About Avant Law Avant Law is a national specialist law firm looking for a 1-3 PAE Solicitor in Brisbane to join a team of purpose-driven lawyers who are passionate about defending medical practitioners. If you are looking for a law firm without daily billable targets and instead focussed upon collaboration, advocacy and making a difference for doctors we want to hear from you. This is an opportunity for a qualified Solicitor to develop their career working for Australia’s largest specialist medical defence law firm that has been recognised for its wide range of expertise. This is a permanent full-time role with a hybrid work arrangement. The key responsibilities include: Directly supporting the Legal Team Manager and senior lawyers, this role will see you deliver high quality, timely legal advice and services in respect of a broad range of medical defence matters to Avant Insurance claims managers and Avant’s members concerning litigated matters. Provide oral and written legal advice to members and Avant Insurance claims managers concerning civil litigation, legal claims and general medico-legal advice. Prepare and manage legal files relating to civil claims and other matters, contributing to the delivery and achievement of a superior and comprehensive legal service. Represent members in legal proceedings, attend court and through clear and persuasive advocacy achieve the best outcome for the member. To be successful in this role you will have: Demonstrated post admission experience in private practice (ideally 1- 3 PAE) in medical negligence and/or personal injury litigation. Relevant tertiary legal qualifications. Eligible to hold an unsupervised practising certificate as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia. Restricted practising certificates will also be considered at this level. Prior experience conducting all phases of defence personal injury or health litigation would be highly advantageous. Personable with the ability to express ideas effectively with proven excellent written and verbal communication skills. High level of prioritisation, time management and self-management skills. The ability to work collaboratively with the claims team on-site. Good computer literacy and competency to work in an electronic document management environment. Why work for Avant Law? You would be working for Australia’s largest specialist medico-legal law firm. You are guaranteed a varied pipeline of work from your instructing client, Avant Insurance, who are co-located. You will work with event-based billing (goodbye 6 minute units and daily billable targets!) You will get to work on a great variety and breadth of cases with a focus on medical indemnity claims. Avant Law offers a defined career progression and promotion pathway. You will be working in an open and collaborative environment with access to the top specialist medico-legal solicitors in the country. Flexible working practices offering hybrid working. Avant is Australia’s leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 130 years. Avant now represents 90,000 health practitioners and medical students across every state and territory, delivering market leading products and services to meet their professional, personal and practice needs. Building on this heritage, our vision is to be the most trusted professional partner in supporting doctors throughout their lives and careers. As a mutual organisation, owned by members and run purely for their benefit, our members are at the centre of all we do. As well as providing products and services to our member, we play a broader community role by advocating for improvements in the healthcare system and in quality, safety and professionalism in medicine, through delivering education and research activities. If you would like to learn more about this role, please contact Camilla Overall, Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner on camilla.overall@avant.org.au. To be considered for this role, you must apply directly via the link.
