Paralegal or Senior Paralegal - Personal Injury

Want to work in a place that supports you to achieve and grow? Love to be helping clients and supporting teams? Join us and be the professional and the person you want to be.  
 
The Opportunity  
 
At Shine, we right wrong for our clients, and as a permanent Paralegal or Senior Paralegal in our Wollongong personal injury team, that starts with you. You'll work closely with and support our legal team to make a meaningful, long lasting impact for our clients.

While experience in personal injury law is preferred, it's not essential for success in this role. We're open to applications from experienced legal professionals with exposure to litigation and a solid understanding of evidence, legal processes and file management. You'll bring strong organisational skills, professionalism and empathy, along with a genuine passion for helping vulnerable individuals achieve justice.

Whilst this is a full-time role, we're open to considering candidates seeking four days per week. You'll have the opportunity to discuss your preferred working days throughout the recruitment process.

With empathy, adaptability and initiative, you'll support our clients by: 

• Working with our solicitors to successfully support them with day-to-day operations of files and client management.  
• Preparing matters for conference and hearing, including preparation of court and legal documents and general correspondence.  
• Using your high attention to detail to draft briefs and documents, such as claims forms and schedule of damages.  
• Efficiently coordinating medico-legal appointments, compulsory conferences and mediations.  
• Cultivating strong relationships with our clients, Shine employees, Counsel and other external stakeholders.  
• Supporting our legal team with optimising the use of internal systems to process information.  

What you’ll bring  

• Demonstrated experience supporting legal teams within a litigation environment.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
• Experience using legal software and electronic file management systems.
• A keen eye for detail and strong document drafting skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• An understanding of the importance of your role as a key point of contact supporting our clients. 

Shine Lawyers: A place for you. It means more here.  
 
At Shine, purpose really matters.  

• It’s our clients, who summon the courage to stand up to injustice.  
• It’s the communities we are part of and support every day.  
• It’s our team, who champion what’s right and make this place what it is.  

We’re an ASX-listed organisation, and we've been standing up for the rights of everyday Australians for more than 50 years. We’ve achieved a lot but you’ll find no airs and graces here. We’re humble yet relentless. We don’t pretend to be anything other than ourselves. And together, we’ve created a place for you to thrive.  
 
Here are some of the things we hope you’ll love about working with us:  

• Connect and be you: Get the benefits you need, and work with truly authentic people. And you can enjoy the security of a large, well-established firm that treats you as a person, not a number.
• Challenge and be challenged: We’re not here for “easy”. We want you to take your place at Shine and make a real impact. Question and challenge - that’s how we grow. 
• Achieve and grow: Start your Shine journey with our in-house learning programs, where you’ll find immediate connection and be set up for success. You will be provided real opportunities to step up and grow - within your role and beyond. 

Visit https://www.shine.com.au/careers/life-shine to find out more and read the stories of our incredible people. 
    
Excited to join us and stand up to injustice? Join us and build a career that means so much more.  
 
Apply now and make Shine Justice a place for you.  
 
As part of The Circle Back Initiative, we want you to feel supported through our recruitment process, which means that you will hear back from our friendly team – no matter the outcome.  
 
We are committed to making Shine Lawyers a place for you by encouraging and supporting our people to bring their authentic selves to the workplace, and as a result, we know you’ll put your best self forward while righting wrong for our clients. We’re passionate about maintaining a diverse and inclusive environment here at Shine that celebrates all of our differences with age, disability, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, to name a few, and we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates. You bring you.Apply Now