Careers
Work alongside our exceptional team on a wide range of challenging and exciting work. Our team enjoy building deep and trusted relationships with our clients and working collaboratively to support one another.
Why Join Us
Join a workplace with an authentically human approach to legal practice. Hazelbrook’s founding principles were to build a law practice where people truly enjoyed the company of their colleagues, where the team supports one another to deliver exceptional results for their clients and where the work is interesting and rewarding.
There’s no secret to how we attract and maintain exceptional people: be kind and empathetic; foster a collaborative and supportive culture; provide work that is interesting and challenging and reward hard work. Hazelbrook offers you a brilliant environment to practice a diverse range of corporate law and develop your legal skills for a stellar future career.
Genuine Benefits
At Hazelbrook we have a genuine focus on employee training, development and wellbeing.
Our Health and Wellbeing Program includes:
- In-house mindfulness sessions;
- Whole-firm overseas offsites (our last one was in Queenstown New Zealand);
- Regular paid social events including dinners, lunches and drinks and cultural trips outside the office during work hours; and
- Discounted hotel and gym memberships.
We provide training and development benefits including:
- Paid study leave;
- Formal mentoring;
- Whole office strategy sessions; and
- Hazelbrook Career Acceleration program – bespoke training and personalised career planning with our Head of People & Wellbeing.
Be rewarded for your hard work and initiative with our innovative and fully inclusive bonus and reward scheme.
Hazelbrook Legal’s Career Acceleration Program
At Hazelbrook, we understand how important it is to be supported in your career development. As a firm genuinely committed to the wellbeing and development of its people, Hazelbrook Legal have established a bespoke and highly personalised career acceleration program (CAP) for legal professionals.
Our CAP encompasses a range of tools and resources, as well as being overseen and managed by our Head of People & Wellbeing. As a globally experienced top-tier and magic circle legal HR Professional, our Head of People & Wellbeing is passionate about working with lawyers and professionals at all levels to support them to achieve their career goals.
This Program provides you with:
- A dedicated and highly experienced career professional motivated to see you develop;
- A focus on strengthening essential soft skills that you need in order to reach the top of the profession;
- One-on-one coaching to help you achieve your individual career aspirations;
- Opportunity to gain fresh perspectives on the behind-the-scenes aspects of how to succeed in the industry, including culture and law firm operations;
- Mentoring by top lawyers and legal professionals in the industry; and
- A robust framework to provide transparency on pathways within the firm.
Clerkship Program
Our programs allow you to experience the full breadth of Corporate Law work from Day one.
At Hazelbrook we offer you a truly supportive working environment, where you will have direct client contact from the get-go, the opportunity to build deep relationships and networks, greater responsibility and genuine progression.
Clerkship Program
Ready to put theory into practice?
A clerk at Hazelbrook will experience what it’s like to work within a fast-paced corporate team where you will experience a broad range of practice areas including: corporate contracting; IP and data privacy; commercial litigation; funds (VC and PE), financial services and regulatory; and mergers and acquisitions.
In our program you will:
- Be part of a team working on complex corporate matters working with change makers of industry.
- Have fun in a supportive high-performance environment.
- Do real work assisting the team on a variety of corporate matters.
- Be empowered with a range of initiatives to position you for success.
- Learn the importance of commerciality and other soft skills alongside legal skills.
- Be mentored by top-tier lawyers who are friendly, smart and eager to see young lawyers excel.
- Experience what it’s really like to work in a market leading law firm.
High performing clerks may have the opportunity to progress to a graduate position with Hazelbrook Legal.
This program is most suitable for students in their penultimate year of law. However, we are willing to consider those in their final year.
Applications for our 2025 Clerkship Program will open on
11 June 2025 and close on Sunday 6 July 2025.
Please apply by sending your cover letter, CV and academic transcript to Simone at careers@hazelbrooklegal.com
Our 2025 Clerkship program will run from
24 November 2025 until 30 January 2026.
Opportunities
Graduates & Junior Lawyers
Graduates & Junior Lawyers
Thank you for your interest in Hazelbrook Legal.
We are not actively recruiting for legal practitioners at the moment, but please follow us on LinkedIn for recruitment updates.
If you would like to apply to our Clerkship Program, please see full program details and dates available on the main Careers page.
Legal Support Professionals
Legal Support Professionals
Position: Legal PA
Role: Full Time
Location: Sydney or Canberra
Thinking about your next move? Join Hazelbrook where you can directly support two highly regarded partners in an exciting and growing business, amongst a genuinely welcoming and supportive team.
Hazelbrook’s founding principles were to build a law practice where people truly enjoyed the company of their colleagues, where the team supports one another to deliver exceptional results for their clients and where the work is interesting and rewarding.
We are seeking a Legal PA to support our growing leadership team, as well as provide wider support to the whole team. This is an exciting time to be joining Hazelbrook and your work will be varied and interesting given the high calibre work undertaken, the genuinely good people that make up our team and the growing nature of the business.
Desired Skills and Expertise
We are looking for individuals who are proactive, good at problem-solving, value discretion and who can be trusted to deliver high quality work. This role will suit individuals who have excellent attention to detail, who like to take responsibility for their output and who enjoy working in a fast-paced environment.
Partners / Seniors
- Full responsibility for inbox management, including all filing.
- Proactive handling of correspondence directed to Partners (coordinate further actions, draft replies etc).
- Have responsibility for calendar and diary management, including coordinating meetings, making travel arrangements, booking venues and detailed travel itineraries.
- Proof reading emails, drafting responses and other relevant correspondence and documentation.
- Filenote management
- Assist with receipts, expenses
Matter Management
- Document and contract production, formatting, reviewing and finalising (including document protection).
- Assist with general administrative duties for the wider team, document production, formatting, review and finalising.
- Assist with other functions essential to the efficient running of matters.
- Matter life cycle – assist Partners as required, and working closely with support team to meet deliverables.
Business Development
- Prepare proposals, reviewing documents and drafting responses to clients.
- Coordinate and assist with BD activities
- Assist with award submissions
- Research for BD activities (prepare briefing notes prior to new client meetings)
- Assist to maintain BD trackers
Learning and Development
- Assist seniors to meet professional obligations, update forms, book courses etc.
Billing
- Assist Partners with billing management.
- Work closely with the wider support team to manage team deliverables.
Office administration assistance including:
- Office management tasks.
- Assist practice manager where required.
Company Description
Hazelbrook Legal is an exciting and innovative firm, offering a truly supportive working environment.
We are proud to offer our staff unrivalled career development opportunities and provide them with a chance to work with Australia's most exciting and innovative companies and leaders.
We believe actions speak louder than words, and have always maintained a gender balanced, culturally diverse workforce including at our most senior levels.
Join us and be rewarded for your hard work and initiative with an innovative and fully inclusive bonus and reward scheme.
How to Apply
Please feel free to reach out with any questions. If you are ready to apply, please send a cover letter, transcript and CV addressed to Simone Gigg at careers@hazelbrooklegal.com
Salary will be commensurate with experience.
Please note this is a full-time role and is not suitable for students - we are looking for a dedicated legal professional.
Unfortunately due to the volume of applications received, only successful applicants will be contacted.
Applications will close as soon as a suitable applicant is found.
Legal Practitioners
Legal Practitioners
Thank you for your interest in Hazelbrook Legal.
We are not actively recruiting for legal practitioners at the moment, but please follow us on LinkedIn for recruitment updates.
Graduates & Junior Lawyers
Graduates & Junior Lawyers
Thank you for your interest in Hazelbrook Legal.
We are not actively recruiting for legal practitioners at the moment, but please follow us on LinkedIn for recruitment updates.
If you would like to apply to our Clerkship Program, please see full program details and dates available on the main Careers page.
Legal Support Professionals
Legal Support Professionals
Position: Legal PA
Role: Full Time
Location: Sydney or Canberra
Thinking about your next move? Join Hazelbrook where you can directly support two highly regarded partners in an exciting and growing business, amongst a genuinely welcoming and supportive team.
Hazelbrook’s founding principles were to build a law practice where people truly enjoyed the company of their colleagues, where the team supports one another to deliver exceptional results for their clients and where the work is interesting and rewarding.
We are seeking a Legal PA to support our growing leadership team, as well as provide wider support to the whole team. This is an exciting time to be joining Hazelbrook and your work will be varied and interesting given the high calibre work undertaken, the genuinely good people that make up our team and the growing nature of the business.
Desired Skills and Expertise
We are looking for individuals who are proactive, good at problem-solving, value discretion and who can be trusted to deliver high quality work. This role will suit individuals who have excellent attention to detail, who like to take responsibility for their output and who enjoy working in a fast-paced environment.
Partners / Seniors
- Full responsibility for inbox management, including all filing.
- Proactive handling of correspondence directed to Partners (coordinate further actions, draft replies etc).
- Have responsibility for calendar and diary management, including coordinating meetings, making travel arrangements, booking venues and detailed travel itineraries.
- Proof reading emails, drafting responses and other relevant correspondence and documentation.
- Filenote management
- Assist with receipts, expenses
Matter Management
- Document and contract production, formatting, reviewing and finalising (including document protection).
- Assist with general administrative duties for the wider team, document production, formatting, review and finalising.
- Assist with other functions essential to the efficient running of matters.
- Matter life cycle – assist Partners as required, and working closely with support team to meet deliverables.
Business Development
- Prepare proposals, reviewing documents and drafting responses to clients.
- Coordinate and assist with BD activities
- Assist with award submissions
- Research for BD activities (prepare briefing notes prior to new client meetings)
- Assist to maintain BD trackers
Learning and Development
- Assist seniors to meet professional obligations, update forms, book courses etc.
Billing
- Assist Partners with billing management.
- Work closely with the wider support team to manage team deliverables.
Office administration assistance including:
- Office management tasks.
- Assist practice manager where required.
Company Description
Hazelbrook Legal is an exciting and innovative firm, offering a truly supportive working environment.
We are proud to offer our staff unrivalled career development opportunities and provide them with a chance to work with Australia's most exciting and innovative companies and leaders.
We believe actions speak louder than words, and have always maintained a gender balanced, culturally diverse workforce including at our most senior levels.
Join us and be rewarded for your hard work and initiative with an innovative and fully inclusive bonus and reward scheme.
How to Apply
Please feel free to reach out with any questions. If you are ready to apply, please send a cover letter, transcript and CV addressed to Simone Gigg at careers@hazelbrooklegal.com
Salary will be commensurate with experience.
Please note this is a full-time role and is not suitable for students - we are looking for a dedicated legal professional.
Unfortunately due to the volume of applications received, only successful applicants will be contacted.
Applications will close as soon as a suitable applicant is found.
Legal Practitioners
Legal Practitioners
Thank you for your interest in Hazelbrook Legal.
We are not actively recruiting for legal practitioners at the moment, but please follow us on LinkedIn for recruitment updates.