Employment & Safety Solicitor - 1-3 PAE - Melbourne
- Join a national practice focused on employment law and safety.
- Engage in business development and high-profile legal engagements.
- Be part of a supportive team with strong mentorship opportunities.
About Dentons
Dentons is the world’s largest law firm. We’re 20,000+ people globally across 80+ countries including USA; Europe; India and Asia. We are a global polycentric firm which is expanding rapidly in an increasingly globalised legal industry.
Dentons now consistently ranks as one of the five best regarded legal brands in the world according to the Acritas Global Elite Law Firm Brand Index.
About the Role
Dentons’ Employment & Safety practice is a full-service employment practice specialising in providing advice and dispute resolution on matters arising from all aspects of the employment lifecycle for large corporates (across multiple industries), and across sectors including healthcare, childcare, labour hire, tech, logistics, prisons, aged care and educational institutions.
You will be part of a national practice that is defined by an inclusive, supportive, and high performing team environment, led by Paul O’Halloran, who will mentor and support you. Our diverse team has a common passion to be the best employment law specialists in the industry in this dynamic area of law. We have exemplary client service skills and engage heavily in business development and marketing activities.
Join a collaborative and supportive team where your contributions are genuinely valued. This role offers strong opportunities to develop your professional profile through dedicated business development and media activities, including assisting the Partner with research and preparation for high-profile engagements across television, radio, webinars and national print publications.
About You
Are you a technically sharp, ambitious employment lawyer ready to make your mark? We are looking for litigators who combine deep employment law expertise with the drive to build their profile and grow a practice, someone who brings commercial instinct, strong client relationships, and a genuine appetite for business development. If this sounds like you, we would love to connect.
We cannot wait to connect with you to learn about you and share more information about the role, the firm, Dentons’ Benefits, our Learning and Development Programs and much more.
Why Dentons
Dentons Australia offers a wide range of incentives aimed at embracing your authenticity, providing purpose, and strengthening your ongoing development.
We offer:
- Equitable salary packaging, incentive pay and rewards
- Salary continuous insurance (for permanent employees or employees on a 6 month or more maximum term contract basis)
- Salary sacrificing and novated leases
- 5 days Bonus Leave per year after 12 months of service
- Additional leave options
- Equal family leave for all genders (including kinship groups)
- Floating public holidays for days of cultural significance
- Exclusive retailer discounts
- Offices designed for collaboration on Gadigal, Naarm, Yuggera, Kaurna and Whadjuk land
- Learning & Development opportunities
- Generous health and wellbeing programs
- Agile and flexible working for all
- Social and diversity networks providing year-round events
- Opportunities to undertake pro-bono legal work
Diversity, Equality & Inclusion
Embedded in our people is a passion to help others through the delivery of justice. It is through this that our commitment to inclusion, equity, and reconciliation has evolved. We are proud to say that by design, we have no single headquarters or dominant national culture, this means the unique perspectives, experiences, and identities of our people come together globally under one purpose to create an inclusive and accessible environment where anyone can thrive.
Please apply online with your CV, Cover Letter, and academic transcripts. If you have questions beforehand, please email our recruitment team at recruitment.au@dentons.com. Enquiries only please, applications will not be accepted by email.
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