Senior Associate / Special Counsel – Healthcare (Defendant)

Senior Associate / Special Counsel – Healthcare (Defendant)

Location: Australia (flexible across offices or remote)

At Kennedys, our Healthcare team continues to go from strength to strength. As part of our ambitious growth strategy across Australia, we are looking to appoint a high-calibre Senior Associate or Special Counsel to join our nationally integrated practice.

You will work closely with Cindy Tucker, Anjali Woodford, Maya Parbhoo, and Natalie Orola, leaders in the healthcare litigation space, on a broad mix of complex, high-value and often sensitive matters.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

This is a genuinely exciting opportunity to:

• Work on market-leading defendant healthcare and medical negligence matters
• Be part of a globally connected healthcare practice, collaborating with colleagues across the UK, US and APAC
• Take on strategic, intellectually challenging work with real client impact
• Play a key role in the continued growth of our national team
• Mentor and support junior lawyers in their career development

We are also open to conversations with senior practitioners seeking a clear and credible pathway to Partnership, with the support and structure to help you get there.

ABOUT YOU:

 We're keen to hear from experienced lawyers who:

• Are operating at Senior Associate or Special Counsel level (or equivalent)
• Have strong defendant experience in healthcare / medical negligence
• Proven ability to manage complex, high-value litigation matters independently
• Bring sound technical ability alongside commercial judgement and client focus
• Are collaborative, pragmatic and motivated to contribute to a growing national practice

WHY HEALTHCARE AT KENNEDYS:

Our Healthcare team is known for more than just the work we do.

We pride ourselves on being:

• Inclusive and supportive – a genuinely collegiate environment where people are valued
• Flexible – we embrace agile working and understand the importance of balance
• Stable and well-established - with long-standing client relationships and consistent growth
• Family-oriented – many of our team have built long-term careers here alongside their lives outside of work
• You'll be joining a team where people stay, develop and progress.

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys. 

About Kennedys

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,750 people worldwide across 48 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.

Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

What do we have to offer?

We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.

Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive and distinctive. Our values are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.

The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles.  A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.

We strive to celebrate diversity, empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work.  We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority.  We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work.  Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.

Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.