Baker McKenzie

Think Opportunity, Think Baker McKenzie!

We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate to join our dynamic Technology, Communications and Commercial practice in Sydney. 

This role offers you the opportunity to accelerate your career while working on matters alongside leading Partners, including Adrian Lawrence, Anne Petterd, Caitlin Whale and Jarrod Bayliss-McCulloch. You will gain hands-on experience across matters, working directly with clients and building the foundations of long-term professional relationships. You will also benefit from exceptional learning and development opportunities, supported by experienced partners and senior lawyers who ae invested in your growth. Most importantly, you will be an integral member of a highly dynamic, ambitious and collaborative team.

Our practice 

Baker McKenzie thrives in the face of constant innovation and profitability with the technology of tomorrow. Continuous innovation is essential if organisations want to take full advantage of new opportunities, making it crucial for companies to become more efficient and creative in how they develop, source, and use technology.

We have amassed a wealth of experience over the past four decades as a global leader that offers scalable, flexible solutions customised to clients' needs, budget and resources, across diverse business functions and operation locations. We are the largest Data & Technology Group in the world, ranked Band 1 by Chambers Global for TMT, Data Protection and Outsourcing by Chambers Global for 13 consecutive years. 

Our lawyers work across borders and practice areas to advise providers and users on technology, outsourcing, digital regulation, data privacy, information management, communications and mobility issues — designing compliance programs to protect critical business interests and using novel structures for new technology offerings. No other law firm has more experience helping clients navigate the legal and commercial risks on the sourcing, use and provision of technology. 

Thanks to our collaborative approach, we can help our clients to remain compliant, innovative and profitable in what remains a quickly evolving industry.

At Baker McKenzie, our flat structure means you will have direct exposure to clients, responsibility for meaningful involvement across a broad range of matters, and opportunities for progression. You will also regularly work with our extensive network of global colleagues and clients. 

About you

We are looking for talented lawyers with 2-4 years’ PQE gained at a top-tier or leading international law firm. 

To succeed in this role, you will bring:

• 2-4 years' experience in complex technology, regulatory and commercial work, preferable working within a similar large firm environment with a focus on larger, transactional deals and complex regulatory and advisory matters; 
• experience in drafting technology contracts and agreements, and providing advice on the supply and procurement of goods or services in the digital, technology, telecommunications and media sectors. Exposure to digital and telecommunications regulations, including privacy, online safety, cybersecurity, media and broadcasting regulation would be desirable;
• relevant experience in a top tier or leading international firm preferred;
• a strong client service orientation;
• strong technical, drafting and commercial skills;
• excellent analytical, communication, and research skills;
• a commitment to high work standards and strong attention to detail;
• an ability to demonstrate initiative and proactivity;
• an ability to develop strong relationships with clients and to take responsibility for this relationship;
• an ability to work well in a team environment (including across Australian offices and internationally);
• relevant legal qualifications; and
• a willingness to learn.

At Baker McKenzie, we are different in the way we think, work and behave. The first local, truly global law firm in Australia, we commenced operations in Sydney in 1964, in Melbourne in 1982 and in Brisbane in 2014. With our breadth of experience in the local market and global connectivity, we are the law firm of choice for Australian and multinational companies. We have 6,500 lawyers globally who work seamlessly together – across practice groups, sectors and markets – to provide our clients with the connected perspectives, integrated solutions and seamless guidance they need to succeed in an increasingly interconnected global market.

Baker McKenzie Australia can offer you access to complex, market-leading matters working with some of the world's best legal minds – people who know the law and who understand business. We have an unrivalled ability to provide training and secondment opportunities across our global network. Locally, we have an inclusive culture of learning, coaching and opportunity where you will work as part of teams on matters that often cross borders. We value people who think ahead and get noticed.

At Baker McKenzie, our flat structure means you will have direct exposure to our clients, responsibility for meaningful involvement across a broad range of matters, and opportunities for progression. You will also regularly work with our extensive network of global colleagues and clients.

Our benefits

• Financial: competitive remuneration package, generous bonus scheme, salary continuance insurance, life insurance, salary sacrifice options, employee discounts, referral rewards, and travel insurance for you and your immediate family.
• Learning & development opportunities: client and international office secondments and regional and global development programs.
• Flexibility: hybrid and flexible working arrangements to balance your work and lifestyle.
• Leave: 26 weeks' paid parental leave for parents/carers (with no minimum service) with access to an external coaching service, ability to purchase additional annual leave, flexible public holidays and volunteer leave.
• Health & wellbeing programs: Employee Assistance Program including confidential counselling and wellbeing and financial coaching for you and your immediate family, flu vaccinations and discounted health insurance.

Inclusion, Diversity & Equity

Baker McKenzie is committed to providing a diverse, inclusive and equitable culture for all of its employees, with equal opportunity for all to progress and have a meaningful career with our Firm. As part of our inclusive culture, we welcome applications from people of all genders (including if you identify as transgender or gender diverse), sexual orientations, abilities, cultural backgrounds, as well as First Nations peoples and people with caring responsibilities, neurodivergent lived experiences and disabilities. We want all applicants to be given the best possible opportunity to succeed in our recruitment processes, so invite you to let us know of any reasonable adjustments you require to equitably participate in our recruitment processes or in performing the requirements of a role at Baker McKenzie.

We appreciate that everyone's needs are different. Please contact us so that we can work with you to best support you in our recruitment processes. We are happy to share accommodations we've made in the past and are keen to work with you personally, to set you up for success.

Apply today!
 

If you are interested in the above role, we would love to hear from you! Please click "Apply". 

If you would like to find out more or have a confidential chat, please contact me by email on holly.mcknight@bakermckenzie.com.