Description of Role

We are an award-winning national law firm that specialises in property, development, commercial law, and strata and community titles. Our Brisbane practice is looking for an experienced paralegal to join our team.

You will be supporting a small and collaborative team of lawyers and will work with industry-leading property developers, property investors and strata stakeholders.

The role is full time and based in our brand new Brisbane office at 120 Edward Street.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will support our team who provide property-related advisory work and property litigation, across a range of issues such as development, by-laws, debt collection, off the plan conveyancing and general property advisory work. The work will be wide-ranging and includes:

Assisting with development work, including drafting contracts for sale, by-laws and titling documents

Preparing by-law consolidations

Organising and keeping up to date document precedents

Assisting in preparing draft advices

Working with the disputes team on litigation matters, including preparing court documents, putting together briefs and exhibits

Assisting with our developer off the plan conveyancing practice (conveyancing experience is plus but not essential)

Conducting online searches such as title and company searches

Assisting with preparing fee proposals;

Assisting with research;

Assisting the lawyers you support and our office manager with end of month billing (if needed);

Attending local courts to file documents; and

Other general administrative duties as directed by the legal staff.

There is scope to grow in this role, including as a lawyer. The nature of our work, and the tasks that you can help with, provide a unique opportunity to truly make this position your own.

Skills & Experience

To be successful in this role, you will have:

Experience working in a law firm (required)

Experience working on property / real estate related matters

Experience managing conveyancing matters (preferred)

An organised and meticulous approach to your work

Excellent written communication skills

Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills required for maintaining a positive team environment

Why work with us?

Bugden Allen is a national law firm with offices in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and the Sunshine Coast. You will be joining a company with over 50 staff (and growing) which has a fun, inclusive and supportive culture. Our core values are With Teamwork, we care. With Excellence, we inspire. With Innovation, we grow. and With Integrity, we lead.

You will be lucky enough to work under the guidance and support of undoubtedly some of Australia’s leading experts in property development and strata title law. Our clients include leading property developers, banks, insurance companies, Government departments, strata companies, strata managers and listed and private companies.

Our group includes a PropTech company that has built three technology systems including our LevyCollect debtor management system that we use to streamline to process of collecting outstanding strata levies.

For more information on BAGL including our team, please visit www.bagl.com.au or follow us on LinkedIn.

How to apply?

We prefer to work directly with candidates, so if you are interested in this role, please respond via the Careers option on our web site or contact us via email at [email protected].

Agency submissions

Agencies - please note that we are not currently accepting applications from agencies for this role unless you have been approached by us.