Legal Assistant or Senior Legal Assistant - Abuse Law

Want to work in a place that supports you to achieve and grow? Love to be helping clients and supporting teams?  Join us and be the professional and the person you want to be.  

  
 
At Shine, we right wrong for our clients. And as a full-time, permanent Legal Assistant or Senior Legal Assistant in our Abuse Law team based in either our Melbourne CBD or Dandenong team (up to you), that starts with you. You’ll work closely with our legal team to make a meaningful, long-lasting impact for our clients.  
 
This unique role has a strong client focus, with a significant amount of regular client contact. It is an ideal opportunity for an experienced Paralegal who is wanting to stretch themselves, and take even more ownership of client matters.
 
With empathy, adaptability and initiative, you'll support our clients by:   

• Working with our solicitors to successfully support them with day-to-day operations of progressing legal matters.
• Preparing matters for conference and hearing, with high attention to detail.
• Drafting legal documents and briefs, such as claim forms, schedule of damages and general correspondence.
• Efficiently coordinating medico-legal appointments, compulsory conferences and mediations.  
• Cultivating strong relationships with our clients, counsel and other external stakeholders.  
• Supporting our legal team by accurately using and maintaining MatterSphere to record, process and manage information across abuse law claims.

What you’ll bring  

• Previous experience in a paralegal or legal secretary role, ideally with  previous exposure to personal injury or abuse law.
• The empathy and resilience to work in a team where clients may have undergone significant trauma.
• Accurate typing skills with intermediate Word & Excel skills. 
• Attention to detail in your document management, drafting and collation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• You’ll recognise and value the importance of your role in being the gateway to support our clients.  
• Supporting our legal team by accurately using and maintaining MatterSphere to record, process and manage information across institutional abuse law matters.
• The ability to work 38 hours per week, between the hours of 8:15am – 5pm Monday to Friday. And if you prefer four days, let's talk!

Shine Lawyers: A place for you. It means more here.  
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. 

Visit https://www.shine.com.au/careers/life-shine to find out more and read the stories of our incredible people. 
    
Excited to join us and stand up to injustice? Join us and build a career that means so much more.  
 
Apply now and make Shine Justice a place for you.  
 
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. You bring you.