The Opportunity
We are seeking a Real Estate Solicitor to join our new, global, Digital Legal Delivery practice to be based in Melbourne or Sydney.
As a Solicitor in the Real Estate team within our Digital practice, you will contribute to the team's excellent client service delivery, and will play a significant role in the team's ongoing success and continued growth.
In this role, you will be responsible for Digital’s real estate legal work, including Digital’s volume leasing matters (commercial, industrial and retail); and due diligence and transaction support.
Working closely with the Manager, your role will include:
Leasing: Deliver high-quality work and handle a high volume of leasing matters across commercial, industrial, and retail sectors. This includes drafting, reviewing, and negotiating leases and related documents, as well as preparing lease reviews and summaries.
Mentoring: Supervise and mentor junior team members, providing regular feedback as part of structured coaching meetings.
Client Communication: Establish and maintain strong relationships as a client contact with key stakeholders from a number of clients you will regularly deal with.
Teamwork and Relationship Building: Collaborate and work closely with your team members across both Sydney and Melbourne offices, as well as the firm’s global network to deliver high-quality work on more complex and larger deals.
Innovation: Support the design and implementation of tech-driven improvements and processes for improved efficiencies, as well as matter management and reporting.
Technical and Knowledge Excellence: Stay up-to-date with relevant areas of law and act as an emerging technical expert in those areas, supported by the firm’s excellent knowledge and training resources.
Firm Values: Uphold the firm’s values, contribute to firm initiatives, and cultivate an excellent reputation and profile both in the market and internally.
In addition to this you will be expected to:
Make recommendations for improvements in the quality and efficiency of service delivery. In doing so, you will be supported to explore/challenge how legal technology (such as artificial intelligence software, contract automation, and collaboration portals) and legal process can drive efficiencies for HSF and our clients.
Work as part of the broader Digital team including being a key contact for Real Estate in Australia and across our global network.
Provide any other assistance to the business on client matters and related tasks as required.
You will gain exposure to a wide range of blue-chip clients, innovative legal technology, global strategic projects, and best of all, work in a truly collaborative and caring culture, which is dedicated to offering an exceptional and rewarding experience to our people and clients.
To be successful in this role, you will have:
ideally 2+ years' of property/leasing experience.
a current unrestricted practicing certificate.
leasing experience to include drafting and negotiating leases and related documents. Experience working in a high volume leasing practice will be highly regarded.
experience in undertaking due diligence exercises as part of property and corporate transactions.
solid technical legal skills, including drafting, negotiation and matter management skills.
excellent communication skills and ability to demonstrate collegiality within a team;
have a hunger to learn and develop, and be part of maintaining a market-leading practice.
The team:
Our Digital Legal Delivery combines the best analytical legal minds backed by investments in cutting-edge tools and technologists.
Continuing to support our clients, we deliver a holistic response to clients and our problem solvers support businesses needing invention and fresh thinking from their legal advisers alongside the technical excellence you expect from a leading global law firm.
Leveraging experience to map the intersections where people and tech deliver results, our group supports businesses undergoing their own digitisation projects and those who seek freedom from the manual and inefficient processes of traditional legal services delivery.
Experienced at delivering large and complex legal services, we are experts in the delivery of data-intensive mandates.
Imagining possibilities, our Digital Legal Delivery group is implementing the best solutions today, while experimenting with emerging tools to understand their practical applications for tomorrow.
Evolving through design thinking, legal project management, advisory and new law frameworks, generative AI came as no surprise to HSF’s digital team, neither will the next big digital transformation.
Herbert Smith Freehills is proud to be awarded Number 1 ‘Attraction Firm’ (Lawyers Weekly Legal Firm of Choice 2022-23), Law Firm of the Year (Australasian Law Awards, 2021) and Most Innovative International Law Firm, Asia Pacific (Financial Times Awards 2020).
What you can expect from us:
We’re a world leading international law firm with a global team of over 5,000 professionals. As the market leader in Australia, we are committed to high performance, collaboration, diversity and digital innovation. We are client-centred, commercially driven, and renowned for our solution-focused expertise. We will align your growth with our ambitions.
We make your personal and professional growth our business. And as part of the team, our ambition is yours too. Wherever you are in your career: grow and help the firm grow with you.
We will provide opportunities to learn on the job as well as a mix of learning opportunities tailored to you. Daily experiences, supportive challenges, team collaboration, mentors, and structured learning opportunities help you to expand your knowledge and reach your goals.
We value your wellbeing, both at home and work and we place a strong emphasis on mental health. If you need support, you’ll have it and we’ll empower you to harness your personal strengths, navigate uncertainty, embrace opportunities, and effectively manage things within your control.
For more benefits on offer such as our 26 weeks paid parental leave, holistic wellbeing fund or home office allowance please click/ copy this link into your browser - https://marketing.hsf.com/20/29354/landing-pages/hsf-benefits.pdf
Join us to be part of a human, bold and outstanding team at Australia’s market leading law firm.
We encourage applications from individuals of diverse backgrounds, including but not limited to First Nations, LGBTIQA+ and neurodivergent individuals, as well as individuals of all ages, cultures, genders, and abilities. We’re a safe, inclusive, and equitable workplace and celebrate the diversity of our people.
For any questions or a confidential discussion, please contact Lindsay Kay , Senior Recruitment Advisor on Lindsay.Kay@hsf.com or 0428 281 117.
This vacancy is being managed directly by Herbert Smith Freehills Recruitment team. We will contact our preferred agency partners should we require additional assistance. Thank you.
Team
Digital Legal Delivery
Full time
Location
Melbourne, Sydney
Contract type
Permanent Contract
Diversity & Inclusion
At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.
We understand that you have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to create a working environment based on mutual trust and respect, in which you can perform at your best whilst maintaining sustainable balance across your life.
