Senior Legal Counsel

Job Description

• Senior Legal Counsel (Permanent) 

• Pyrmont, NSW | Hybrid | Commercial Legal Team

Company Overview: 

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitise the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. 

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed, and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

About Domain:

Domain is a leading property technology and services marketplace that is home to one of the largest portfolios of property brands in Australia, including the Domain, Allhomes and Commercial Real Estate (CRE) platforms. In 2025, Domain became part of CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP), a global leader in commercial real estate information, analytics, online marketplaces and 3D digital twin technology. Together, Domain and CoStar Group is dedicated to digitising the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights, and connections that improve their businesses and lives. 

About the Role: 

We’re looking for a Permanent Senior Legal Counsel to join Domain’s Commercial Legal Team. This role is central to ensuring the business operates in a legally sound and commercially practical way, with a strong focus on commercial disputes, regulatory matters, IP protection, litigation and advisory work across digital products and data.

As Domain continues to grow within the broader CoStar Group, you’ll partner closely with senior leaders across the business and act as a trusted adviser on both day-to-day matters and complex strategic issues. This is an amazing opportunity to join us, post acquisition by CoStar Group, as we embark on a period of significant growth where this role will be pivotal 

You’ll act as a legal business partner to teams across Domain, with responsibility for:

• Initiating claims and managing commercial disputes, including negotiations to support positive dispute resolution.

• Responding to regulatory investigations and engaging directly with regulators where required.

• Enforcing Domain’s IP rights across products and brands.

• Proactively taking action against third parties engaging in misleading or deceptive conduct or IP infringement.

• Reviewing, drafting, and negotiating commercial contracts—including services agreements, software agreements, licences and technology-related contracts.

• Advising on contract risks, commercial terms and practical pathways that align with business objectives.

• Working closely with product teams to review new products or new data-use proposals before launch.

• Advising on misleading and deceptive conduct in marketing collateral.

• Advising on privacy laws, data usage rights, and compliance considerations for digital products.

• Identifying legal risks in commercial proposals and partnering with the business to find compliant, commercial solutions.

• Providing advice that is both technically sound and pragmatic.

• Operating confidently in ambiguity and supporting the business to deliver on key strategies.

• Contributing to a strong legal culture and acting as an ambassador for the Legal Team across the organisation.
   

• 6–10 years PQE gained at a reputable law firm, ideally within a Litigation or Disputes team.

• Experience in digital, technology or data-driven environments (in-house or secondment experience is beneficial but not essential).

• Strong experience managing disputes, including IP, consumer law and misleading/deceptive conduct matters.

• Experience managing disputes before courts, tribunals and regulators in addition to managing external law firms.

• Experience dealing with regulators and responding to regulatory investigations.

• Experience reviewing and advising on digital product launches, focusing on data usage, privacy and misleading and deceptive conduct.

• Strong communicator who can influence and partner effectively across the business.

• Capable of managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment with high volumes of live matters.

• Thrives in a small, hands-on legal team—comfortable rolling up your sleeves and taking on varied tasks as needed.

• Collaborative, adaptable and commercially minded.

• Strong commercial acumen and a business focused mind.

• Strong capability across disputes, consumer law, privacy, contract law and intellectual property.

• Ability to identify and assess risks and provide practical, business-focused advice.

• High attention to detail and a proactive “get-up-and-go” approach.

• Ability to run matters independently while looping in the Head of Legal (Commercial) or the CLO as needed.
   

• Law degree (LLB or JD).

• Admitted to practise in Australia with a current practising certificate.

Why join us?  

We're the kind of place you can make a real impact, with a workplace culture where you can be you. It's a fun, safe space where you'll always feel you belong. Perks of the role include: 

• Hybrid working with 3 days in the office

• Continuous opportunities to leap, learn and grow in a team that values creativity and innovation 

We don't just talk, we do. Every day we solve property problems for Australians and beyond. We encourage our people to see the possibilities, and turn them into realities.  

What's next? 

We'll give your application the thoughtful attention it deserves and get back to you as soon as possible. If there's a match, one of our recruitment consultants will reach out so keep your phone handy! We're genuinely excited about the chance to work together and make a meaningful impact. 

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at Domain 

Domain is enthusiastically and unapologetically committed to fostering an equitable, inclusive work culture which reflects our customers and communities. We are proactively looking for candidates from all lived experiences, including people with disability, and people of all ages, ethnicities, cultures (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples), faiths, sexual orientations, and gender identities (including trans and non-binary people). 

We are committed to providing an equitable recruitment process for people with disability. If you require adjustments during the process we're here to support. If you wish to receive this job advertisement in an accessible format, or have a confidential chat about workplace adjustments, please contact our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion team at [email protected] or leave a message on 1300 858 356 and we will get back to you.

CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing