Jobs at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

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missing or non-compliant documents; compare terms with firm standards; maintain trackers and databases; archive superseded records; support audits; and respond to internal queries.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.

Provide employment law and industrial relations advice to blue-chip clients, including workforce strategy, enterprise bargaining, disputes, industrial action, compliance, safety, payroll, M&A transactions, and regulatory matters. Represent clients before industrial regulators, the Fair Work Commission, and courts. Collaborate with leading partners while developing expertise in a market-leading practice.

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.

Provides administrative support to the Sydney Disputes practice group, including matter management, time recording, invoicing, event coordination, document handling, expense management, meeting-room bookings, mail, and other ad hoc tasks. The role requires strong organisation, communication, prioritisation, stakeholder management, and Microsoft Office skills. It is an 18-month maximum-term contract supporting career development in a global law firm.

Provides employee lifecycle support across onboarding, transfers, leave, departures, documentation, HRIS data management, inductions, employee queries, audits, compliance, reporting, and wellbeing initiatives. The role uses Workday and other digital tools, supports process improvement and People projects, coordinates with IT, Payroll, and Finance, and maintains accurate employee records and resources.

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.

Advise clients on improving legal-function effectiveness through operating model design, process improvement, resourcing strategy, technology, and AI adoption. Lead end-to-end project design and delivery, facilitate workshops, develop digital and legal engineering solutions, manage client relationships, support business development, and contribute to strategic initiatives. The role also involves stakeholder influence, client-facing communication, change management, design thinking, data analysis, and mentoring within a multidisciplinary team.

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.

Support the firm's information security, privacy, risk and compliance programs across Australia and Asia. Manage ISO 27001/ISMS activities, client security/privacy requests and audits, risk assessments, awareness and training, user behaviour and data leakage alerts, stakeholder guidance, and regional privacy implementation to ensure regulatory and client compliance.

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.