Use Your Family Law Experience Where It Can Make a Difference
You’ve built experience in family law and want to use it somewhere the focus is less on billable targets and more on the quality and impact of the work you do.
Women’s Legal Service Queensland is looking for a Family Law Solicitor to join its Ipswich Advice Team, providing practical, client-centred legal advice to women navigating some of the most difficult periods in their lives.
The Organisation
Women’s Legal Service Queensland provides legal and social support to women across Queensland, with specialist services spanning family law, domestic and family violence, child protection and other areas of legal and social need.
For a family lawyer, this is an opportunity to undertake meaningful legal work within a collaborative environment, with the focus firmly on client outcomes, access to justice and sustainable legal practice.
The Opportunity
Based in Ipswich, you’ll provide high-quality family law advice to women who may be navigating complex and challenging circumstances.
You’ll help clients understand their legal position, the options available to them and the practical steps they can take, communicating in a way that is clear, sensitive and client-centred. You’ll work alongside a collaborative team with access to strong supervision, mentoring and professional development, without the pressure of billable hour targets.
For someone who enjoys the client-facing side of family law, it’s an opportunity to continue developing your skills while doing work with genuine purpose.
Why WLSQ?
- No billable hour targets
- Flexible working arrangements may be available
- Supportive supervision and mentoring
- Genuine professional development opportunities
- Collaborative and values-led team environment
- Meaningful, hands-on client work
- A workplace focused on wellbeing and sustainable legal practice
- The opportunity to contribute to access to justice for women
You'll have 2+ years PAE with family law experience, strong client communication skills and a genuine commitment to access to justice. You’ll bring a collaborative, client-centred approach and the ability to support women through complex and challenging circumstances.
Please note: It is a genuine occupational requirement for this position that the incumbent be a woman under section 25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld).
Contact Alex or Jennifer on 07 3210 0992 | Reference: 1386231 | www.alexcorreaexecutive.com.au
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