AO3 Legal Support Officer

Do you thrive on organisation, precision, and making a tangible difference every day? We're looking for highly motivated and versatile professionals to join our clients in multiple positions including Legal Secretaries, Legal Support Officers, and Paralegals.

The roles:

AO3 Legal Secretary

• Drafting, formatting, and proofreading legal documents, correspondence, and pleadings.
• Maintaining physical and electronic case files, ensuring absolute accuracy and accessibility.
• Managing client communication, answering phones, and providing a professional, welcoming first point of contact.

APS3 Legal Support Officer

• Creation and administration of case files, photocopying, filing, data entry, and records management.
• Drafting emails, routine correspondence, and documents from templates.
• Witness coordination, drafting summons/subpoenas, arranging travel and other court-related tasks.
• Preparing court materials, undertaking deliveries and collections, and lodging/filing documentation.
• Conducting basic research activities, arranging video conferencing, interpreters and translators.
• Liasing with Federal Prosecutors, external agencies, courts and counsel.

AO3 Paralegal

• Filing and serving legal documents on solicitors, barristers, doctors, business and other persons.
• Compiling and preparing documents including briefs to experts, mediators, or briefs to Counsel, indexes to brief and client files
• Providing administrative support in trial preparation and assistance at trial
• Legal research
• Drafting routine correspondence and court documentation
• Arranging meetings, appointments, conferences and interviews as required
• Maintaining systems
• Liaising with clients, counsel, legal practitioners, expert witnesses and staff
• Other ad hoc duties as required

What we are looking for:

• Candidates MUST have previous experience in one of the positions listed above
• Previous Government experience is an advantage but not essential
• MUST be able to work full time hours each week and attend the office Monday - Friday
• Legal qualifications highly regarded
• MUST be available to start as soon as possible
• Australian Citizens required for Federal Government. Australian residents with no working restrictions required for State Government roles

If you meet the above requirements, please click apply now.

Only suitable candidates will be contacted.

At Randstad, we are passionate about providing equal employment opportunities and embracing diversity to the benefit of all. We actively encourage applications from any background.