Special Counsel/Partner - Family Law

Job Description

What’s in it for you?

• Take ownership of a high value, complex family law caseload with genuine autonomy.
• Step into a leadership role with a clear path to equity partnership.
• Enjoy brand new, luxury North Sydney offices and full support from a specialist, accredited real estate team.

About your new employer:

• Award-winning, highly regarded family law and property firm.
• Significant growth trajectory, poised to invest further in its people and its future.
• Deep bench of specialist, Law Society Accredited real estate lawyers  to support your family law practice.
• Brand new, luxury North Sydney offices, invested in digitally driven practice and efficient systems.
• Genuinely flexible, family-friendly culture where work/life balance is a lived reality, not just a policy.

About the role:

• Lead a caseload of complex, high value family law matters, including parenting, property and financial disputes.
• Manage matters with full autonomy from initial advice through to resolution, backed by the firm’s specialist accredited real estate team on all property-related aspects.
• Appear and advocate in mediations and court, and oversee the drafting of court documents, correspondence, affidavits and settlement agreements.
• Advise high net worth and complex clients on sensitive family issues, delivering practical, commercially minded outcomes.
• Play a genuine leadership role – mentoring junior lawyers, contributing to business development and helping shape the continued growth of the practice, with a clear path to partnership.

The ideal candidate:

• Senior family lawyer at Special Counsel or Partner level, with a strong track record leading complex, high value matters.
• Deep experience across parenting, property and financial matters, including high net worth and complex property pools.
• A proven ability to run a caseload with complete autonomy, and ideally, an existing referral network or client following.
• Excellent drafting, advocacy and client management skills, with genuine gravitas in front of clients and the court.
• Empathetic, commercially minded and able to manage sensitive matters with professionalism and discretion.
• A natural leader and mentor, genuinely interested in helping build and grow the practice, with ambitions towards equity partnership.

If this role does not align to your experience and/or career goals, please contact us to discuss other suitable opportunities.

Why work with us?

• We have access to 50% more roles than are publicly available.
• You will receive free CV and content advice as well as interview preparation assistance specific to the role.
• We are intimately aware of market trends including team/firmwide inside information and what salary you can achieve in the current market.
• Naiman Clarke are celebrating 25 years of excellence in the legal recruitment industry this year.  Our team of experienced, legally trained, consultants have over 40 years of combined experience working exclusively in the legal recruitment sector. 

Contact Elvira today!

Please quote reference number EN/ 58510

• Call or text: 0480 042 586
• Email:  enaiman@naimanclarke.com.au
• LinkedIn message: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elvira-naiman/