Paralegal - Avant Law Civil team

Avant is Australia’s leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 130 years.

Avant now represents over 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.

Avant Law is seeking a Paralegal to join our Brisbane team on a full-time permanent basis. If you are passionate about collaboration, advocacy and making a difference for Avant’s members we want to hear from you.

The key responsibilities include:

• Assisting Solicitors in the management of a legal practice and contribute to the effective functioning of the Legal team.
• Provide an administrative support function to Avant Law including assisting to prepare legal documentation including briefs, drafting correspondence, preparation of summaries and chronologies, court filing, liaising with witnesses, experts, court and/or tribunal staff and assisting with processing of Avant Law’s invoices for professional services.
• Assisting with general office administration including supporting the Medico Legal Advice line and CAL IB lines with calls from Avant members.
• Co-ordinating meetings and travel arrangements.
• Processing accounts payable invoices, monthly billings and MasterCard reconciliations.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Previous demonstrated experience in a paralegal or administrative position in a legal environment.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Fast and accurate typing skills including digital dictation typing.
• Experience drafting and formatting legal documentation including briefs and court documentation.
• The ability to balance multiple priorities, meet deadlines and show attention to detail.
• Intermediate level of competence in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Experience in preparing and maintaining legal files.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Fast and accurate typing skills.

Why work for Avant Law?

• You would be working for Australia’s largest specialist medico-legal law firm.
• You are guaranteed a pipeline of work from your instructing client, Avant Insurance, who are co-located.
• You will get to work on a great variety and breadth of medical indemnity cases.
• You will be working in an open and collaborative environment with access to the top specialist medico-legal solicitors in the country.

We prefer to deal with candidates directly. If you have any queries regarding the role, please do not hesitate to contact Camilla Overall, Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner on camilla.overall@avant.org.au.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Avant supports doctors so they can serve Australia's diverse communities. Having diversity in our workforce brings valuable perspectives and strengthens our ability to support healthcare professionals.
We therefore welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with disabilities, and those with caring responsibilities.

Our inclusive workplace is somewhere everyone can succeed.

Ready to join us? If you're passionate about supporting Australia's healthcare professionals, we'd love to hear from you. If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to contact us at careers@avant.org.au