Jobs at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Provide proactive administrative support to lawyers across multiple practice groups. Responsibilities include matter management, time recording, billing assistance, business development support, event coordination, expenses, travel and meetings, mail, printing, filing, archiving, and document support. The role is full-time and fully office-based in Melbourne, requiring strong organization, communication, attention to detail, and Microsoft Office skills.

Supports the Asia Business Development Team in Singapore through credentials database management, lawyer profile updates, pitch preparation, social media initiatives, market research, client events, event logistics, and email distribution list maintenance. The intern will work full time for 4–6 months, manage competing deadlines, maintain confidentiality, work autonomously, and communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.

Junior Associate supporting the Southeast Asia Corporate practice in Bangkok. The role involves contributing to M&A, joint ventures, foreign direct investment, compliance, governance, restructuring, privacy, employment, and competition matters, including sophisticated cross-border transactions. Candidates should have Thai law qualification, strong legal research and organizational skills, Thai and English fluency, commercial awareness, analytical ability, and an interest in corporate law.

Advise Thai and international clients on M&A, joint ventures, private equity, corporate restructurings, governance, compliance, and cross-border transactions. Draft and negotiate transaction documents, manage due diligence, support client development, and work with partners, investors, and senior stakeholders. The role also includes mentoring junior associates and contributing to client relationship management in an international corporate practice.

Four-week unpaid-in-principle internship in Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's Tokyo office. Interns rotate through Corporate and Dispute Resolution practice groups, supporting partners, associates, lawyers, and business services teams on client work, workshops, and presentations. The role provides exposure to cross-border transactions, disputes, arbitration, litigation, projects, energy, and infrastructure matters. Applicants must be current students or recent graduates, fluent in English, highly proficient in Japanese, authorized to intern in Japan, and able to fund their own living expenses.

Lead business development for the Employment, Industrial Relations and Safety practice by managing pitches, proposals, tenders, credentials, thought leadership, podcasts, events, awards submissions, and market research. The role partners with lawyers, partners, marketing teams, and senior stakeholders to support client development, sector initiatives, and firm-wide growth across Australia.

Provide competition, regulatory, and trade legal advice; plan and delegate work; manage client relationships; draft and negotiate complex legal documents; support business development and firm initiatives; comply with professional and risk requirements; and manage legal project budgets and profitability.

Supports the global Data Privacy team with privacy governance, risk assessments, data protection impact assessments, compliance monitoring, audits, documentation, data subject rights requests, privacy education, incident response, and business advice. The role manages stakeholder relationships, supports supplier due diligence and agreements, monitors global privacy laws, and helps maintain the firm’s privacy management framework. It is governance, risk, and compliance-focused rather than technical.

Provides high-level administrative and practice support to a corporate legal team, including diary and workflow management, document production, client coordination, billing, matter administration, deadline monitoring, and travel arrangements. The role supports senior lawyers in a fast-paced environment, liaises with internal and external stakeholders, promotes efficient technology-enabled work practices, and mentors junior administrative staff.

Manage the collection, review, tracking, filing, and maintenance of client engagement letters and terms across active matters. Coordinate with legal, business development, finance, and administrative stakeholders; identify missing or non-compliant documents; compare terms with firm standards; maintain trackers and databases; archive superseded records; support audits; and respond to internal queries. The role requires strong organisation, communication, document management, and attention to detail.

Manages Belfast office operations and legal support services, including facilities, reception, hospitality, events, suppliers, budgets, office moves, security, workplace safety, business continuity, and records management. Leads and develops teams, oversees service contracts and landlord relationships, coordinates strategic initiatives, manages office resources, and supports senior stakeholders and legal teams. The role requires availability outside normal working hours when needed.

Advise on complex conflicts, confidentiality, information barriers, sanctions, anti-money laundering, and professional responsibility matters. Review and draft conflicts-related provisions in engagement letters, panel arrangements, client guidelines, RFPs, and firm policies. Liaise with partners and business teams, support global risk management, and contribute to training and awareness initiatives.

Supports attorneys in sophisticated commercial real estate transactions by reviewing title commitments, surveys, leases, diligence reports, searches, and closing documents. Prepares corporate resolutions, consents, title memoranda, checklists, and miscellaneous transaction materials. Coordinates documents across multi-state and multi-asset deals, tracks closing timelines, reviews estoppels and SNDAs, and manages post-closing requirements and recorded documents.

Prepare and review federal, state, local, and partnership tax filings; manage K-1 reporting, estimated payments, tax provisions, reconciliations, and partner tax reserves. Support tax planning, audits, regulatory inquiries, month-end and year-end close, and analysis of legislative changes. Improve tax processes, controls, documentation, and finance system efficiency while advising internal stakeholders and coordinating with external advisors.

Mid-level insurance litigation associate handling coverage disputes, contentious regulatory matters and professional negligence claims. Manage and deliver discrete legal work, draft and negotiate documents, support senior lawyers, delegate and mentor juniors, manage billing, and build client relationships while contributing to business development and firm initiatives.

Supports new business intake and matter management by opening clients and matters, generating matter numbers, setting up eBilling, monitoring regulatory and billing compliance, processing updates, answering internal inquiries, coordinating with global teams, and supporting process improvements and ad hoc projects.

Advises governments, regulators, energy market participants, and private capital clients on Australian energy regulation and infrastructure matters. Work includes regulatory strategy, energy market reform, project structuring, grid connections, revenue arrangements, government support mechanisms, M&A, joint ventures, and clean energy project development. The role requires translating complex regulatory frameworks into clear commercial advice while managing multiple priorities and contributing to Australia’s energy transition.

Provides administrative and operational support to Disputes partners and lawyers, including matter management, time entry, complex billing, calendar coordination, document preparation, client event organization, business development materials, and mentoring administrative assistants.

Lead the firm’s early careers recruitment strategy and programs across Australia. Manage graduate and vacation clerk attraction, university engagement, employer branding, social media, onboarding, development, rotations, and ongoing support. Partner with senior stakeholders and People teams, coach graduates, oversee projects, budgets, suppliers, and team members, and use recruitment metrics and program data to improve outcomes. The role also supports diversity, candidate experience, and continuous improvement across early careers initiatives.

Provide employment law and industrial relations advice to blue-chip clients, including workforce strategy, enterprise bargaining, disputes, industrial action, compliance, safety, payroll, M&A transactions, and regulatory matters. Represent clients before industrial regulators, the Fair Work Commission, and courts. Collaborate with leading partners while developing expertise in a market-leading practice.