Lawyer/Associate - Construction & Infrastructure
Thomson Geer
Date: 9 hours ago
City: Sydney, New South Wales
Contract type: Full time
Thomson Geer is a major growing Australian Corporate law firm with offices in Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Canberra. The firm has more than 700 partners and staff nationally, and offers a dynamic, friendly and professional work environment. We are passionate about constantly providing value to our clients – their business success and our team are our priorities. This focus on client value and our talented team are the key reasons for our success. At Thomson Geer we are looking for candidates who are client focused, commercially minded, work well in a team environment and share similar values to us.
The role
We're looking for an experienced Lawyer/Associate to join our Construction and Infrastructure team located in Sydney reporting into Phillip Coady in a role that includes a combination of front and back end work. In this role, you will be an integral part of a close knit, interactive and high achieving team, working with an industry leaders and experienced practitioners. This role presents an exciting opportunity to work on the negotiation and documentation of major construction and infrastructure projects in Australia for a blue-chip client base. The team has strong transactional experience in sectors including government, PPP, rail, water, mining, telecommunications and renewables.
The position is dynamic, fast-paced and collaborative. It is essential that the successful applicant can demonstrate a high quality proven track record of construction/infrastructure matters, and has a strong commercial acumen.
Your skills and experience
The ideal candidate will be looking for interesting, challenging work with significant client contact and responsibility. To be successful in this role, you will have the following attributes:
As a major corporate firm we pose an opportunity to work with a strong and established client base, genuine growth trajectories, and a variety of benefits including: interesting and challenging pro-bono opportunities, flexible working, generous parental leave, flu vaccinations and skin checks annually, study assistance, sophisticated employee assistance program, daily breakfast, corporate discounts, variety of social activities including EOFY and end of year functions, sporting teams and much more.
We have a collaborative approach to all we do, based fundamentally on openness, transparency, respect and accountability to get the best outcome for our clients and make sure our team are taken care of.
What you need to do
If this sounds like the role for you please submit your application via the "Apply" link below.
The role
We're looking for an experienced Lawyer/Associate to join our Construction and Infrastructure team located in Sydney reporting into Phillip Coady in a role that includes a combination of front and back end work. In this role, you will be an integral part of a close knit, interactive and high achieving team, working with an industry leaders and experienced practitioners. This role presents an exciting opportunity to work on the negotiation and documentation of major construction and infrastructure projects in Australia for a blue-chip client base. The team has strong transactional experience in sectors including government, PPP, rail, water, mining, telecommunications and renewables.
The position is dynamic, fast-paced and collaborative. It is essential that the successful applicant can demonstrate a high quality proven track record of construction/infrastructure matters, and has a strong commercial acumen.
Your skills and experience
The ideal candidate will be looking for interesting, challenging work with significant client contact and responsibility. To be successful in this role, you will have the following attributes:
- Have at least 1-4 years PAE working in a well-regarded law firm with a strong interest in working in a construction and infrastructure
- Strong drafting skills and attention to detail
- Practical and client focused problem solving and research skills
- Sound technical legal ability and a genuine interest in working in the construction and infrastructure sector
- A professional, commercially-astute and proactive approach to matter management
- Ability to manage client expectations and run matters autonomously
- Conscientious and client-focused, and possess strong interpersonal skills
As a major corporate firm we pose an opportunity to work with a strong and established client base, genuine growth trajectories, and a variety of benefits including: interesting and challenging pro-bono opportunities, flexible working, generous parental leave, flu vaccinations and skin checks annually, study assistance, sophisticated employee assistance program, daily breakfast, corporate discounts, variety of social activities including EOFY and end of year functions, sporting teams and much more.
We have a collaborative approach to all we do, based fundamentally on openness, transparency, respect and accountability to get the best outcome for our clients and make sure our team are taken care of.
What you need to do
If this sounds like the role for you please submit your application via the "Apply" link below.
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