Description

Please Note: If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly to Kennedys or reach out to Kennedys' recruitment contact listed on our advert for a confidential conversation. We are not currently accepting applications from agencies for this position.

Do you enjoy a broad practice?

Are you looking for a role that offers genuine variety, complex disputes and the ability to shape your own career, rather than being confined to one specialty area?

We're seeking a Senior Associate or Special Counsel to join our Perth office, working closely with Partners Alen Sinanovic and Cindy Tucker.

This is a rare chance to join a growing team with the flexibility to shape your own practice, build your profile and pursue the work that interests you most, supported by experienced colleagues and a global platform.

What you'll do

You'll step into a well-established practice with a strong pipeline of work, including:

• Professional indemnity and financial lines claims
• Regulatory investigations and compliance issues
• Civil litigation and dispute resolution
• Healthcare, medical negligence and injury liability claims
• Employment liability matters, workplace complaints and investigations
• Advice and disputes involving insurers, government bodies, healthcare providers, local government and commercial organisations

What we're looking for

We're interested in speaking with lawyers who have experience in one or more of the following:

• Healthcare, medical negligence or injury liability
• Financial lines or insurance disputes
• Employment liability or workplace investigations
• Regulatory and compliance work

Most importantly, we're looking for ambitious lawyers who enjoy variety and want the flexibility to shape their career around their interests and strengths.

Why Kennedys?

Our Perth team combines the accessibility and autonomy of a local office with the reach, resources and opportunities of a global law firm.

You'll benefit from:

• A genuinely diverse practice
• Direct access to partners and clients
• High levels of autonomy and responsibility
• National and international work
• Structured learning and development
• Clear career progression opportunities
• A supportive, collaborative culture

If you're looking for a role where you can grow your profile, develop trusted client relationships and make your mark within a growing team, we'd love to hear from you.

*Where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.

About Kennedys

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 3,000 people in 45 offices across 18 countries around the world we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.

Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

What do we have to offer?

We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.

Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive, distinctive and ambitious. Our values are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.

The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles. A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.

We strive to celebrate diversity, empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority. We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work. Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.

Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.