Employment Opportunities
A career with Legal Aid Western Australia gives you an opportunity to play a role in providing the community with access to quality legal services. We offer a range of services aimed at target groups or individuals with particular legal problems. Our vision is "to be recognised as a leader in the delivery of quality legal services to those in need and to assist the community to access justice". To support this vision our aim is to develop a workforce with portable skills that responds to new challenges and which values professionalism. The people in our agency are valued and respected. We encourage and recognise individual and team effort, innovation and creativity in our activities. Our agency is developing a workforce that is professional, skilled and flexible. We value and encourage balanced diversity within our workforce profile. Legal Aid has approximately 300 staff spread throughout the state with offices in the Perth CBD, Midland and Fremantle and the regional locations of Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Christmas Island, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Kununurra and South Hedland. Legal Aid has excellent opportunities for dynamic individuals who thrive in a challenging work environment. Most positions are for lawyers and paralegals but we also employ a full range of administrative personnel and a limited number of Graduates each year through our Graduate Program and Country Lawyers Graduate Program. The majority of employees are located in our Perth office with opportunities to work in areas such as our criminal, family and civil law teams, domestic violence, child support and legal advice and information services sections. Legal Aid offers:
- Flexible, family friendly work practices.
- Flexible employment conditions.
- Attractive salary packaging arrangements.
- Opportunities for development
- Free, confidential counselling service for you and your immediate family
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