Job Description
Broad mix of defendant files inside a global firm. Insurers and underwriters as clients. Strong salary. Adaptable work. Run your own matters.
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Global law firm
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$1b in revenue and growing
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Be paid well and have fun while doing it
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Most insurance files teach you one class of claim. This desk does not.
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You will act for insurers and underwriters on the defence side inside a global law firm with a serious Australian insurance practice.
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The book is mixed on purpose: public and product liability, personal injury, skilled indemnity, property and recoveries, coverage questions, and the litigated files that follow when a claim will not settle.
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You will not be parked on one panel product for three years. You will learn the file, the policy, the forum and the client.
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What you will do?
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Run a broad defendant caseload from first notification through resolution
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Advise on liability, quantum, strategy and, where required, policy response
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Draft advices, pleadings, correspondence and briefs that a claims manager can use
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Appear at conferences, mediations and interlocutory hearings
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Deal directly with insurer clients and, on the right files, the insured
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Work with seniors on the larger, multi-party or high-value matters
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Who this is for?
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An ambitious and driven defendant (or plaintiff) lawyer with 2-8 years PQE.
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What you get?
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A strong salary for this market
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Flexible, hybrid work as a normal way of running the practice
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A global platform: Australian files with the reach of an international insurance practice, including work connected to local and overseas underwriters
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A mixed diet of files so your advocacy, advisory and client skills all stay in use
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Training, supervision and a path that does not depend on staying on one partner's list forever
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The ordinary professional supports that make a litigation job liveable: leave, wellbeing measures, and a team that still talks to each other
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📌 Insurance Lawyer (Victoria)
🏢 Burgess Paluch Legal Recruitment
📍 Victoria