We aim to attract and retain the best people.

Mallesons stands apart from its competitors in what it offers to its people because it provides:

• Exciting and satisfying work: Challenging, complex work that is focused on core clients.
• Career Opportunities: Our working environment is a true meritocracy where everyone is given the opportunity to reach their full potential.
• Financial Rewards: Rewarding people with top-of-the-market remuneration, complemented with variable incentives based upon personal choice.
• Flexible Working Environment: First class support and training in a working environment which is flexible and friendly, enabling our lawyers and other staff to achieve their goals.

Exciting and Satisfying Work

Mallesons is rated by independent surveys as Australia’s premier law firm and a leader in the region. Its blue chip client base generates complex and premium work offering exciting opportunities involving high profile matters and projects at the forefront of legal developments.

The firm's strong team culture and the work undertaken by the firm’s people for its wide ranging client base are the single most important factors in making it the employer of choice for young lawyers.

Continuous Learning

The firm provides its lawyers with hands-on experience supported by personal guidance of partners and formal training.

We provide a continuous learning environment supported by a strong commitment to both formal and informal education, and development. Last year we ran over 900 courses.

Career Development

Mallesons places significant importance on career development. The firm provides assistance for external study and actively encourages secondments to clients and overseas firms.

Last year 109 of our lawyers completed secondments to clients and 12% made use of our leave of absence and external career development policies to work with overseas law firms or clients, or undertake post-graduate education.

Our ongoing review system enables us to adhere to a policy of promoting our people based on merit. In the last two years there have been 144 lawyers promoted to senior associate and 24 promoted to partnership.

Work/Life Balance

Mallesons has been awarded the 2008 EOWA Employer of Choice for Women citation for the second year running. EOWA is the Federal Government’s Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency, which promotes the advancement of women among employers across Australia. Mallesons was among a number of large law firms also granted the citation.

The citation follows Mallesons winning the 2007 EOWA Business Achievement Award for Leading organisation for the advancement of women (500+ employees) in November of last year. Mallesons was the first law firm to win this award.