Job Title Reach Legal Consultant | Commercial lawyers | Brisbane Location Brisbane Description

The Opportunity

Join a leading organisation in a role that will strengthen your legal career.

- Duration: 3 months
- Arrangement: Full time (hybrid)
- Location: Brisbane

About You

You are an experienced employment lawyer with a minimum of 5 years' experience, bringing a strong track record from private practice or in-house roles within large organisations.

Your Experience and Expertise:

- Strong commercial law experience gained within a government legal team, in-house environment or private practice
- Experience providing commercial and contractual advice across a broad range of legal matters
- Demonstrated expertise in procurement, governance and contract management matters
- Experience advising on infrastructure, project delivery and operational legal issues
- Strong drafting, review and negotiation skills across contracts, deeds, licences, memoranda of understanding and other commercial agreements
- Ability to provide practical, solutions-focused legal advice that supports business and operational objectives
- Experience identifying, assessing and managing legal, commercial and governance risks
- Experience supporting major projects and providing legal input on priority or time-critical matters
- Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar legal and commercial subject matter and provide effective advice
- Experience managing external legal service providers and coordinating legal support arrangements
- Proven ability to manage a diverse portfolio of matters with competing priorities and deadlines
- Experience engaging directly with senior stakeholders and providing strategic legal guidance
- Excellent written communication skills, including preparing legal advice, briefing notes, executive correspondence and decision-making documents
- Broad legal experience across multiple practice areas rather than a narrow specialist focus
- Ability to work independently while maintaining a high standard of legal service delivery

Attributes:





- Commercially minded with strong business acumen
- Pragmatic and solutions-focused approach to legal issues
- Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills
- Strong judgment and risk assessment capability
- Highly adaptable and able to quickly learn new subject matter
- Confident communicating with senior executives and decision-makers
- Robust negotiation and influencing skills
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Resilient and capable of performing under pressure
- Strong organisational and time management skills
- Ability to balance legal risk with practical and operational outcomes
- Client-focused with a commitment to delivering timely and effective advice

Requirements:

- Current Australian practising certificate
- Right to live and work in Australia

About Reach

Reach is the flexible legal resourcing platform of Ashurst Perkins Coie, a global law firm with more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices. Sitting within Advance, the firm's NewLaw division, we place lawyers and professionals where they're needed most — whether our clients need to meet a surge in demand, cover leave, bridge a recruitment gap, or bring in specialist expertise.

Why join Reach?

Reach gives you the flexibility to build a career that fits your life — not the other way around. We work with talented consultants across a broad range of specialties, matching the right people with the right opportunities.

Here's what you can expect as a Reach consultant:

- Flexibility and choice — control over how, when, and where you work, on terms that suit your life.
- A genuine partnership — a dedicated Reach team who will get to know you and actively champion your career goals.
- The backing of a global firm — the resources, reputation, and culture of Ashurst Perkins Coie, including access to clients doing market-leading work and a refreshingly open and inclusive community.

Interested?

Ready to find out more? Apply now or get in touch with Fiona Craig, our Senior Talent Manager, at [email protected] — we'd love to hear from you.

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📌 Reach Legal Consultant | Commercial lawyers | Brisbane
🏢 Ashurst
📍 Brisbane