Baker McKenzie

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Join Baker McKenzie’s leading Commercial Real Estate team as a Conveyancing Paralegal.  Play a meaningful role contributing to high-volume, high-impact residential projects across Melbourne’s landmark developments. 

Our practice

Our Commercial Real Estate team, led by Dora Stilianos and Emily Peverill, partners with major developers, fund managers, and institutional investors to deliver seamless conveyancing solutions for landmark residential and mixed-use projects across Melbourne and beyond. We specialise in high-volume transactions, including “off the plan” sales, broad-acre land sales and complex subdivisions.

Our team’s expertise spans a diverse range of property sectors, including luxury residential, renewables, and commercial developments. We’re known for helping clients navigate specialised accommodation requirements and for our hands-on approach to bulk settlements and electronic conveyancing.

Working closely with colleagues across our global network and related practice groups, we provide comprehensive, integrated legal services that support our clients’ ambitions and set new standards in the industry.

About you 

You will manage conveyancing files from contract to settlement, focusing on residential “off the plan” projects, broad-acre land sales and subdivisions. You will also manage electronic settlements using PEXA and integrated platforms, register dealings with the titles office, and support the team through high-volume, high-value transactions. 

With our culture of mentoring, you can expect to receive active coaching from an experienced and leading manager, who will guide and develop you in all aspects of conveyancing.

You will have at least three years' experience in residential conveyancing and be ready to take the next step in your career. 

You will also have: 

About us

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 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 and responsibility for meaningful involvement across a broad range of matters. You will also regularly work with our extensive network of global colleagues and clients.

Our benefits

• Financial: competitive remuneration package, salary continuance insurance, salary sacrifice options, employee discounts, referral rewards, and travel insurance for you and your immediate family.
• Learning & development opportunities: 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 including 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 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 natalie.mascarenhas@bakermckenzie.com or by phone on +61 401 685 956.