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Careers Guide

Springboard Careers Guide

Get ready with our Springboard Careers Guide 2021

 

Getting ready for the sessions:

  1. Ready: read up on firms, view the Careers Guide and see the clerkship season dates (August 13).

  2. Get set: get ready for Zoom. You will need to get the latest Zoom update from here.

  3. Present: wear appropriate formal attire. Feel free to introduce yourself and ask questions. Refer to the student guide for some examples. You can join and leave as many sessions as you like.

Session 1: 3 PM - 5 PM


Corrs Chambers Westgarth
Aug
10

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Zoom link: https://qut.zoom.us/j/88246352142?pwd=cEdQM1hUVUEyUTVPa1QxaTg3MkpUQT09

Who are you and what makes you unique? 
We provide exceptional legal services across the full spectrum of matters, including major transactions, projects and significant disputes, offering strategic advice on our clients’ most challenging issues.

The culture of the firm (For example, social aspects, sport opportunity and values)
With more than 175 years of history and a talented and diverse team of over 1000 people, we pride ourselves on our client-focused approach and commitment to excellence. Our fundamental ambition is the success of our clients, and this is reflected in everything we do.

We advise on the most significant global matters and connect with the best lawyers internationally to provide our clients with the right team for every engagement. We are also at the forefront of some of the most high-profile public international law matters in our region, assisting governments and corporations with the resolution of highly complex cross-border disputes.

We are the firm of choice for many of the world’s leading organisations, with our people consistently recognised for providing outstanding client service and delivering exceptional results.

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DLA Piper
Aug
10

DLA Piper

Zoom link: https://qut.zoom.us/j/86725399164?pwd=azRnRUM0VVBxL0NSMU1pamdGa1EwUT09

Who are you and what makes you unique?

We help the world's top companies with their business-critical issues. Many of the deals we work on are complex and challenging – transcending not just practice areas, but borders, languages and legal systems.

As a firm, we never stand still. We think nimbly and seize opportunities. We're ambitious and are never afraid to innovate. So if you possess these qualities too, there could be a bright future for you at DLA Piper.

The culture of the firm (For example, social aspects, sport opportunity and values)

We are committed to attracting, developing and retaining the best people across our practice and business services groups. Our continued success relies on our ability to provide a supportive, inclusive and motivating environment where everyone has a role to play in supporting the delivery of outstanding service to our clients.

We offer exceptional career opportunities to our lawyers, aspiring graduates and business support professionals, in an environment that is challenging, rewarding and, we believe, truly different from our competitors. 

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Barry.Nilsson.
Aug
10

Barry.Nilsson.

Zoom link: https://qut.zoom.us/j/81698251722?pwd=czFremQrMVhMUFpZWE0wMkJGZHFhZz


Who we are and what makes us unique

Established for more than 50 years, Barry.Nilsson. is a national law firm currently comprising over 220 staff.  The firm has a national, award-winning reputation for leadership in the areas of: insurance & health, property & commercial and family law.  Due to our focus on three specific areas of law, we can offer you “top tier” work and clients coupled with “mid tier” individual attention.

The culture of the firm (For example, social aspects, sport opportunity and values)

We are proud of the culture we have developed by living and breathing our core values of Trustworthiness, Dedication, Excellence and Loyalty.  Barry.Nilsson. has a very collegiate team environment and all employees are valued for their contribution.  In recognition of this, and in order to encourage employees to have a good work/life balance, all full-time staff members enjoy every second Friday afternoon off.  This displays our progressive approach and is indicative of the culture we promote. The firm also has a strong belief in giving back to the community and being socially responsible, including initiatives such as our staff attending community legal centres and membership with QPILCH and their self-representation service.

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MinterEllison
Aug
10

MinterEllison

Zoom link: https://qut.zoom.us/j/82648947400?pwd=RzUydGtnQXpiMHQyM2RnTEhlU2RtUT09

Who are you and what makes you unique?

At MinterEllison our aspiration is to be our clients’ best partner. Our large, diverse client base includes public and private companies, leading multinationals operating in the region, global financial institutions, and government and state-owned entities.

We think beyond the law and apply a commercial approach and creative thinking to some of the region’s most high-profile transactions, projects and disputes. We draw on the extensive capability of our own office network and relationships with other leading firms around the world to deliver seamless service to our clients wherever they need us.

The culture of the firm (For example, social aspects, sport opportunity and values)

If you start your career at MinterEllison, your experience in the first few years will be full of challenging and exciting work, support and mentorship, and professional and personal growth, all the while having the opportunity to develop new networks and friendships.

We invest heavily in the development and empowerment of our talent through our carefully designed clerkship and graduate programs, and look to give graduates opportunities to collaborate, innovate and inspire from day one. This investment includes a number of MinterEllison's career development initiatives that drive our success with clients, our growth, and our unique culture.

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Thomson Geer
Aug
10

Thomson Geer

 Zoom link: https://qut.zoom.us/j/81471881076?pwd=KzRBSE5lTGViTnlFMHQveHkzMjBtdz09

Who are you and what makes you unique? 
We are a large Australian Corporate law firm. We have 85 Partners and more than 275 other professionals operating out of our offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide. Our industry coverage and client work is diverse.

We have access to high quality work for major institutional clients in sectors such as banking, construction, energy, health, telecommunications, property development and gaming and leisure giving our lawyers exposure to excellent work while maintaining small teams where each lawyer gets to develop and learn from senior lawyers including partners.


The culture of the firm (For example, social aspects, sport opportunity and values)
The Law is an incredibly rewarding profession, however we also recognise that it can be demanding. For this reason Thomson Geer aims to create an environment that is flexible, friendly, personable, collegiate and professionally stimulating.  We work hard to enhance this culture through transparent and authentic communication, and by ensuring we are respectful and accountable to each other every day. Our clients are at the centre of everything we do; so it is not only the openness we demonstrate in our dealings with each other, but also the well-established and trusting relationships we have with our clients, which make Thomson Geer a great place to work. We also have an active social committee with lots of opportunities to develop close relationships with your colleagues.  Our lawyers and other staff also practice their teamwork outside of the office by participating in various sporting teams.

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Ashurst
Aug
10

Ashurst

Zoom link: https://qut.zoom.us/j/89492129413?pwd=WGhLZVl6MnZINXRGT0QwTi95VjRNdz09

 Who are you and what makes you unique? 

We’re renowned for helping our clients navigate through a complex and constantly evolving global landscape. With 25 offices across the world’s leading financial and resource centres in Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and the USA, we operate at the cutting edge of the financial, resources and infrastructure, corporate and new economy markets. We tackle diverse areas of law, including finance, M&A, disputes and competition. In each, we offer advice that’s as commercially astute as it is technically accurate. 

As a firm, everything we do is characterised by a pursuit of insight, understanding and clarity. We share our clients’ ambitions and we cut to the heart of their issues with speed and clarity, whether we’re working locally or globally. 

The culture of the firm (For example, social aspects, sport opportunity and values)

The different cultures, communities and countries within which we operate around the world are immensely varied. The way we actually interact with each other isn’t. The simple fact is: people here like working with each other. We help and challenge each other to develop our thinking and deliver our best work. In every office, you’ll find different perspectives, backgrounds, cultures and personalities to learn from. 

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King & Wood Mallesons
Aug
10

King & Wood Mallesons

Zoom link: https://qut.zoom.us/j/88412678174?pwd=S29PZkhJZEp1Zlp3Rmh3cXlxT3MrZz09

Who are you and what makes you unique?
Recognised as one of the world’s most innovative law firms, King & Wood Mallesons offers a different perspective to commercial thinking and the client experience. With access to a global platform, a team of over 2700 lawyers in 29 locations around the world works with clients to help them understand local challenges, navigate through regional complexity, and to find commercial solutions that deliver a competitive advantage for our clients.


The culture of the firm (For example, social aspects, sport opportunity and values)

As a leading international law firm headquartered in Asia, we help clients to open doors and unlock opportunities as they look to Asian markets to unleash their full potential. Combining an unrivalled depth of expertise and breadth of relationships in our core markets, we are connecting Asia to the world, and the world to Asia.

We take a partnership approach in working with clients, focusing not just on what they want, but how they want it. Always pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved, we are reshaping the legal market and challenging our clients to think differently about what a law firm can be.

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HopgoodGanim
Aug
10

HopgoodGanim

Zoom link: https://qut.zoom.us/j/85005859313?pwd=TWhObW4vQ2psZ2FTTlV0Rmt2MWp0QT09


Who we are and what makes us unique?

More than 40 years ago, HopgoodGanim was founded by two great friends with a focus on commercial litigation and family law. Today, HopgoodGanim is a large and fully integrated national law firm offering solutions to commercial problems across the full spectrum of legal services.  We continue to house one of Australia’s largest and most well regarded family and relationship law practices.  

You may have asked yourself what makes HopgoodGanim different to any other firm? We believe it is the close relationships we have with our clients and each other.  We do our very best work when we know our clients personally and we know their businesses inside and out.  Inside our firm, people genuinely like each other, refer to each other as friends and work collaboratively to achieve the best outcomes possible for our clients. 

The culture of the firm (For example, social aspects, sport opportunity and values)

HopgoodGanim enjoys a reputation as a place where people love to come to work. We describe our culture as ‘The HG Way’ and central to this is a theme of ‘Business Mateship’. Business Mateship was a phrase we coined many years ago to capture the culture of friendship created by our founding partners and to describe how the people of HopgoodGanim, our clients and other stakeholders come together and interact. That is, we believe in treating each other, and our clients, as we would treat our friends. 

We’re looking for graduate lawyers who will thrive in our relationship culture. Your training will see you in front of clients most days of the week. Being able to connect and form a positive and professional relationship with colleagues and clients is really important. While good results at university are highly regarded, the ability to understand commercial problems is equally as important in the people who join our team. Commerciality is something that we train for, but we also look for graduate lawyers who are passionate about learning about an industry or market sector. Hand in hand with our relationship culture is the importance of delivering an exceptional client experience consistently.  Every single member of the HopgoodGanim team has a role to play in what our clients experience when they work with us and our graduate lawyers are no exception to this.

The future of the legal profession is exciting. Our graduate lawyers will shape the future of this firm, the services we deliver, how we deliver them and how we work, so we’re looking for people who are excited by the changes our profession is undergoing and who are ready to be a part of this change process with us.

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Session 2: 5 PM - 7 PM