Personal Assistant - Corporate & Commercial

About the role

HWL Ebsworth Lawyers, one of Australia's largest legal partnerships, is looking for a Personal Assistant to join its Corporate & Commercial Practice Group in the Brisbane office. You will support two Partners and allocated legal staff on a varied, fast-paced workload, with generous leave policies including purchased and parental leave.

Key responsibilities

• Support two Partners and allocated legal staff across a varied and fast-paced workload.
• Manage matters efficiently, keeping files organised and up to date at every stage.
• Prepare and format correspondence and contracts accurately and with attention to detail.
• Check and format lengthy agreements with multiple attachments, working closely with the legal team and external suppliers so documents are accurate, consistently formatted and ready for execution.
• Complete monthly billing using the file management system Aderant.
• Manage diaries and provide broader administrative support.

Required profile

• Ideally experience supporting a Partner or senior executive in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent grammar, spelling and an eye for detail.
• Strong time management and organisational skills, able to prioritise competing demands.
• Full working rights in Australia; applicants are encouraged to come from the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

Required skills

• Advanced Microsoft Word, including styles, formatting, track changes, cross-referencing and long documents.
• Hands-on PDF work, from conversion and markup to redaction and compiling multi-part document sets.
• Microsoft PowerPoint, producing polished, client-ready presentations.
• Experience with Aderant and iManage (or similar systems) is highly regarded.

What we offer

• An office in the Brisbane CBD within a fast-paced, high-networking legal community.
• A friendly, down-to-earth culture.
• A firm consistently ranked at the forefront of the Australian legal market.

To apply, submit your CV through the Apply function on the listing; applicants must have full working rights in Australia.