This is a Legal Costing Solicitor role with Shine Lawyers based in Melbourne, VIC, AU Shine Lawyers Role Seniority - mid level More about the Legal Costing Solicitor role at Shine Lawyers A place for you. It means more here. We bring true purpose, authentic people and a proven path. You bring you. The Opportunity At Shine, we champion better justice for our clients. And as a permanent Legal Costing Solicitor, that starts with you. You’ll deliver expert legal costing guidance to our Victorian teams, ensuring cost recovery is optimised across every matter. You’ll support best practice, enhance our costing capability, and contribute to stronger outcomes for both our clients and our legal teams. Reporting to our National Legal Costing Manager, this is an excellent opportunity to step away from front‑line casework in the Victorian personal injury jurisdiction, and move into an advisory role that shapes best practice in legal costing across our teams. While our legal costing team is centralised in Melbourne CBD, we are open to the successful candidate working from an alternate office in Shine Lawyers Victoria, whilst maintaining the requirements of your role. And while this role is full-time, we are also open to discussions around a flexible work arrangement for the right candidate with relevant experience. With empathy, adaptability and initiative, you will be: Advising Legal, Settlement and Third-Party Recovery teams on all aspects of cost management, including costs agreements, cost recovery strategies, and negotiation of settlements. Providing recommendations on optimal costing methodologies across various jurisdictions to maximise case recoverability. Offering advice on improving time recording practices to enhance cost recovery efficiency. Providing guidance on sanctioned cases, including preparation of itemised accounts for submission to trustees. Preparing accurate and comprehensive costs assessments for compulsory conferences, mediations, and post-resolution proceedings to optimise recovery. Producing itemised accounts of costs and disbursements, on request. What you’ll bring Experience as a personal injury solicitor in Victoria Experience and/or the desire to pursue a career in legal costing. Strong commercial acumen and problem-solving skills Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to manage internal stakeholders, clients, and third parties, including external cost assessors. Foundational statistical and numerical understanding of data, including strong Microsoft Excel skills and attention to detail. A commitment to truly connect with those around you and work together to deliver exceptional results for our clients. The ability to deliver outcomes across a variety of competing priorities. Shine Lawyers: A place for you. It means more here. At Shine, purpose really matters. It’s our clients, who summon the courage to stand up to injustice. It’s the communities we are part of and support every day. It’s our team, who champion what’s right and make this place what it is. We’re an ASX-listed organisation, and we've been standing up for the rights of everyday Australians for more than 45 years. We’ve achieved a lot, but you’ll find no airs and graces here. We’re humble yet relentless. We don’t pretend to be anything other than ourselves. And together, we’ve created a place for you to thrive. Here are some of the things we hope you’ll love about working with us: Connect and be you: Get the benefits you need, and work with truly authentic people. And you can enjoy the security of a large, well-established firm that treats you as a person, not a number. Challenge and be challenged: We’re not here for “easy”. We want you to take your place at Shine and make a real impact. Question and challenge - that’s how we grow. Achieve and grow: Start your Shine journey with our in-house learning programs, where you’ll find immediate connection and be set up for success. You will be provided real opportunities to step up and grow - within your role and beyond. Visit https://www.shine.com.au/careers/life-shine to find out more and read the stories of our incredible people. Excited to join us and stand up to injustice? Join us and build a career that means so much more. Apply now and make Shine Justice a place for you. As part of The Circle Back Initiative, we want you to feel supported through our recruitment process, which means that you will hear back from our friendly team - no matter the outcome. We are committed to making Shine Lawyers a place for you by encouraging and supporting our people to bring their authentic selves to the workplace, and as a result, we know you’ll put your best self forward while righting wrong for our clients. We’re passionate about maintaining a diverse and inclusive environment here at Shine that celebrates all of our differences with age, disability, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, to name a few, and we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates. You bring you. Before we jump into the responsibilities of the role. No matter what you come in knowing, you’ll be learning new things all the time and the Shine Lawyers team will be there to support your growth. Please consider applying even if you don't meet 100% of what’s outlined Key Responsibilities Delivering expert legal costing guidance Supporting best practices in costing Preparing accurate costs assessments Key Strengths ⚖️ Experience as a personal injury solicitor in Victoria Strong commercial acumen and problem-solving skills Exceptional stakeholder management skills Foundational statistical and numerical understanding of data Attention to detail Desire to pursue a career in legal costing A Final Note: This is a role with Shine Lawyers not with Hatch.
