Junior Lawyer/Executive Support/Personal Assistant | Sydney

Junior Lawyer/Executive Support/Personal Assistant | Sydney

Anderson Miller

Surry Hills, Sydney NSW

Legal & Compliance (Legal / EA & PA)

Anderson Miller is sourcing a motivated, hungry-to-learn Junior Lawyer / Executive & Personal Assistant (Assistant) on behalf of a private high-net-worth individual based in Sydney.

This is a highly discreet role, requiring exceptional professionalism, confidentiality, polish, genuine enthusiasm for learning, and prior experience supporting a high-net-worth individual or family. The successful candidate will provide legal and administrative support — including executive and personal assistant duties, and helping the principal read, digest and respond to a high volume of legal correspondence, ensuring contracts, correspondence and compliance matters are considered and handled to a consistently high standard of accuracy, discretion and care.

The Assistant provides day-to-day legal and administrative support to the principal on contracts, compliance and governance matters that underpin their personal and business affairs. A significant and immediate part of the role is supporting the principal's legal correspondence — reading and digesting incoming legal correspondence, helping to prepare and coordinate responses, and keeping them on top of a high volume of correspondence day to day. This is a hands-on, learning-focused position with genuine exposure to commercial, employment and regulatory work; as the principal's affairs evolve, so will the scope of the role. While the legal work is an essential ingredient, this is a mixed role — Executive Assistant and Personal Assistant as much as Junior Lawyer — and the right candidate will be just as comfortable with diary, travel and personal support as with legal tasks.

•    Contract administration — assisting with the drafting, formatting, filing and tracking of employment contracts, supplier agreements and other personal and business documentation.

•    Compliance support — helping maintain records and documentation relevant to regulatory and governance obligations, including reporting and financial submissions.

•    Correspondence and filing — managing legal correspondence, including reading, digesting and helping to prepare the principal's responses to their current legal correspondence, maintaining organised and up-to-date filing systems (physical and digital), and ensuring version control on key documents.

•    Meeting support — preparing agendas and papers, taking minutes and tracking action items for legal and governance-related meetings.

•    Liaison — acting as a point of contact between the legal function, external counsel and other advisers, ensuring information flows smoothly and deadlines are met.

•    Research support — assisting with basic legal research and summarising findings for the principal.

•    General administrative support — providing broader administrative assistance, including executive and personal assistant duties (diary, correspondence triage, travel and other personal support), to the principal as required.

This role suits someone early in their legal career who is eager to learn in a discreet, high-touch environment. You'll thrive here if you are:

•    A law graduate, paralegal, or current law student (or equivalent), with a genuine interest in litigation, commercial and employment law.

•    Highly organised and detail-oriented, with strong written communication skills, and genuinely hungry to learn and grow across both the legal and broader EA/PA sides of the role.

•    Discreet and trustworthy, comfortable handling sensitive and confidential information, with prior experience supporting a high-net-worth individual or family viewed favourably.

•    Adaptable and calm under pressure — the environment is fast-moving and priorities shift.

•    Live within close proximity to Surry Hills, Sydney.

Prior experience in a legal or administrative support role is an advantage but not essential — what matters most is attention to detail, reliability, discretion and a willingness and hunger to learn.

The scope of this role will evolve in line with the needs of the principal. The Junior Lawyer may be required to perform other duties, spanning both legal and executive/personal assistant support, as reasonably required.

If you're ready to start your legal career supporting a private principal in a discreet, high-performing environment, apply now through Seek with your CV. For a confidential discussion, contact Anderson Miller.