The opportunity Are you ready to make your mark as part of the Environment and Planning Practice in our Melbourne office?
As an Associate, you will apply good judgment and excellent analytical skills to your work. Highly organised and self-motivated, you'll be a team player with a strong professional presence and client focus. With experience in advising on environmental, planning, native title, heritage, and climate change law, you will be joining a market leading team with fantastic career progression opportunities. You will also have opportunities to work on high-profile matters that involve providing strategic advice on a diverse range of environmental and sustainability-related matters, and on renewable energy, power, mining, and infrastructure projects.
At White & Case, we'll support you, give you responsibility and welcome you as an integral member of our diverse, international team from day one. We foster a collegial working environment where partners are friendly and accessible, and colleagues always supportive and open to questions.
Key responsibilities Working closely with partners and team members on a diverse range of client mandates, often in new or emerging fields such as offshore wind, pumped hydro and hydrogen projects.Drafting and reviewing legal documentation and advice.Conducting legal and technical research.Working directly with clients and their technical advisers and consultants.Drafting of basic filings addressed to courts and authorities, and support and project management in environmental panel and inquiry hearings.Due diligence – analysis of environmental reports, approvals, and planning systems, and drafting commercially-focused reports.Drafting legal memoranda on broad range of topics arising under environmental and planning law.Providing direct assistance to senior lawyers on matters arising during day-to-day provision of legal services to leading international and domestic corporate clients.Joining educational seminar and practice groups.The skills and attributes we are looking for Admitted to practice in Australia with a PQE of 1-3 years.A desire to work collaboratively as part of a high-performing team to deliver innovative solutions and ensure the best result for the client.Possesses good commercial and business acumen.Strong time management skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks.Excellent communication, drafting and negotiation skills and attention to detail.Willingness to be proactive, resourceful, and taking the initiative.Strong academic record and intellectual curiosity, creative thinker.What We Offer At White & Case, you can make a real difference, work on cutting-edge deals that make the headlines and help shape the world we live in. We live by our values—to be pioneering, united and human—and we believe that you'll experience them from your first day. We will give you the support and training that will help you achieve your potential as a global lawyer.
We believe that consistent high performance merits reward and support. Our compensation package reflects your calibre as a lawyer and our benefits are designed to support your changing needs and priorities across different life stages.
We offer high-quality, internationally oriented work on the most challenging matters and an opportunity to work as part of a truly global organisation.
About White & Case We are a global law firm with longstanding offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, our cross-border integration, and our depth of local, US and English-qualified lawyers help our clients work with confidence in any one market or across many.
Since our arrival in Australia in 2016, our Australian practice has grown to 34 partners and 100+ lawyers across Sydney and Melbourne. Our teams work with clients in every state of Australia, across the Asia-Pacific region and around the globe on all aspects of the energy, infrastructure, power (including renewable energy) mining & metals sectors, and on high-profile public market and private equity M&A transactions.
How to apply Interested? Please apply by submitting your CV for further consideration.
We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and encourage applications from all ages, cultural backgrounds, First Nations communities, genders, sexual orientations, as well as people who have family or carer responsibilities. We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with a disability, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.
Note to recruitment agencies: Our internal Recruitment team are responsible for all end-to-end lateral recruitment processes. All agencies must sign White & Case terms of business, which are office specific. Candidates submitted by an agency without terms of business agreed with the appropriate office, and/or outside of our online application tracking system, will not be considered a formal introduction. Any applications and CVs sent directly to White & Case Partners and employees will not be accepted as formal introductions. If you have any questions, please contact the APAC Recruitment team.
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