Principal Lawyer

About the Role

Join Crown Law in Brisbane for a professionally enriching career that combines challenging legal work with a supportive lifestyle-friendly environment. The organisation operates through five legal branches and 15 teams, offering a wide variety of legal work and strong opportunities to grow.

This position comes with flexible working arrangements, competitive pay, and generous superannuation. Depending on operational needs, options may include part-time work, flexible hours, telecommuting, a range of leave entitlements, recognition initiatives, and access to employee assistance support.

Crown Law places strong emphasis on staff growth and capability building, with programs designed to help employees develop both personally and professionally. The organisation’s core values are Integrity, Excellence, Respect, and Responsibility.

Key Competencies

The role is aligned to the Legal Professional Competency Framework for this level and requires capability across litigation, advisory, drafting, statutory interpretation, legal research, client engagement, and practice management.

Litigation

• Apply strong advocacy and persuasion skills to prepare and deliver submissions in complex legal proceedings.
• Support others by advising on procedural requirements for managing complex disputes.
• Offer guidance on using alternative dispute resolution strategically and controlling litigation costs.
• Promote high standards in dispute resolution and cost efficiency.

Legal Advice

• Deliver guidance on complex legal matters that demand deep subject knowledge, sound judgement, and the ability to set priorities under broad direction.
• Contribute to the design and improvement of legal risk management systems and practices.
• Coach other lawyers to strengthen advisory skills.

Legal Drafting

• Prepare high-level drafting for matters that are particularly sensitive or legally complex.
• Help manage substantial legal and commercial risk through careful drafting, operating within broad direction from senior leadership.
• Assist others with drafting strategy and preparation of documents.

Statutory Interpretation

• Address difficult interpretation questions involving multiple laws or conflicting provisions.
• Use extrinsic material and advanced legal knowledge to resolve ambiguity in disputed matters.
• Provide clear and authoritative answers to organisational statutory interpretation issues.

Legal Research

• Lead research on complex, specialised, or sensitive issues spanning multiple areas of law.
• Support the use of emerging technologies to improve research efficiency.
• Ensure research outputs are aligned with organisational goals and priorities.

Client Relationships

• Build enduring strategic relationships with clients.
• Embed systems that support strong client satisfaction across the team.
• Oversee client communication across multiple matters or workgroups.

Practice Management

• Demonstrate sound practice management by ensuring files, billing, documents, and precedents are accurate, compliant, and efficient.
• Implement and monitor assurance processes, delegations, and risk controls to maintain service quality and compliance.
• Model ethical conduct and ensure conflicts of interest are identified and managed correctly.
• Support junior lawyers and administrative staff in governance, risk management, and client-focused service delivery.
• Identify recurring inefficiencies in practice processes and recommend improvements to senior leaders.

Additional Information

Applications will remain active for 12 months. Job ad reference: QLD/691713/26. Closing date: Thursday, 25 June 2026. Occupational group: Justice & Legal.