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Senior Lawyer: Disease

Newcastle, New South Wales🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-17 → 2026-09-27

Core

Manage complex litigation and claims for occupational diseases, asbestos, and casualty matters, including assessing liability, causation, and quantum.

Role type

Senior Associate lawyer (occupational disease and casualty litigation)

Builds

Legal advice, pleadings, witness evidence, and settlements for insurers and corporate clients

Domain

Law (Litigation, Personal Injury, Insurance, Public Liability)

Deliverable

client delivery

Required skills

Litigation management, liability assessment, causation analysis, quantum assessment, drafting pleadings, instructing counsel and experts, negotiation, mediation

Preferred skills

Disease litigation background, public liability claims experience, specialist expertise in complex causality

Technologies

Legal research databases, case management systems

Responsibilities

Manage a varied caseload of litigation and occupational disease claims; Handle Employers' Liability and Public Liability matters; Assess liability, causation, and quantum; Draft pleadings and legal advice; Negotiate settlements and participate in mediations

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