William Roberts Lawyers is a dynamic, innovative and Award-winning law firm with a focus on dispute resolution and litigation. William Roberts Lawyers has offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Singapore.
For over 20 years, our people have been the driving force of the Firm’s success. By developing deep and strong relationships with and between our people, we have been able to grow our business by providing an environment where they can thrive and advance their career.
Why Join us?
We’ll provide you with the opportunity to work
- in tightly-knit teams committed to excellence and be mentored by commercial litigation experts who will give you the opportunity to develop and enhance your technical legal, commercial and business leadership skills whilst working with blue chip clients;
- on strategic, complex, and high-profile cases that will challenge, develop and build your reputation and provide a strong foundation to advance your career through promotion, and
- with a relative high degree of autonomy, so that you get exposure to managing your own files with appropriate on-the-job supervision and guidance.
Our Culture
William Roberts Lawyers’ people strategy continues to focus on creating a vibrant firm culture that allows our people to thrive and flourish by promoting the growth and career advancement of talent including initiatives supporting recognition and reward; diversity and inclusion; professional development, and a broad range family-friendly policies.
What makes WR different?
Autonomy
Lawyers have autonomy while running their matters and this level of client interaction is definitely a game changer for new and experienced lawyers.
We trust our entire team, including our junior lawyers which enables them to have carriage of their own matters, with supervision from their mentors and their principal. Direct client interaction is not restricted to senior lawyers. Our flat management team operate on an open-door policy making the senior team accessible and approachable. As part of ongoing professional development, team member are provided with regular feedback from their mentors and are encouraged to attend various seminars/workshops to upskill.
Performance, Recognition and Career Advancement
Our team is motivated, innovative, talented and committed to excellence. The firm invests heavily in the development of its team member, recognises performance and has a strong track record of recognising and then promoting team member on merit without being constrained by post qualification years of experience. If your performance meets the competencies and selection criteria of career milestones, you will be promoted.
Diversity and Inclusion
Our dynamic and high performing team of people come from a broad variety of backgrounds bringing a diverse range of experiences and perspectives to the workplace that are applied to challenges faced by our clients. We always strive to ensure an inclusive environment and proactively create opportunities to highlight social, cultural and ethnic celebrations that allow team member to feel valued and can thrive whilst being their authentic self.
