Lawyer/Associate - Responsible Business & ESG

The role

Corrs Chambers Westgarth is seeking a Lawyer/Associate with 2-4 years of PQE to join their Responsible Business & ESG practice in Melbourne. This role focuses on business and human rights, ESG governance, and sustainability law, offering exposure to complex advisory and contentious matters.

What you'll do

• Work across a broad range of business and human rights and ESG matters for leading Australian and international clients
• Gain exposure to complex advisory, compliance and contentious work
• Develop expertise across business and human rights, ESG governance and contentious ESG matters
• Work on complex, cross-border and multi-jurisdictional matters
• Gain meaningful client exposure
• Develop strong professional relationships
• Collaborate with specialists across the firm on multi-disciplinary mandates
• Support thought leadership
• Contribute to the public discourse on human rights, ESG and sustainability
• Benefit from exceptional mentoring
• Benefit from structured professional development
• Deliver client mandates across a range of ESG issues
• Support the growth and development of client relationships and the practice group
• Develop, review and evaluate human rights governance and compliance frameworks
• Advise on the application of international human rights standards for business
• Advise on legal risk and compliance issues in voluntary and mandatory reporting
• Advise on ESG issues in corporate transactions
• Advise on greenwashing risks
• Act in ESG-related litigation
• Undertake complex human rights/supply chain investigations

What we're looking for

Benefits