At SR Legal, you can be senior without becoming a manager. You stay close to sophisticated work, own your client relationships directly, exercise real judgement, and build a recognised specialisation of your own, without picking up a team of juniors along the way.

The Role

This is a senior practitioner role, not a supervisory one. You will not be managing a team of junior lawyers. Instead, you will:

- Run complex commercial property matters independently, from first instruction to completion, with minimal need for sign-off on routine judgement calls
- Own your own matters and client relationships directly, across work including negotiated leasing terms outside standard positions, acquisitions and disposals, development agreements, options, assignments and disputes
- Build client relationships strong enough that clients call you first, the way they would call an internal legal team
- Feed lessons from real deals back into SR Legal's templates and precedents
- Build a recognised specialisation of your own within commercial property over time The Candidate

We are looking for a lawyer with 5+ years post-admission experience in commercial property, who brings sound commercial judgement, not just technical competence. You will:
- Hold, or be entitled to hold, a current Victorian practising certificate
- Have a demonstrated track record running complex commercial property matters independently
- Identify the commercial issue behind a legal question, not just the technical point, and know when to pause and check something rather than guess
- Have strong people skills,



including the ability to manage clients confidently when a deal is under pressure or the stakes are high
- Have the confidence to tell clients what they need to hear, not just what they want to hear
- Be comfortable working with a high degree of autonomy and taking ownership of your matters

Why SR Legal

SR Legal is the outsourced in-house legal counsel for developers running multiple projects, and for landlords, tenants and commercial property owners operating at scale or with a genuine vision to grow to that level. We are known for the depth of our client relationships and the quality of our commercial judgement, not the size of our client list. We have built a calm, sustainable practice where senior specialist lawyers do their best work.

We have an established reputation in fuel, childcare and other regulated, operational-use commercial and retail leasing. There is genuine scope to build a specialisation of your own alongside this, working closely with the Principal, an Accredited Specialist in Property Law. You do not need existing depth in a niche to apply.

Progression at SR Legal comes through greater client ownership, specialist depth and contribution to the practice, not through taking on a larger team.

What We Offer

- A flexible, remote-first working arrangement
- Direct ownership of your own matters, clients and relationships from day one
- A genuine path to building a recognised specialisation, backed by an established reputation in the sector
- Market-competitive salary, commensurate with experience
- A calm, sustainable practice culture, not a high-volume file mill

📌 Senior Commercial Property Lawyer (Melbourne)
🏢 S R Legal Group
📍 Melbourne