Outstanding Opportunities

Baker & McKenzie is a truly integrated global law firm and our Australian practice is the fourth largest in the network. With 85 partners, over 250 legal staff and more than 650 staff in total, Baker & McKenzie Australia is large enough to offer you access to complex and market-leading work, outstanding professional development opportunities and all the benefits you would expect from a leading commercial law firm. 

What differentiates us is our ability, because of our size, to give you direct access to major clients, real responsibility and an opportunity to shine throughout your career.  We have a flat structure which encourages a friendly, informal work environment. This, combined with our unrivalled ability to provide international work and training and secondment opportunities with our 70 international offices, means that what we offer is unique.

The firm prides itself on a strong commitment to professional development, assisting staff to gain the skills they require throughout their career. In addition, our commitment to pro bono is genuine. We believe that the provision of pro bono legal service is a fundamental professional responsibility. Being a successful corporate lawyer and making a difference should not be mutually exclusive concepts, so we equip our lawyers with the support and mentoring needed to ensure that they can make pro bono and community service a part of their professional lives. We also have a program of social and sporting activities that provide opportunities for social engagement outside of work hours.

Some of our achievements include:

• No. 1 in PLC Which Lawyer?’s Global 50 each of the past four years
• Best Firm in Asia Pacific in PLC Which Lawyer? for three years running
• China Practice of the Year in Asia Legal Business for two consecutive years
• Most leading lawyers (206) in the most countries (36) in the 2007 Chambers Global Directory of the World’s Leading Lawyers among the Global 20
• Among Asialaw’s Best Law Firms to Work For in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
• lawcareers.net’s Best Trainer – Large City Law Firm in London for the past four years

For more insights into working at Baker & McKenzie, see our Partners and Senior Associates on video:

http://www.bakernet.com/newsletters/aus/themaking.htm

Areas of practice
Baker & McKenzie Australia is a full-service commercial law firm that delivers innovative legal solutions for our clients. We offer our people outstanding work in traditional areas of commercial law as well as in ground-breaking areas such as our market leading Climate Change practice.

Our practice groups are:

• Corporate (including specialist teams in Financial Services, Environment and Environmental Markets (including Climate Change), Infrastructure and Major Projects, Hotels, Resorts and Tourism, Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Markets, Natural Resources and Energy and Private Equity)
• Banking and Finance
• Commercial Real Estate
• Construction
• Employment
• Information, Technology and Communications
• Intellectual Property
• Dispute Resolution
• Tax

Current opportunities
We have excellent opportunities for experienced lawyers in the following areas.

• Corporate
• Front-end Construction
• IT/C
• Infrastructure and Major Projects