Recruitment

Note: We are not presently recruiting. Please check for updates.

We have excellent career opportunities for talented and motivated lawyers, including new graduates. Bruce Maclean Legal offers a unique blend of major international client work in complex and challenging transactions, along with the benefits of general business advisory and commercial work for New Zealand based businesses.

The work environment is flexible, with good client contact, and lawyers have the flexibility to develop a specialist client-base and practice areas, and enjoy a high degree of autonomy. In addition to having good inter-personal skills, the attributes which Bruce Maclean Legal values, and which applicants should strive towards, are:

• Analytical Thinking: Objective, logical and orderly analysis of legal problems, including maintaining a broad overview without losing attention to detail or practical constraints and realities.
  Commercial Awareness: Understanding commercial and business motivators (including corporate and individual behavioural tendencies) and regulatory, political and market-place dynamics.
• Legal Knowledge: A robust understanding of general legal principles (both substantively and in the operation of the legal system) and the ability to apply them in practical situations.
• Client-Focus: A strong focus on understanding and identifying with clients' key commercial objectives, their individual characteristics and commercial sensitivities, and remaining alert to client interests, risks and new developments.
• Effective communication: Giving clear advice to clients which they understand and can act on, and developing a good rapport clients and contacts of the firm.
• Business development: Commitment to developing the firm's practice though maintaining and developing client and business contacts, and continual improvement of our legal resources, products and services.
• Adaptability: The ability to get to grips with new areas of law, and deal with new types of client and legal issues, including where information is limited or foreign law or non-law issues are involved.

If you are seeking a legal position in an Auckland corporate practice we would be delighted to hear from you.