You will work with outstanding lawyers in a collaborative environment to deliver best-in-class legal advice and service to our clients. You can expect substantive work across multiple practice areas, direct client contact, meaningful mentoring, and ongoing professional development opportunities.
    

You will work along side another Paralegal supporting 5 practitioners in administering electronic and physical files.

Tasks will include: 

• file management, indexing documents and collating financial disclosure documents
• collating and updating Court documents
• opening new client files physically and electronically
• archiving completed files
• drafting documents
• dictaphone typing
• general office duties including answering the phone, greeting clients and collecting mail.

Policy, Reform and Legislation is responsible for ensuring that the legal and policy framework of the Department of the Communities and Justice is aligned with the government's current priorities. This role includes ensuring quality legal policy advice is provided to Ministers, formulating changes to the law, and implementing Ministers’ legislative programs, within the communities and justice sector.

As an intelligence professional, you will have a diverse and rewarding career and make a difference every day. You will embrace the complexity within the security environment and confront the challenges, driving investigative outcomes that make real world change. With your team, you will collect information and use your critical thinking and communication skills to connect the dots – to stop terrorists and catch spies. 

Your role will place you at the centre of the intelligence cycle – you will:

• Manage and assist in CTP and Workers Compensation claims
• Liaise with clients and provide clear, compassionate legal support
• Draft legal documents and conduct legal research
• Work collaboratively with our team to progress and resolve cases efficiently.

What We Offer

At Shine Lawyers, we pride ourselves on working tirelessly to pave the way in securing justice for those in our community. And as a participant in our 2026 Summer Clerkship Program, you’ll gain valuable, hands-on experience, within a supportive environment though a four-week paid clerkship program.

• Manage files end-to-end across estate planning, probate, and estate administration.
• Draft & review Wills, Powers of Attorney, Probate Applications, testamentary trusts, and related documents, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Provide client-centred advice, explaining complex concepts with clarity and empathy (always under senior supervision).
• Research legislation and emerging best practice in Wills & Estates law, keeping our knowledge base current.
• Improve our digital platform by testing workflows, suggesting automations, and feeding insights to

• Preparing and processing property documentation including legal documents and general correspondence
• Providing support to the Solicitors
• Maintaining all files and keeping the database up to date
• Liaising with clients, lenders and other external stakeholders and colleagues
• Opportunity to learn and grow in the property space
• Conveyancing Assistance in preparing settlements for clients, including taking carriage of matters from exchange to settlement
• Sale Contract Preparation for both residential and off plan developers.

The person who is suitable for this role would be someone who is looking to start or continue their career as a paralegal.

The Role

• Opening and closing files
• Dictation work & data entry
• Assist solicitors in management of files
• File management
• Research and legal assistant work
• Other general administrative duties 

There is room for growth with our firm to carry out more substantive work.