Senior Associate, Environment, Planning & Communities

Herbert Smith Freehills

Perth, Australia
Land access and approval services
Environmental impact assessments
Native title and first nations engagement
You will play a pivotal role in our team, offering comprehensive project development, compliance, transactional, and strategic advice to international, major Australian, and Government clients across diverse sectors and jurisdictions

Job Summary

  • You will play a pivotal role in our team, offering comprehensive project development, compliance, transactional, and strategic advice to international, major Australian, and Government clients across diverse sectors and jurisdictions.
  • Your role will involve both front-end and contentious work, with direct exposure and support to build your client management and business development skills within a highly collaborative and growing team.
  • We are committed to attracting people from all backgrounds and creating a respectful and inclusive culture where everyone thrives, seeing this as essential to our success, including our ability to innovate and achieve sustained high performance.

Matching Summary

You will play a pivotal role in our team, offering comprehensive project development, compliance, transactional, and strategic advice to international, major Australian, and Government clients across diverse sectors and jurisdictions.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Land access and approval services
  • Environmental impact assessments
  • Native title and First Nations engagement
  • Pollution control and incident response
  • Transactional support for M&A

Nice-to-have

  • Pragmatic and commercially astute solutions
  • Client management and business development skills
  • Innovative mindset and curiosity about AI
  • Human, bold and outstanding team culture

Key Requirements

  • Australian or New Zealand practicing certificate
  • Demonstrated legal experience in land access
  • Demonstrated legal experience in environment and planning
  • Demonstrated legal experience in regulatory approvals
  • Demonstrated legal experience in native title
  • Demonstrated legal experience in indigenous cultural heritage

Work Rights

Not specified

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