LegalVision is a market disruptor in the commercial legal services industry. Our mission is to power the success of every business by delivering legal support that is proactive, affordable and commercial, and the key way we do this is through our industry-first legal services membership. We have assisted over 200,000 businesses across the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and we’re just scratching the surface. We were named Law Firm of the Year at the 2021 and 2022 Australasian Law Awards and a 5-star Employer of Choice by Australasian Lawyer in 2023.

The Opportunity

We are excited to be recruiting recent law graduates to join LegalVision as part of our July 2024 Graduate Program intake!

The intake will include full-time, permanent roles in the following practice areas:

• Franchising
• Immigration

There will be no rotations. When submitting your application, please indicate your preferred practice area/s.

Successful candidates must be available to commence full-time work in our Sydney office no later than Tuesday, 9 July 2024.

The LegalVision Graduate Program presents a unique opportunity to launch your legal career at Australia’s fastest-growing law firm. LegalVision was founded to improve access for every business to quality legal services, disrupt the traditional law firm model, and promote a culture of technological innovation in Australia and beyond. As a Graduate at LegalVision, you will play a critical role in bringing this mission to life. 

You will receive comprehensive formal and on-the-job training focused on technical legal knowledge, matter management, and client service to give you a strong understanding of the legal needs of Australian businesses, in order to provide pragmatic advice.

What You’ll Be Doing

Under the supervision of our Practice Leaders and Senior Lawyers, you’ll be communicating directly with clients and taking carriage of matters from your first few months! You’ll play a key role in helping clients to efficiently resolve their legal issues while providing an excellent client experience along the way.

Depending on your chosen Practice Area, the responsibilities of our graduate lawyers may include (among other things): 

• Franchising: Advising on all aspects of franchising law, including the preparation of franchising agreements, assisting and advising clients with initial franchise structuring and set-ups, negotiating grants, renewals and surrenders, assisting with franchise sales and buybacks, and advising clients on the management of their franchise network.
• Immigration: Assisting corporate clients and high-profile individuals in relation to employer-sponsored work visas, labour agreements, global talent visas, training visas and business innovation and investor visas.

The Ideal Candidate

• Qualified with strong academics: You are a recent law graduate with strong grades and are either already admitted as a Lawyer or will be admitted by the end of 2024.
• Wants to do things differently and isn’t the average law graduate: You have an entrepreneurial mindset and are keen to grow as a lawyer in an innovative, tech-driven NewLaw environment.
• Passionate about the client experience: You are focused on your clients and you’re dedicated to creating experiences that exceed client expectations.
• Personable, empathetic and resilient: You are friendly, warm and professional. You celebrate the ups and push through and learn from the downs.
• Cool and calm under pressure: You are an organised and efficient worker, and can effectively manage competing priorities.

The Perks

• Fast-paced environment with accelerated growth opportunities for high performers.
• Talented and energetic teammates across Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
• Unlock additional annual leave per year, plus paid birthday leave, volunteering leave, and parental leave.
• Annual budget to spend on external learning and development opportunities.
• Regular firm-wide socials, drinks and team lunches.
• Friendly and relaxed office environment in Surry Hills, super close to Central Station.

Apply Today!

If joining LegalVision as a Graduate Lawyer sounds like the perfect start to your legal career, we’d love to hear from you! Applications close at 11:59 pm AEST on Sunday, 5 May 2024. Applications must be accompanied by your final (or most recent if you haven't yet finished uni) academic transcript.

1. Please let us know which is your preferred practice area?
2. Tell us why you're excited to apply for a graduate role in this practice area!
   

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to participate in a phone screen, followed by an in-person interview at our Surry Hills office.

Good luck!

Our legal team provides commercially focused legal support across the operational and functional divisions of the Pact business on a broad range of subject matters.

Reporting to the General Counsel & Company Secretary, your role sits within the group structure and as such is part of a legal team with a global remit. 

You will partner closely with all areas of our business and external advisors.

Your key responsibilities will be to support and advise in the following areas;

• Commercial Contracting 
• General legal advice
• Dispute resolution
• Regulatory support and advice
• Project and M&A 
• Legal continuous improvement

Your skills and experience

• Prior experience operating at a similar level of general commercial law in a private practice or in-house environment.
• Experience in FMCG, property, competition, dispute resolution, IP, OHS, HR/IR or IT would be advantageous but not essential.
• Proven history successfully advising on legal matters in New Zealand and/or Asia would be advantageous but not essential.
• Excellent oral and written communication, with ability to adjust style appropriate to the audience.
• Ability to quickly form working relationships and gain credibility with senior management.
• Ability to work autonomously and with the support of other members of the legal team as required.
• Understanding and ability to appreciate the strategic and commercial implications of decisions and the impact on the business.
• Innovative, enthusiastic, and versatile with a proactive ‘problem-solving’ approach to practice.
• Professionalism, integrity, and the ability to maintain confidentiality are essential requirements.

• Are you a technical whizz looking for a new challenge?
• Deliver exceptional customer service to troubleshoot our clients’ issues
• Be part of a supportive and nurturing team

ABOUT LEAP
LEAP is the leading provider of Legal Practice Productivity Solutions in the world and is part of ATI – one of the largest international LegalTech companies. For more than 30 years, our curiosity and commitment to continual improvement has kept us reimagining productivity tools for lawyers and their staff to support our guiding purpose, to ‘Help lawyers who help people’. The market leading software we develop and support is used by more than 100,000 lawyers and their staff in small and medium sized law firms.

Working alongside our international team of passionate high achievers, you’ll join a fast-growing technology business where things seldom stay the same for long. With more than 1000 smart, caring and ambitious ‘LEAPsters’ working together across Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Poland and New Zealand, you’ll find yourself in good company here.

About the team
Help is at the heart of everything we do at LEAP and no one knows that better than the friendly faces and voices of our invaluable team. Our entire team are passionate, driven, customer focussed consultants that strive to provide world class services to our clients, who thrive on improving the customer experience as well as driving internal efficiencies.

You will build your product knowledge by resolving product, software and related environmental issues as reported by our clients in a high-volume, transactional environment.

We are looking for two HelpDesk roles available to support our Family Law and Property teams.

What you'll do

• Provide excellent customer service whilst resolving LEAP product queries in an accurate and timely manner
• Answer general client software and hardware queries
• Action inbound and outbound calls as assigned to achieve daily KPIs
• Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve application issues
• Capture notes using standard notes template in CRM, including recording detailed information for all calls requiring further escalation
• Maintain LEAP software knowledge against the capability matrix

What you'll bring

• Technical expertise – you will have a strong technical background, confident in cmd command prompts, interpreting xml files,  and be capable of independently resolving client related tech issues within LEAP software
• A passion for providing excellent customer service and seeing problems through to resolution.
• Proven ability to manage high-volume, transactional calls.
• Competence in MS Office
• Building customer loyalty – you effectively meet customer needs, build productive customer relationships, and take responsibility for customer satisfaction and loyalty.
• Technical / professional knowledge and skills – you’ve achieved a good level of technical and professional skill, and understanding of relevant areas of law, and you keep up with current developments and trends in those areas of expertise.
• High impact communication – you can clearly and succinctly convey information and ideas to individuals and groups in a variety of situations. You communicate in a focused and compelling way.
• A proactive approach. You take prompt action to accomplish objectives, taking action to achieve goals beyond what is required.
• Managing work (includes time management) – effectively managing one’s time and resources to ensure that work is completed efficiently
• Demonstrated ability to learn new skills – you can assimilate and apply new job-related information in a timely manner.

What you’ll get

• Friendly, supportive, and driven culture
• Generous Parental Leave benefits
• One additional paid "Be Me" leave day per year to celebrate being you!
• Complimentary gym membership
• Fully stocked pantry
• Monthly massages
• Monthly celebrations for birthdays, work anniversaries, new joiners
• Opportunity to participate in our Employee Share Plan