Advocacy Lawyer - Mental Health Law | Practice Leader

Lead a specialist legal team appearing before courts and tribunals on complex mental health matters.

• Newly created leadership role within Crown Law
• Appear before courts + specialist tribunals on complex, high-profile matters
• Mental health law or transferable advocacy experience

Your New Workplace

Crown Law is the in-house law firm for the Queensland Government, providing trusted legal advice and representation across a broad range of complex and significant matters.

Working at Crown Law offers the opportunity to contribute to legal outcomes that impact Queensland communities while collaborating with highly regarded legal professionals in an environment that values expertise, integrity and service.

Your New Team

The Community Safety - Mental Health Law Team is a specialist practice within Crown Law's Public Law and Prosecutions Branch.

Acting on behalf of the Attorney-General, the team provides legal advice and representation in matters arising under the Mental Health Act and related legislation. The practice regularly appears before the Mental Health Court and Mental Health Review Tribunal, advising on complex, sensitive and often precedent-setting.

Your New Role

This newly created Assistant Crown Solicitor position reflects Crown Law's ongoing investment in leadership capability and legal service delivery.

Reporting to the Deputy Crown Solicitor, you will lead a specialist team of lawyers while overseeing the delivery of complex legal services, developing team capability and maintaining strong relationships with government stakeholders.

Combining leadership, advocacy and strategic legal expertise, you will play a key role in shaping the future direction of the practice while contributing to the broader leadership of Crown Law.

Key responsibilities include

• Leading, mentoring and developing a team of lawyers
• Acting as a senior subject matter expert in mental health law and related areas
• Providing strategic and authoritative advice on complex and sensitive matters
• Appearing before the Mental Health Court and Mental Health Review Tribunal
• Shaping litigation and advocacy strategies across significant matters
• Building and maintaining trusted relationships with government clients and stakeholders
• Driving excellence in legal service delivery, governance and risk management
• Supporting capability development and continuous improvement initiatives across the practice

Crown Law offers an inclusive, balanced workplace with achievable billable targets and genuine flexibility, giving senior lawyers space to lead without private practice pressure. Total package includes a 15% ARI that recognises senior expertise, other benefits include competitive superannuation, parental leave and wellbeing initiatives.

Your Skills Profile

You will be an experienced lawyer with strong advocacy skills, sound judgement and the ability to lead and develop high-performing teams.

While experience in mental health law will be highly regarded, we are also interested in speaking with lawyers from related practice areas who can demonstrate transferable expertise and a strong advocacy background.

You will bring

• Approximately 10+ years' post-admission experience in mental health law or a related practice area
• Strong advocacy experience, including appearing before courts, tribunals or other decision-making bodies
• Experience advising on complex statutory and regulatory frameworks
• Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring or developing legal practitioners

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