An award winning company
Thanks to our ground-breaking parental leave policy, in 2010, Shine Lawyers won The National Minister's Award for Outstanding Equal Employment Opportunity Initiative/Result for the Advancement of Women at EOWA’s Business Achievement Awards
Legal careers with lifestyle
Are you an ambitious professional that would like to pursue a career in a leading firm that creates meaningful opportunities for its people and believes in truly making a difference?
A career at Shine Lawyers can put you on the fast track in one of the Australia’s fastest growing national firms that places the talent of their people at the core of their success.
Valuing performance and celebrating achievement
We know that top talent is valuable. We have a strong tradition for rewarding great performance and offering a flexible and equal opportunity working environment including:
- The opportunity for high performers to attend international legal conferences
- Firm bonus structure
- Two yearly celebrations – mid-year and Christmas
- Access to an award winning Parental Leave Policy
In 2010, Shine Lawyers won The National Minister's Award for Outstanding Equal Employment Opportunity Initiative/Result for the Advancement of Women at EOWA’s Business Achievement Awards, thanks to our ground-breaking parental leave policy.
The ‘X Factor’ that makes good companies great
- With a tradition of developing and retaining top talent by promoting from within, long-term “Shiners” refer to an “X” factor which sets Shine apart from traditional law firms.
- Two founders with 50 years of collective experience in the business who have taken an innovative, people focused and business savvy approach to building a commercially successful law firm which is also an inspiring place to work.
- Developing future leaders by building a world class in-house residential training facility to give them the tools and resources to advance with confidence.
- High caliber leaders within the business who team talent with sound commercial sense and a true belief in the company vision.
A star on the rise
Shine is now the third largest plaintiff law firm in Australia and the FMRC 2008 law firm benchmarking report recently acknowledged Shine Lawyers as one of the nation’s highest performing law firms.
Shine Lawyers is the largest provider of plaintiff litigation services in the Queensland legal market and has leveraged its respected and recognizable brand to establish a growing presence in Victoria and Western Australia.
Shine Lawyers has a strategy of building a national law firm with grass roots presence. Shine’s regional strategy of being close to the communities it serves has been well received by clients and staff alike.
Your career, many paths at Shine
Training and professional development is taken very seriously at Shine Lawyers and we have committed the time and resources to ensure our employees receive industry leading training, for a range of different career paths whether it be as a legal support professional, law clerk, Branch Manager, a specialist litigation lawyer or even part of our in-house counsel, IT, Marketing, HR & Finance teams. For example, we provide:
- Training courses at our in-house residential training facility – The Shine Centre of Learning
- A comprehensive induction for all new employees
- CPD training
- Specialist legal training
- Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits training (under licence)
- Management training and personal development
- Study leave