Job Description
Create the career pathway you want with LOD!
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LOD (Lawyers On Demand) is one of the largest and fastest growing global legal services businesses, and as a 'new law' pioneer, we continue to lead the market we created.
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We're a global business with offices around the world that focus on providing end-to-end solutions for our clients' legal needs, by connecting them with our team of exceptional legal professionals. We provide secondment opportunities, legal advisory services, and legal operations & tech solutions.
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Together, we find recent ways to supercharge the value that legal professionals and in-house legal teams deliver.
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With LOD, you get all the best bits of being a lawyer – interesting work with some of the world's most exciting organisations, plus the flexibility and freedom to live your life how you want.
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Who are we looking for?
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We are working on an exciting assignment within the hospitality and service industry for a lawyer with extensive franchising experience. You'll play a key role in supporting franchise partners to achieve strong commercial outcomes, enhancing operational excellence, and strengthening relationships across a growing portfolio. No assignment or day is ever the same when you're working with LOD. This is a great opportunity to diversify your experience and bolster your CV through a career with LOD. This is an initial 12 month secondment.
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To Join Us, You Will
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Have at least 3-6 years PQE ideally gained from top or mid-tier law firms or in-house (with strong legal training).
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Be experienced with franchise transaction.
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Hold a current Australian Practising Certificate.
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Be client centric, commercially minded, adaptable and able to hit the ground running.
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What sets us apart?
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We're an Employer of Choice: for the fifth year in a row, we've been recognised as an Employer of Choice by Australasian Lawyer. We're even prouder that we've received an employee NPS score across Australia of 81 which is recognised as "ground-breaking".
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CV-enhancing work with global brands: We provide our people with varied, challenging, career-enhancing work with world-class global brands, allowing them to take control of their career and diversify their experience across a range of industries.
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No limits: We've helped open doors, break glass ceilings, facilitate the transition from private practice to in-house, and develop career pathways to become a GC. Whatever direction you want to take your career, we can help you get there.
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You call the shots: We take work-life balance pretty seriously. You can work on-site with our clients or remotely, undertake full-time or part-time assignments, or assignments that are for set months of a year – it's your choice!
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You're never on your own: Throughout your LOD career, you'll become part of a community.



You'll be supported by your LOD colleagues and our HQ team, have access to mentoring programs and high-quality know-how, LOD social events, and receive regular training to assist in your ongoing growth and development.
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Our Ways Of Working help shape who we are and what we do: we deliver, we are creative, we are inclusive, we care & collaborate, and we are trusted.
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We're global: LOD can provide you with local, interstate and international working opportunities. In late ****, LOD joined forces with Consilio, the global leader in legal consulting and enterprise legal services. Together, LOD & Consilio have a team of approximately 10,000 lawyers, legal engineers, legal operations consultants, paralegals, and risk & compliance professionals spanning North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and the Middle East.
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LOD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion is a core part of our Ways of Working, and we celebrate and embrace it. We know the individual differences of our people make us collectively better and we encourage all applicants; including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, career breaks, gender diverse, LGBTQIA, and culturally diverse communities to join us so we can do great things together.
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What's next?
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Are you ready to spark a positive change to your career and your personal life? Click Apply and a member of our People & Development team will be touch to discuss how we can help you do just that.
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📌 Legal Counsel - Franchising (Victoria)
🏢 Lawyers On Demand
📍 Victoria