Career Opportunities for Consultants

Grow With Us As a Consultant

Australia’s legal sector is undergoing rapid transformation. The traditional law firm model is shifting in response to increased competition, client demand for lower costs, changing lawyer preferences, and efficiencies driven by artificial intelligence. These pressures are leading to lower-leveraged firm structures, a decline in partnership as the primary career goal, and the rise of alternative practice models. Firms are moving away from high-leverage structures where partners supervise large numbers of junior lawyers and towards more streamlined operations with diversified compensation arrangements. As a result, both near-retiring and emerging lawyers are increasingly able to prioritise work–life balance over the long-term pursuit of partnership.

With this in mind, we are developing smarter solutions and building stronger partnerships and alliances. We are adopting a hybrid employment structure that combines employed lawyers with specialist consultants, aiming to offer clients maximum flexibility and access to highly experienced, entrepreneurial lawyers across Australia and New Zealand. We achieve this by leveraging advanced technology for efficiency and by managing administrative duties and trust accounting on behalf of our lawyers, allowing them to focus entirely on their clients and legal work.

Our consultants enjoy full autonomy over their practices while benefiting from the backing of IR Legal and its clear, ambitious vision as a strategic partner, along with a steady flow of work that we actively source for them.

If you’re interested in joining us on this exciting and rewarding journey, please email us for a private and confidential conversation.

Email: consultants@irlegal.lawyer

Ismail Rasheed

Director and Principal Solicitor

IR Legal, Australia and New Zealand

Current Job Opportunities

IR Legal Australia (Nationwide)

Consulting Principals & Solicitors – Multiple Practice Areas - Any Location

The greatest threat to law firms isn’t AI, but the belief that everything can stay the same.

The traditional law firm model demanding billable hours, fixed salaries, and inflexible structures no longer serves many modern lawyers. We’re already experiencing new realities, and we are adopting new strategies. We are driving smarter solutions, stronger partnerships and alliances, and a greater impact.

We are inviting experienced lawyers across a range of practice areas to join our national and international practices as Consulting Principals and Consulting Solicitors.

As a consultant, you will:

✔️ Enjoy flexibility — choose when, where, and how much you work

✔️ Retain a significant share of your billings

✔️ Benefit from comprehensive back-end support — marketing, administration, trust account management, insurance, regulatory compliance, and IT

✔️ Work on substantial and meaningful matters

✔️ Retain your autonomy while benefiting from the support of our dedicated teams.

✔️ Experience no red tape or micromanagement — just a focus on excellence

✔️ Receive work generated for you

✔️ Operate without billable-hour targets

If you are a Principal, you will enjoy full autonomy over your practice without any restriction while benefiting from the backing of IR Legal and its clear, ambitious vision as a strategic partner, along with a steady flow of work that we actively source for you.

If you hold an unrestricted practising certificate (you don’t have to be a Principal) and want more flexibility, control, and meaningful financial return, we’d love to speak with you.

✉️ Email: consultants@irlegal.lawyer

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