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About us

Source Legal is an exciting, rapidly growing corporate business which offers Legal services across its New Zealand wide client base. We are a unique model that allows our Legal Professionals to work across NZ with various clients and sectors in an in-house capacity. Source lawyers are all employed directly by Source.

Source is an award-winning professional services firm that provides in-house style legal services to businesses, essentially operating as an outsourced legal department for our clients. Source has more than 50 lawyers across Australia and New Zealand, and is part of the wider HPX group, which also owns the law firm Hamilton Locke. 

With a unique work model Source have blended the best parts of Private Practice and In-house environments, offering a varied and exciting working environment with a flexible working policy - Choose how, where and when you work. Source lawyers enjoy the variety of working for multiple clients at one time, as well as the professional satisfaction of being truly embedded in their clients’ businesses.

At Source we are entirely values driven. We never bill by the hour and don't require our lawyers to keep track of their hours. Our focus is on client experience and giving our clients outstanding legal support.

The role

We are looking for an experienced Employment lawyer who is commercially savvy, highly responsive and who is comfortable providing clear and decisive legal advice. You will be given the opportunity to work in a diverse in-house style role, across sectors and clients of various sizes, with no billable hour or timesheet requirements.

We’re looking for someone:

• With solid New Zealand commercial and employment law experience advising private sector and government clients. We’re particularly interested in hearing from candidates who ideally, in addition to their New Zealand commercial and employment law experience, also have Australian employment and/or commercial law experience.
• With 5+ years’ post admission experience gained in private practice, government and/or in-house roles.
• Who has a strong entrepreneurial and innovative mind-set, and outstanding client management skills.
• Ideally, with a transportable client base and a proven track-record in business development.
• Who is commercially-minded and comfortable giving pragmatic, in-house style advice and making decisions – not sitting on the fence.
• Who is a self-starter, can work quickly, be adaptable, communicate clearly and is passionate about client experience.

What’s in it for you

• Being mentored and growing your skills in a supportive and high-performing team environment, with access to quality work, great clients and a wide-range of professional development opportunities.
• A fun and collaborative team environment with regular social events, training and team retreats.
• A varied and exciting work environment, as well as complete freedom to choose how, where and when to work.
• Being at the forefront of developing new ways of providing legal services.
• Interesting and varied work across many different industries.
• No time recording.
• Access to state-of-the-art legal business systems, software, technology and support services (like word processing, document design and paralegals).
• People experience programs like the Da Vinci Development Program (get an extra weeks’ leave after completing a personal development activity) and the Adventure Club (last year’s trips were to Queenstown or Cairns).
• Birthday leave.
• Being part of the HPX Group and work alongside Hamilton Locke, Australia's fastest growing law firm.

How to Apply?

We prefer to work directly with candidates, if you are interested in this role, please click the ‘Apply’ button or contact the consultant, details below, for more information.

For more information on Source Legal, please visit https://sourceservices.com.au or follow us on LinkedIn.

Accessibility and Inclusion

At HPX Group, our culture is made up of unique backgrounds and varying life experiences. We celebrate our people's differences across gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, cultural backgrounds, and family and caring arrangements.

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process. If you require any support or reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please contact us at talent@hpxgroup.com.au.

Agency submissions

HPX Group does not accept agency submissions unless the agency is specifically contacted by a member of the Recruitment Team. Please do not forward candidate profiles or resumes to partners, hiring managers or other employees - this will not constitute as an introduction to the firm and HPX Group will not be liable for a fee.

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