Role: Paralegal

Location: Toorak, Melbourne

Work arrangement: Office-based, full-time

Compensation: AUD 80,000-90,000 + Superannuation

This is a Toorak-based legal practice with a well-established client base and work across loan and mortgage origination, insolvency, debt recovery, litigation, and conveyancing. The focus is on commercially pragmatic, results-driven outcomes.

What You'll Do

- You'll manage a high volume of matters from opening through to completion, keeping files moving and matter reporting up to date.
- You'll draft routine correspondence, legal documents, and agreements with care and accuracy.
- You'll handle court filings across Australian jurisdictions and stay on top of deadline-driven lodgements.
- You'll manage PEXA transactions and the related administration that supports each matter.
- You'll keep day-to-day office and practice administration running smoothly, including trust, accounts, and diary-related tasks.
- You'll support practitioners with precedents, follow-up, and time-critical work that helps the practice stay organised and responsive.

Who We're Looking For

You should be someone who is comfortable owning the day-to-day flow of legal matters in a busy office-based practice.

Must-Haves:

- Around 3–5 years' experience as a paralegal or similar legal support operator, with the confidence to run core workflow independently.
- Hands-on experience progressing files from inception to completion in a busy legal practice or similar environment.
- Robust routine drafting capability across legal correspondence, documents, and agreements.




- Solid experience with court or registry filing processes, accurate record-keeping, and keeping practice administration current across a high file load.
- Strong Microsoft 365 skills.

Nice-To-Haves:

- Experience with LEAP.
- Experience with PEXA.
- Exposure to practice areas such as loan and mortgage origination, insolvency, debt recovery, litigation, or conveyancing.
- Experience supporting trust or accounts administration within a legal practice.

About The Company

Melbourne-based legal practice with a well-established and consistent client base, focused on delivering commercially pragmatic and results-driven outcomes. The firm’s core areas of expertise include loan and mortgage origination, insolvency, debt recovery, litigation, and conveyancing.

How To Apply

Ploomo is supporting this process as the exclusive talent partner and is running a structured selection process on behalf of the company.

After applying, you will receive an email from Ploomo with further instructions, including a short online assessment designed to help us understand your thinking style and mindset. It takes around 15–20 minutes to complete. There are no right or wrong answers — the focus is on alignment.

To be considered for shortlisting, you will need to complete the assessment.

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If you have any issues receiving the email or completing the assessment, please contact [email protected].

📌 Paralegal (Melbourne)
🏢 Ploomo
📍 Melbourne