Legal Team Manager
vor 2 Monaten
Avant is Australia's leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 125 years.
Avant now represents 80,000 health practitioners and medical students across every state and territory, delivering market leading products and services to meet their professional, personal and practice needs.
Building on this heritage, our vision is to be the most trusted professional partner in supporting doctors throughout their lives and careers.
As a mutual organisation, owned by members and run purely for their benefit, our members are at the centre of all we do.
As well as providing products and services to our members, we play a broader community role by advocating for improvements in the healthcare system and in quality, safety and professionalism in medicine, through delivering education and research activities.
We are seeking expressions of interest from applicants seeking a career development opportunity or a new challenge.
This is a unique opportunity to work within our Avant Law team (NSW) and lead a Civil Practice Group to develop your leadership capability and management skills.
We seek an applicant with experience in managing a civil medical negligence team in Sydney.
This is a full-time permanent position based out of our Sydney office with hybrid working arrangements. The key responsibilities include: Managing the civil litigation team in accordance with the KPI's, ensuring billing targets are met and high-quality legal services are provided by the civil team;Provision and supervision of lawyers within the civil team and not in the civil team who have some civil files to deliver sustainable, timely and efficient legal services in order to achieve the best possible outcomes for both the membership and the member as well as reduction in cycle times, accurate reserve and reduction in external legal costs;Coordination of resourcing and workflows within the civil team and ensuring the management of claims in accordance with agreed protocols, standards and procedures of Avant Law and professional and ethical standards with documented standards and procedures consistently applied;Supervision, mentoring and development of the civil team (lawyers and paralegals) to enable career development for staff within the Avant Law team;Support the delivery of medico-legal advisory service to Avant members by providing advice and assistance to members;Conducting own civil file load, allocating civil files to the team and supervising the management of civil claims to the Practice Group and ensuring compliance with professional, legal and ethical standards;Advising and supporting the Head of Practice, Legal and as appropriate the Head of Avant Law and General Manager Civil on State legal trends, issues, reforms, significant cases and other developments relevant to the Practice Group.This role will also provide the opportunity to work on some non-civil matters.To be successful in this role you will have: Experience in leadership or strong interest in the development of people leadership skills.Defence medical negligence and insurance law experience ideal.Demonstrated health law knowledge.Proactive in developing relationships and understanding and balancing member, business and team requirements.Strong time management and multi-tasking skills.Why work for Avant Law? You would be working for Australia's largest specialist medico-legal law firm.You are guaranteed a pipeline of work from your instructing client, Avant Insurance, who are co-located.You will get to work on a great variety and breadth of cases but with a focus on medical indemnity claims.You will be working in an open and collaborative environment with access to the top specialist medico-legal solicitors in the country.We prefer to deal with candidates directly.
For further information on this role, please contact Lisa Craddock, Talent Acquisition Business Partner on for a confidential discussion.
Why work at Avant? At Avant, our people are the centre of everything we do for our members.
We offer a range of benefits and opportunities to enable you to make a difference, learn, and grow in your career.
We value our people by offering an inclusive workplace with a diverse range of benefits, flexible working options, career development, and internal mobility opportunities.
Our flexible working arrangements are designed to enable genuine work-life balance.
Your development is our priority and we have a variety of learning and development programs that will support you in your career.
We offer support to our people via Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Health and Wellbeing programs, Tertiary Education Sponsorship and Support.
We have a diverse and connected work environment where your contribution and ideas will be valued and respected and make a real difference to the lives of others.
Please note: Avant Mutual is a vaccinated employer.
Prior to the commencement of your employment by Avant, you are required to be fully vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus or have a medical certificate stating that you cannot receive a Covid-19 vaccination for valid medical reasons.
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