Head of Corporate | Practice Leadership Role | Melbourne Commercial Firm

Our client is a national commercial law firm that has done away with timesheets, individual budgets and the traditional partnership hierarchy. They are looking for a Head of Corporate to build, lead and grow their corporate practice, originate new work and help shape how a modern legal business operates. This is a permanent, full time, senior role based in Melbourne CBD, with flexibility for Sydney and Brisbane candidates. It will suit a partner, principal or senior corporate lawyer ready for broader leadership responsibility.

Why you'll love it here

- Salary in the range of $250K to $350K ex super
- No timesheets, no individual budgets and no traditional partnership hierarchy
- Genuine autonomy and direct access to the CEO and executive team
- The chance to influence not only the corporate practice but how a modern legal business is run
- A team that succeeds together rather than chasing individual financial targets
- Technology and AI treated as part of how legal services are delivered, not an afterthought
- Permanent, full-time

Our client is a national commercial law firm that has done away with timesheets, individual budgets and the traditional partnership hierarchy. They are looking for a Head of Corporate to build, lead and grow their corporate practice, originate new work and help shape how a modern legal business operates. This is a permanent, full-time, senior role based in Melbourne CBD, with flexibility for Sydney and Brisbane candidates. It will suit a partner, principal or senior corporate lawyer ready for broader leadership responsibility.

Why you'll love it here

- Salary in the range of $250K to $350K ex super
- No timesheets, no individual budgets and no traditional partnership hierarchy
- Genuine autonomy and direct access to the CEO and executive team




- The chance to influence not only the corporate practice but how a modern legal business is run
- A team that succeeds together rather than chasing individual financial targets
- Technology and AI treated as part of how legal services are delivered, not an afterthought
- Permanent, full-time

About the role

A practice-leadership role with a real commercial brief: grow corporate profitably, win the work and lead the team that delivers it.

- Build a profitable, sustainable corporate practice and set its direction
- Act for clients on corporate and transactional matters and keep the standard of that work high
- Strengthen your existing relationships with clients, referrers and strategic partners, and add new ones
- Originate new clients and matters to build a healthy pipeline of work
- Lead, coach and develop the corporate team and oversee the work it produces
- Champion smarter ways of working, including the use of AI and technology in delivering legal services
- Have a say in where the wider business is headed and how it positions itself in the market

What you'll bring

- Significant corporate law and transactional experience and a current Australian practising certificate
- A proven record of winning work and building client relationships
- A network and referral base you are keen to activate and grow
- Experience leading and developing lawyers
- Strong commercial judgment and an ownership mindset
- Curiosity about AI, technology and how legal services will evolve
- A collaborative, team-first approach

Additional information

- $250K-$350K ex super with no timesheets and no individual budgets
- Permanent, full-time senior role in Melbourne CBD, hybrid working
- Build a corporate practice with direct access to the CEO and executive team

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📌 Head of Corporate | Practice Leadership Role | Melbourne Commercial Firm
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