Legal Assistant or Senior Legal Assistant in Melbourne

You’ll work closely with our legal team to make a meaningful, long-lasting impact for our clients. This role will have a focus on supporting experienced personal injury lawyers across Public Liability claims. This is an excellent opportunity for a legal support professional to continue their professional development in a supportive, flexible workplace. With empathy, adaptability and initiative, you will be a true champion of our clients by:

• Working with our solicitors to successfully support them with day-to-day operations of files/client management.
• Preparing matters for conference and hearing, including preparation of court and legal documents and general correspondence.
• Using your high attention to detail to draft briefs and documents, such as claim forms and schedule of damages.
• Efficiently coordinating medico-legal appointments, compulsory conferences and mediations.
• Cultivating strong relationships with our clients, Shine employees, Counsel and other external stakeholders.
• Supporting our Legal team with optimising the use of internal systems to process information.

What you’ll bring:

• Prior experience as a Legal Assistant or Paralegal across Public Liability cases will make your application competitive but is not essential for success.
• Experience across a busy litigation practice in a similar role.
• Accurate typing skills with intermediate Word & Excel skills.
• Keen eye for detail in your document management and collation skills.
• You’ll be a great communicator both verbally and in writing.
• You’ll recognise and value the importance of your role in being the gateway to support our clients.
• The availability to work Monday - Friday, 38 hours per week. However, if you're looking for a minimum of four (4) days per week, then let's talk!

At Shine, purpose really matters. It’s our clients, who summon the courage to stand up to injustice. It’s the communities we are part of and support every day. It’s our team, who champion what’s right and make this place what it is. We’re an ASX-listed organisation, and we've been standing up for the rights of everyday Australians for more than 50 years. We’ve achieved a lot but you’ll find no airs and graces here. We’re humble yet relentless. We don’t pretend to be anything other than ourselves. And together, we’ve created a place for you to thrive.

Here are some of the things we hope you’ll love about working with us:

• Connect and be you: Get the benefits you need, and work with truly authentic people. And you can enjoy the security of a large, well-established firm that treats you as a person, not a number.
• Challenge and be challenged: We’re not here for “easy”. We want you to take your place at Shine and make a real impact. Question and challenge - that’s how we grow.
• Achieve and grow: Start your Shine journey with our in-house learning programs, where you’ll find immediate connection and be set up for success. You will be provided real opportunities to step up and grow - within your role and beyond.

Excited to join us and stand up to injustice? Join us and build a career that means so much more. As part of The Circle Back Initiative, we want you to feel supported through our recruitment process, which means that you will hear back from our friendly team - no matter the outcome. We are committed to making Shine Lawyers a place for you by encouraging and supporting our people to bring their authentic selves to the workplace, and as a result, we know you’ll put your best self forward while righting wrong for our clients. We’re passionate about maintaining a diverse and inclusive environment here at Shine that celebrates all of our differences with age, disability, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, to name a few, and we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates.