Gain valuable experience in a law firm, build a solid legal foundation, and give your career a competitive edge. Our paralegals have emphasised the importance of having a job like this before graduation!
First and second-year students to apply! This role does not require completing special subjects at university.
What’s Involved?
Daily tasks include writing receipts, checking notices in e-newspapers, sending reminder emails, scanning documents and keeping the office tidy.
Comprehensive training and support: no prior experience is required; we'll teach you.
An entry-level role suited to people with little or no administration experience.
Availability & Commencement
Part-time and adaptable: choose 2 or 3 days a week, reducing to 1 during exams.
Start immediately or in a few weeks. We will work with you to determine the actual start date.
About Us
We are a Wills and Estates Law Firm. We help people navigate the legal complexities around estate planning and estate administration.
We hire people who love precision, improvement, and learning. And we’re serious about giving juniors the kind of experience that builds real careers.
We have been recognised by our peers in the Best Lawyers publication. Our firm has also been named in the Doyle's Guide as a Leading Law Firm for seven consecutive years.
Part of that recognition is due to our belief in custom solutions for our clients and ourselves; so much so that we wrote our own software which powers our practice.
While each of our directors has been in practice for 20-plus years, we still believe there’s plenty to learn and heaps of room to improve. We push ourselves so that we are always striving to be better than what we were yesterday.
For fun, we created this little behind-the-scenes clip on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SmLtgywUMJw
Oh! And we like movies, tv shows and board games.
Eligibility & Ideals
You need to have two things:
1. a typing speed of at least 58 words per minute;
2. an appropriate Australian work visa or Australian citizenship.
Ideally, you are or will be soon, a first or second year law student.
How to Apply
Step 1. Prepare three separate PDF documents, your:
(a) CV;
(b) cover letter; and
(c) academic transcript.
Please do not supply Word documents.
If you've completed at least three university subjects (in any degree), provide your university transcript; otherwise provide your high-school transcript (for Queensland students, your QCAA Senior Statement).
Unofficial transcripts are accepted for applications; official transcripts are required on hire.
Step 2. Attach all three PDFs to a single email and send it to ••••@yhclawyers.com.au. If this ad has been re-posted on another website, the email will not appear - visit our website for details instead.
Please follow these instructions carefully. Applications that do not meet the criteria set out in this advertisement will not be considered, and applications submitted through job-portal “Apply Now” buttons are not received as they never reach our recruitment system.
Mr Shen Chow will be reviewing applications.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Looking for More of a Challenge?
If you're eager to fast-track your legal experience, check out our Junior Paralegal Admin Assistant role.
It’s about real legal work - managing estate planning files, talking directly with clients, and building skills most law students don’t touch until their grad year.
Sound like you? Head to our website to learn more.
Closing Date
5:00PM 27 November 2026.
If we fulfill the position before the application closing date, we will remove this ad.