Legal Assistant jobs

• Join a passionate team who really care about our clients
• Work with authentic, supportive people who are truly invested in you
• Get the flex you need, with work from home and flexible options

A place for you. It means more here. We bring true purpose, authentic people and a proven path. You bring you.

The Opportunity

At Shine, we champion better justice for our clients. And as a permanent Paralegal in our Legal Costing team based in Melbourne CBD, that starts with you. With the skills of a legal assistant or senior legal assistant, with exposure working within personal injury teams, you’ll provide paralegal support to our Victorian legal costing solicitor team as they maximise cost recoverability throughout the lifecycle of a case.

While this is a full-time role, we are open to part-time or flexible work arrangements of at least four (4) days per week for the right candidate.

Reporting to the National Legal Costing Manager, with empathy, adaptability and initiative, you will be a true champion of our clients by:

• Acting as the primary point of contact for inbox enquiries, directing requests appropriately and escalating matters to costing solicitors.
• Extracting and preparing work-in-progress data from internal systems for solicitors to review.
• Verifying data integrity of time entries, and costs for matters.
• Drafting itemised client accounts for costing solicitor review.
• Managing the legal costing team’s worklist, tracking progress and ensuring timely updates.
• Assisting in preparing files for external cost assessors.
• Performing data entry and reconciliation tasks.
• Completing other ad hoc administrative duties as required.

What you’ll bring

• Previous experience working in personal injury team/s will make your application competitive.
• Proven experience as a legal assistant or senior legal assistant is essential for success.
• Accurate typing skills with intermediate Word & Excel skills.
• Keen eye for detail in your document management and collation skills.
• You’ll be a great communicator both verbally and in writing.
• You’ll recognise and value the importance of your role in being the gateway to support our clients.
• The ability to work 38 hours per week, between the hours of 8:15am – 5pm Monday to Friday, and if you'd prefer 4 days, let's talk!

Shine Lawyers: A place for you. It means more here.

At Shine, purpose really matters.

• It’s our clients, who summon the courage to stand up to injustice.
• It’s the communities we are part of and support every day.
• It’s our team, who champion what’s right and make this place what it is.

We’re an ASX-listed organisation, and we've been standing up for the rights of everyday Australians for more than 45 years. We’ve achieved a lot but you’ll find no airs and graces here. We’re humble yet relentless. We don’t pretend to be anything other than ourselves. And together, we’ve created a place for you to thrive.

Here are some of the things we hope you’ll love about working with us:

• Connect and be you: Get the benefits you need, and work with truly authentic people. And you can enjoy the security of a large, well-established firm that treats you as a person, not a number.
• Challenge and be challenged: We’re not here for “easy”. We want you to take your place at Shine and make a real impact. Question and challenge - that’s how we grow.
• Achieve and grow: Start your Shine journey with our in-house learning programs, where you’ll find immediate connection and be set up for success. You will be provided real opportunities to step up and grow - within your role and beyond.

Visit https://www.shine.com.au/careers/life-shine to find out more and read the stories of our incredible people.

Excited to join us and stand up to injustice? Join us and build a career that means so much more. Apply now and make Shine Justice a place for you.

As part of The Circle Back Initiative, we want you to feel supported through our recruitment process, which means that you will hear back from our friendly team – no matter the outcome.

We are committed to making Shine Lawyers a place for you by encouraging and supporting our people to bring their authentic selves to the workplace, and as a result, we know you’ll put your best self forward while righting wrong for our clients. We’re passionate about maintaining a diverse and inclusive environment here at Shine that celebrates all of our differences with age, disability, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, to name a few, and we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates. You bring you.