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.

We're looking for an Associate to join our growing Healthcare team, working closely with Partners Cindy Tucker and Natalie Orola.

Acting for insurers, medical defence organisations, healthcare providers and medical practitioners, the team advises on a broad range of healthcare, medical negligence and health law matters.

What You'll Be Doing

You'll work across a diverse range of matters, including:

- Medical negligence and clinical liability claims
- Coronial investigations and inquests
- Regulatory and disciplinary proceedings, including AHPRA matters
- Coverage and indemnity advice
- Catastrophic injury and other complex personal injury claims
- Providing strategic advice to insurers, healthcare organisations and medical practitioners

This role offers direct client exposure, meaningful responsibility and the prospect to work on complex matters within a nationally recognised healthcare practice

About You

We're interested in hearing from lawyers who have:

- 1-2 years' post-admission experience in medical negligence, healthcare or health law
- Strong drafting, analytical and communication skills
- A commercial and client-focused approach
- The ability to work collaboratively within a team environment

Why Kennedys? Kennedys is a global law firm with a market-leading insurance and healthcare practice. As part of our Healthcare team, you'll have the opportunity to work on complex and high-profile matters while collaborating with colleagues across our international network. We are committed to investing in our people through structured learning and development programmes, mentoring and ongoing support. You'll be empowered to take ownership of your work, build strong client relationships and continue developing your technical expertise within a collaborative and high-performing environment.





With access to challenging work, international connections and clear career progression opportunities, Kennedys offers the platform to build a successful and rewarding long-term career.

Interested?

If you have healthcare or medical negligence experience and are looking to take the next step in your career, 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.

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