MK is a growing commercial law firm with offices are located in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Dandenong – a suburb south-east of Melbourne where the firm was founded 115 years ago.
We specialise in 6 key practice areas covering Commercial, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Private Clients (Family Law and Wills and Estates), Property and Construction and Employment, Safety & Migration.
MK is really proud to offer our lawyers the opportunity to participate in our Macpherson Kelley Business School. A key purpose at Macpherson Kelley is to help people achieve their potential. To facilitate this, our Business School was established in 2015 to be a strategic point of difference providing quality learning and development to staff.
Flexibility is really important to us. Our values define how we work with each other. We don’t take ourselves too seriously. We work hard and still make time to enjoy life outside of work. At Macpherson Kelley, we have a unique work environment where employees have freedom and flexibility to integrate and balance work with their personal lives. We call this program Flex+. This was offered to staff pre-Covid. We do this by offering flexibility for employees to stager their work hours and vary their work location around client and role requirements. We trust you to get the work done.
In January 2016, the Macpherson Kelley Foundation was launched. The role of the foundation is to engage and manage philanthropic activities for the firm and provides financial and other support to communities in need. This includes a volunteer program, community involvement and pro bono work. In 2022, MK were the proud recipients of the silver award for Best Overall Program in the SME category in the 2022 Australian Workplace Giving Awards.
Step 1 - Application
Attach your CV, a Cover Letter is not required.
Step 2 - Video Interviews
You will be asked three questions to complete over video.
Step 3 - Assessment Centres
Half a day to come into our MK offices to complete in person assessments. The first is group led and the second is individual. Dates for each state assessments are available on pre-register.
Step 4 - Final Interviews
Individual Interview with a member of HR and Principal Lawyer.
We are proud to offer a National Law Graduate Program. We hire Graduates in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.
Our law graduate program is 12 months comprised of 4 rotations each lasting 3 months.
We focus on building strong business-minded lawyers, able to work closely with clients and understand their challenges and opportunities and add value to their businesses. So you may be on the floor of a client’s factory, in a car yard or transport depot, in a client’s commercial office in the CBD or front and centre at a mediation.
Our graduates all have access to the unique commercial professional development as part of the Macpherson Kelley Business School including Bootcamps with practical scenarios and case studies.
Our graduates' complete Supervised Workplace Training (SWT) that allows for practical on the job training. This is different from Practical Legal Training (PLT) offered by many firms, as we believe it is critical to get hands-on real-life experience as early as possible in your career.
Lawyer – Intellectual Property & Commercial Law at Macpherson Kelley
Bachelor of Laws (Honours) – Minor in AI, Technology and Innovation at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)