The Legal Counsel provides practical legal support on legal, regulatory and commercial matters. The role independently reviews, advises on and negotiates contracts on standard terms and third-party terms in line with playbooks, with escalation of complex, novel or high-risk issues to Senior Legal Counsel or the Head of Legal.

Whatyou’llbe doing day-to-day

- Provide timely advice on straightforward legal and regulatory issues, applying playbooks, precedent positions and risk guidance
- Review, advise on and negotiate customer, supplier and operational contracts on standard and third-party terms independently within agreed boundaries.
- Identify non-standard or higher-risk positions and escalation with clear options, recommendations and impact assessment
- Partner with sales, commercial, operational, finance and delivery teams to support transactions and business objectives
- Create or update guidance notes, clause positions,



checklists and FAQs for recurring legal issues
- Manage allocated matters from intake to completion, including status updates, document control and closing actions.

Whatyou’llbring to this role

- Qualified lawyer with 2-5 years PQE, preferably including in-house or commercial contracting experience
- Ability to work independently but know when to escalates
- Strong drafting, negotiation and stakeholder management skills
- Strong commercial judgement and practical risk-based advice
- Strong communication skills including across a diverse stakeholder group
- Organised approach to matter management and competing priorities
- Comfort with legal workflow, CRM and document management systems
- Ability to adapt to new and complex areas of law and regulation
- Ability to learn quickly.

📌 Legal Counsel (Melbourne)
🏢 VOCUS
📍 Melbourne