Ashurst Reach Legal Consultant – Junior Lawyer (1-2 PQE) - Brisbane

at  Ashurst LLP

ABOUT ASHURST:

Ashurst is a leading global law firm with a history spanning more than 200 years, and clear strategy for our future growth. Our in-depth understanding of our clients and commitment to providing exceptional standards of service have seen us become a trusted adviser to local and global corporates, financial institutions and governments in all areas of commercial law.
In order to comply with regulatory and client requirements, Ashurst will undertake appropriate vetting of staff. When applicants accept a job offer, Ashurst, alongside a specialist provider, will undertake professional verification and background checks. These checks are only undertaken with consent, and in accordance with our legal and regulatory obligations.
Ashurst Reach:
Ashurst Reach is the firm’s dedicated flexible legal resourcing platform which provides the firm’s clients and Practice Groups within the firm with access to a high quality talent pool of lawyers and paralegals. We understand that our clients need access to highly qualified lawyers and paralegals, often at short notice and/or for short periods, whether that be to meet internal client demands, backfill leave, provide cover during recruitment or to assist with specialised projects. We deliver a seamless, fast and trusted solution to these issues.
Ashurst Reach is an integral part of the firm’s NewLaw division, Ashurst Advance. Our focus is solving our clients’ business problems through optimal efficiency, cost effectiveness and digitally innovative legal service delivery.
The Opportunity:

This is a rare opportunity to join Ashurst’s Pro Bono & Social Impact team and be seconded in a paid role to one of the firm’s pro-bono clients (a refugee organisation) in Brisbane for a period of 12 months. More details follow.

• While on secondment, this role will be supported by the Ashurst Pro Bono and Social Impact team
• This will be a 12 month fixed term contract
• The ideal level is 1-2 years PQE
• Full time candidates only
• Brisbane based candidates only
• You must be able to work from client’s office
• Applicants with lived experience or experience working with refugees and asylum seekers welcome to apply
• Note: this is a paid role
• Applications close COB, Tuesday 2 July 2024

Skills and experience required:

• An enthusiastic professional who enjoys providing high quality legal services to migrants,refugees and asylum seekers
• Ability to effectively communicate with people who are Culturally andLinguistically Diverse and who experience several layers of disadvantage
• Ability to providing high-quality discrete legal assistance and representation services, both bytelephone and face-to-face in the area of immigration and refugee law, including to clients withcomplex legal needs
• Ability to providing referrals to other service providers, where appropriate
• Experience in managing a significant caseload of client matters, ensuring service standards and deadlinesare met
• Ability to identify and appropriately respond to the cultural needs and/or vulnerabilities ofthe client’s clients
• Ability to comply with the rules and requirements of relevant legal profession legislation and theCommunity Legal Centre’s Risk Management Guide
• Ability to manage legal data and documentation, including:
• Maintaining files effectively in accordance with the client’s file management policies and RiskManagement Guide
• Ensuring that all required legal service data is accurately and timely recorded in the client’spractice management tool, CLASS
• Adhering to the client’s digital processes to ensure supervision of legal services is completed
• Assessing client’s vulnerabilities and legal case merits to determine eligibility forrepresentation services
• Ability to maintain up to date file lists and record of legal deadlines in the client’s systems
• Actively participating in regular file reviews and caseworkers’ team meetingsand attending external supervision and/or debriefings
• Ability to supervise own legal services with random supervisions provided
• Ability to contribute to the preparation and delivery of community legal education sessions andmaterials, as required.
• Ability to participate in the preparation of law reform submissions and responses to law reformproposals.
• Ability to contribute to the day-to-day supervision of paralegals and volunteers
• Ability to supervise volunteer advisors at evening advice sessions and/or at legal clinics
• Ability to exercise self-care and identify strategies to cope in situations of stress and pressure, aswell as proactively managing own workload
• You should have a current practising certificate or the ability to get one quickly
• Applicants must have the right to live and work in Australia

• While on secondment, this role will be supported by the Ashurst Pro Bono and Social Impact team
• This will be a 12 month fixed term contract
• The ideal level is 1-2 years PQE
• Full time candidates only
• Brisbane based candidates only
• You must be able to work from client’s office
• Applicants with lived experience or experience working with refugees and asylum seekers welcome to apply
• Note: this is a paid role
• Applications close COB, Tuesday 2 July 202