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Seeking: Litigation Lawyer (Associate/Consultant)

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We are seeking a Litigation Lawyer (Associate/Consultant), full time.

The focus of this role will be to deliver strata and building defects / maintenance litigation services, and to assist the Legal Practitioner Director to deliver strategic solutions in strata law, particularly within the broad practice areas of management rights, body corporate and property development.

The firm’s expanding client base includes strata property developers, bodies corporate and an ASX listed company.

Stratum Legal Pty Ltd delivers strategic solutions in strata law, particularly within the broad practice areas of management rights, body corporate and property development.

The firm’s offices are at sunny Mooloolaba – the perfect place for your own ‘sea change’. We offer a flexible family friendly environment in recognition that our firm’s greatest assets are its employees.

Qualifications & Experience  

Aside from your 3 years post admission experience, you will need to be both pragmatic and reliable.

Essential qualifications/experience

  • Bachelor of Law
  • 3+ years post qualification experience
  • Litigation experience

Desirable qualifications/experience

  • Building defects litigation experience
  • Post Graduate Degree or specialist accreditation
  • Strata litigation experience

Salary is commensurate with experience and performance. While we are located on the Sunshine Coast our client base extends from Sydney to Port Douglas. Accordingly you can expect a Brisbane salary, while enjoying the Sunshine Coast lifestyle.

For a confidential discussion regarding this role, please contact:

Michael Kleinschmidt on 0408 676 312.

To apply for this position, please email your curriculum vitae  (preferably as PDF doc) to:

Michael Kleinschmidt: info@stratumlegal.com.au

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Strata Tip 63 – Records – Records held other than by the body corporate manager

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Email is a curse!  Emails between committee members, that never reach the body corporate manager, have been held by Adjudicators to be body corporate records.  Ignorance of their creation is no excuse for the body corporate failing to capture them, or to hand them over on a search.  Conducting discussions by telephone or, better still, within a committee meeting, helps to minimise the bulk of body corporate records produced.

Strata Tip 63 – Concept and design – Minimise the dangers of mixed use

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Separate different uses physically, and if possible legally.  In community title schemes opposites do not attract.  The archetypal dispute ridden complex is the one that contains residences plus a restaurant and bar.  Mixed use executed correctly can provide significant advantages both in terms of the marketing and sale of your product and the lived experience of the buyers.  Physical separation is great, (for example noise shielding) but so is legal separation.  Consider for example, a BMS or layered arrangement to legally separate your commercial uses from your residential uses.

Strata Tip 63 – Buying – Verification of financial records

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Make sure your accountant sights all of the Form 6’s.  When conducting the verification report process, the buyer’s accountant may attend on site to extract relevant financial information from the seller’s records.  That is an ideal time for the accountant to also sight each one of the POA Form 6’s (letting appointments), to check that they are the correct version, properly signed and that there are no significant flaws in them. Ask your verifying accountant to do this, as part of their verification report.