updating briefs during the course of matters.
• Effectively managing and maintaining multiple calendars, monitoring court and client timeframes and providing reminders as necessary
• Arranging meetings, appointments and coordinate travel arrangements
• Monitoring due dates for reports from experts and follow-up outstanding reports/documents
• Monitoring return dates for subpoenas and arrange for produced documents to be copied and follow up outstanding subpoenas
• Billing including preparation and review of draft bills

In this role, you may be exposed to sensitive and delicate content. Mental and emotional agility will be essential in being successful in this position. You will be provided with Vicarious Trauma training, tools and resources to support your development in this area.

WHY CHOOSE HICKSONS| HUNT&HUNT?
Hicksons fosters a diverse and inclusive environment, we capture innovative ideas from our people to build on our business; we welcome your creative ideas to optimize the way we work. We offer a range of benefits and social opportunities to support growth, development and internal networking and collaboration within the firm, collectively celebrating our success through recognition and reward programs.

Supporting You

• Potential unearthed – We pride ourselves on enabling you to achieve your career aspirations. Offering tailored 1:1 mentoring, access to our E-learning platform with role base training, internal and external workshops and complete transparency around our promotional pathways program.
• The right resources – Our workplace is supported by smart technology, paper-light processes, collaborative teams and a healthy values-based culture that will see you perform at your best.
• Flexi-work options – We understand life is not 1 size fits all. Explore options for hybrid work, part time hours, compressed working weeks, and more.
• Performance based rewards and incentive bonuses – our incentive program is designed to reward our employees and support our high-performance culture.
• Hicksons + Benefits – 16 weeks paid gender-neutral parental leave, education assistance, Employee Assistance Program, Birthday leave and #4U leave, plus access to everyday discounts through our corporate discount schemes, and novated leasing.
• Life at Hicksons|Hunt&Hunt – Contributing to our community is part of our Vision; the firm provides you with the opportunity to contribute to the firm's corporate social responsibility activities through our pro-bono program.
• Awards – The 2024 AFR Partnership Survey named Hicksons as the industry leader with the highest proportion of Female Partners for the second year running. In addition, Hicksons has been recognised ABA employer of choice winners (2020, 2023, & 2024).

To have a confidential discussion on the role and our offering, please contact Zahra Nowrouz Tafreshi, Talent Acquisition Manager

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Please note pre-employment screening checks will be conducted on all successful applicants including a national police check.