Senior Associate - Family Law
Company: Hooker & Heijden
Role summary
Senior Associate - Family Law is a full-time role at Hooker & Heijden in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (on-site). Posted 2026-08-29. Experience level: 5-10.
- Job title
- Senior Associate - Family Law
- Company
- Hooker & Heijden
- Location
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Work arrangement
- on-site
- Employment type
- full-time
- Category
- Software Engineering
- Experience level
- 5-10
- Date posted
- 2026-08-29
Hooker & Heijden is looking for a skilled Senior Associate to join their family law team. This is a full-time opportunity offering a great chance to advance your career in a supportive environment.
Job description
Senior Associate — Family Law & Commercial
5+ Years PQE | Sydney CBD, NSW
ABOUT OUR CLIENT
Our client is a well-established, full-service Sydney law firm with a strong reputation built over more than three decades. Operating from premium CBD offices, the firm acts for individuals, businesses and industry leaders across a broad range of practice areas, and has built a genuinely collegial culture around technical excellence and client care.
THE OPPORTUNITY
Our client is seeking an experienced Family Lawyer to join at Senior Associate level within a well-regarded Family Law practice that regularly handles complex, high-net-worth matters. A distinguishing feature of this practice is its close connection to the firm's commercial team: many family law matters involve a business or corporate structure, and navigating the division of matrimonial assets without damaging the value of the underlying business is a regular and interesting feature of the work.
This is a genuine hybrid role. While your primary focus will be Family Law, you will also spend a meaningful portion of your time - starting at around 25% and potentially more, depending on workflow - working on General Commercial matters, predominantly transactional and advisory in nature, with some exposure to commercial litigation.
KEY DETAILS
Practice split: approximately 75% Family Law / 25% General Commercial (may vary with demand)
Commercial work: mainly transactional and advisory, with some litigation
Reporting lines: to the firm's joint CEOs, with commercial matters also reporting via a senior associate in the Commercial team; overall supervision of the Family Law practice is provided by the practice head
Caseload: includes high-net-worth matters
Billable expectation: in the order of 7 hours per day (can include business development activities such as writing articles)
Remuneration: competitive, benchmarked to market for the successful candidate's level of experience
ABOUT YOU
Minimum 5 years' post-qualification experience in Family Law (NSW)
Comfortable working at the intersection of family and commercial law, including matters involving business assets and structures
Strong technical and drafting skills, with sound commercial judgement
Confident managing high-net-worth and sometimes complex matters
A collaborative team player, willing to contribute to the firm's