New Job Opening: Partner: Employment in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Job Description

Partner: Employment Law

What’s in it for you?

• Join a well-established team with genuine scope to grow your practice.


• Strong referral network and access to existing national and international clients.


• Competitive partner remuneration with WFH available.

About your new employer:

• Our client is an award-winning Sydney boutique firm known for advising prominent companies and executives.


• The firm has a strong pipeline of both advisory and litigious work.


• The firm has built a collaborative, ambitious and supportive culture that gives its lawyers meaningful responsibility, direct access to senior practitioners and genuine opportunities to accelerate their careers.

• Career progression and salary is directly corelated with merit and performance, not pre-determined bands or PQE.

• Flexible working is available, and part-time arrangements will be considered for the right candidates. 

About the role:

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Employment Law Partner to join and further develop an established practice.

You will advise and represent both plaintiff and defendant clients across a broad range of contentious and advisory employment matters, including:

• Employment disputes, termination and unfair dismissal claims


• General protections, discrimination and workplace investigations


• Executive employment and restraint matters


• Enterprise agreements, industrial relations and workforce restructuring


• Day-to-day strategic workplace relations advice


• Litigated employment matters across the relevant courts and tribunals

Alongside managing your own practice, you will play an active role in business development, client relationships and the ongoing growth of the employment team.

This is also a hands-on leadership role, with a strong focus on mentoring, developing and supporting junior lawyers as they progress their careers. 

The ideal candidate:

• Established Partner, Special Counsel or senior employment lawyer ready to move into a leadership role


• Strong experience across both advisory and contentious employment law matters


• Demonstrated experience running and litigating employment disputes


• Comfortable acting for both plaintiffs and defendants


• Commercial and proactive approach to business development and practice growth


• Genuine interest in mentoring and developing junior lawyers


• Strong client relationship skills and the ability to build trusted, long-term relationships


• Existing client following will be highly regarded

If this role does not align to your experience and/or career goals, please contact us to discuss other suitable opportunities.

Why work with us?

• We have access to 50% more roles than are publicly available


• You will receive free CV and content advice as well as interview preparation assistance specific to the role


• We are intimately aware of market trends including team/firmwide inside information and what salary you can achieve in the current market


• Naiman Clarke are celebrating 25 years of excellence in the legal recruitment industry this year.  Our team of experienced, legally trained, consultants have over 40 years of combined experience working exclusively in the legal recruitment sector

Contact Elvira today!

Please quote reference number EN/59816

• Call or text: 0480 042 586


• Email: enaiman@naimanclarke.com.au


• LinkedIn message: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elvira-naiman/


• #SCR-elvira-naiman

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