Jobs at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Solicitor supporting commercial litigation, arbitrations, investigations, regulatory inquiries, and complex disputes for national and international clients. Responsibilities include handling files, identifying legal issues, providing solutions, contributing to client outcomes, supporting business development, and collaborating with lawyers across domestic and international offices.

Join a leading Australian corporate M&A practice advising private equity, venture capital, growth equity, and other clients on domestic and international transactions. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating contracts, managing due diligence and deal completion, client interaction, business development, pitching, marketing, and thought leadership. The role requires Australian or New Zealand admission and 2–4 years of corporate M&A experience.

Acts as a senior Workday subject matter expert, leading configuration, optimization, enhancements, projects, testing, troubleshooting, reporting, security, governance, and data integrity. Partners with People Operations, Payroll, Recruitment, IT, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions and improve people processes. Contributes to the People Technology roadmap, evaluates Workday releases, supports change delivery, and mentors team members through training, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

Designs, develops, supports, and maintains automated legal templates and knowledge solutions using Contract Express, SharePoint, Microsoft Power Platform, Power BI, Copilot, and AI platforms. Partners with lawyers, knowledge professionals, Digital, IT, and vendors to deliver practical technology solutions. The role also supports solution prioritization, experimentation with low-code and no-code automation, stakeholder communication, and adherence to workplace safety requirements.

Provides administrative support to the Corporate practice group in a global law firm. Responsibilities include managing competing priorities, assisting with matter management, time recording and invoicing, supporting business development events, handling documents and mail, managing expenses, booking meeting rooms, and performing ad hoc administrative duties. The role requires strong organization, communication, Microsoft Office skills, collaboration, and openness to learning new technology.

Lead business development for the Employment, Industrial Relations and Safety practice by managing pitches, proposals, tenders, credentials, thought leadership, podcasts, events, awards submissions, and market research. The role partners with lawyers, partners, marketing teams, and senior stakeholders to support client development, sector initiatives, and firm-wide growth across Australia.

Provides high-level administrative and practice support to a corporate legal team, including diary and workflow management, document production, client coordination, billing, matter administration, deadline monitoring, and travel arrangements. The role supports senior lawyers in a fast-paced environment, liaises with internal and external stakeholders, promotes efficient technology-enabled work practices, and mentors junior administrative staff.

Manage the collection, review, tracking, filing, and maintenance of client engagement letters and terms across active matters. Coordinate with legal, business development, finance, and administrative stakeholders; identify missing or non-compliant documents; compare terms with firm standards; maintain trackers and databases; archive superseded records; support audits; and respond to internal queries. The role requires strong organisation, communication, document management, and attention to detail.

Advise on complex conflicts, confidentiality, information barriers, sanctions, anti-money laundering, and professional responsibility matters. Review and draft conflicts-related provisions in engagement letters, panel arrangements, client guidelines, RFPs, and firm policies. Liaise with partners and business teams, support global risk management, and contribute to training and awareness initiatives.

Handle Australian and international trademark filings and prosecutions, portfolio management, rebranding and clearance advice, coexistence agreements, IP due diligence, and trademark and domain name disputes. The role supports national and international clients within a leading trademarks and broader intellectual property disputes team in Melbourne or Sydney.

Leads legal operations advisory engagements for corporate legal departments, advising senior stakeholders on operating model transformation, process improvement, legal technology, AI, change management, and service delivery. Manages project scoping, planning, implementation, and client deliverables; facilitates workshops and presentations; develops solutions and research; supports business development; and guides junior team members. Requires strong analytical, data visualization, communication, and client relationship skills.

The Knowledge Lawyer will support the Class Actions practice by developing legal knowledge resources, AI-enabled workflows, client materials, thought leadership, training, and business development initiatives. The role involves monitoring market developments, leveraging matter data and market intelligence, acting as a subject matter expert, and collaborating with partners, business development, learning and development, pricing, and resourcing teams to improve client service, operational efficiency, team capability, and profitability.

Advise clients on funds-related M&A, private capital transactions, structured investments, capital raising, and investment structures. Manage transactions from inception through completion, coordinate due diligence, negotiate sale and governance agreements, draft fund and structured investment documents, and support real asset fund raisings. The role also involves collaborating with tax, real estate, debt, and international teams while developing strong client relationships and delivering commercially focused legal advice.

Senior Associate joining a Tier 1 Class Actions team in Sydney. Responsibilities include managing commercial litigation files, supporting class actions and regulatory investigations, identifying legal issues, developing solutions, delivering excellent client service, collaborating across local and international offices, and contributing to business development. The role requires strong legal skills, practical judgment, effective communication, autonomy, teamwork, and interest in AI and emerging technologies.

Manage and advise on conflicts of interest globally, liaise with partners and practice heads, ensure compliance with sanctions and AML obligations, and review and draft conflict provisions in engagement letters, policies and client agreements. Support firm strategy by assessing new instructions for professional obligations and commercial fit.

Provide competition, consumer law and regulatory advice across investigations, merger clearances, litigation and access/economic regulation. Supervise junior lawyers, manage client relationships, work to tight deadlines, and develop expertise in merger control and emerging technologies.

Lead and advise on public and private M&A and cross-border transactions; draft and negotiate transaction documents; project-manage deals and coordinate global teams and advisers; build client relationships and support business development; mentor junior solicitors and contribute to team development.