Legal Administrative Assistant (Contract)

Piper Alderman is seeking a Legal Administrative Assistant for a 12-month contract in Sydney, NSW. The role involves supporting the Real Estate team with tasks like email management, client liaison, document preparation, and billing. Ideal candidates have legal experience, strong time management, communication skills, and a collaborative spirit. The firm promotes a supportive culture with various employee benefits, including wellbeing initiatives and professional development opportunities.
The Role

Are you looking for a challenging, fast-paced legal administrative role in a collegiate and supportive environment? Are you a highly organised individual who gains satisfaction in successfully supporting a busy team and in turn the clients they service?

We are looking for a professional and enthusiastic Legal Administrative Assistant to support our busy, high-performing Real Estate team in Sydney on a 12-month FTC. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to add an enormous amount of value to the day-to-day efficient running of the practice by immersing yourself in the team and will gain satisfaction from seeing your hard work make a difference.

With no two days the same, the tasks you will be responsible for are:
• Email and diary management
• Liaising with clients
• Assisting the team with bids and proposals
• Matter management to keep the team on top of their deadlines
• Attending to time entries, expense reconciliation, processing third party invoices and reporting
• Preparation of documents including letters, contracts and general correspondence
• General administrative duties such as document management and travel bookings
• Assisting with high volume, and at times, complex billing and matter opening

About you

To succeed in this role, you will ideally have:
• Experience in a law firm environment;
• Exceptional time management skills and the ability to manage priorities;
• Demonstrated ability to work with legal staff and clients;
• Strong initiative and problem solving ability;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and a commitment to excellence in customer service;
• A team player who loves to bring their personality to the office!

About Us

Piper Alderman is a premier commercial law firm with offices in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Melbourne. We work with clients across Australia and internationally to achieve practical commercial outcomes, innovation in service delivery and deep engagement across multiple industries.

Piper Alderman prides itself on being a collaborative law firm where high achieving ambitious team members can succeed in achieving their career goals whilst performing challenging and rewarding tasks.

At Piper Alderman we promote a culture of excellence, collaboration and teamwork. We recognise and support individuals and invest in their continued professional development.

Our perks

We have a variety of employee benefits aimed at supporting our people including, but not limited to:
• A variety of health and wellbeing initiatives including our Thrive@PiperAlderman Wellbeing Program.
• Learning and development opportunities to support career growth including generous study support options.
• An attractive Parental Leave policy offering up to 26 weeks paid leave.
• Automatic acceptance into the group Salary Continuance insurance plan
• Purchased annual leave options.
• A range of fun office and team events all year round so we make sure we are connecting socially as often as possible!
• A range of corporate discounts.
• Employee-led Diversity & Inclusion and Reconciliation Committees and the opportunity to participate in pro-bono work.

Apply today

Piper Alderman is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We aim to attract and retain the best people and provide an environment where those people can be their authentic selves. We value diversity of thought and experience and aim to ensure all our people are valued and respected. People from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Please submit an application by clicking the relevant link in this job advertisement. Please note, no applications will be accepted directly via email.

If you have questions or would like further information about this opportunity, please contact careers@piperalderman.com.au