Family Lawyer

About LEAP

LEAP is the leading provider of Legal Practice Management Solutions in the world and is part of ATI – one of the largest international LegalTech companies. For more than 30 years, our curiosity and commitment to continual improvement has kept us reimagining productivity tools for lawyers and their staff to support our guiding purpose, to ‘Help lawyers who help people’. The market-leading software we develop, and support is used by more than 71,000 lawyers and their staff in small and medium-sized law firms.

Working alongside our international team of passionate high achievers, you’ll join a fast-growing technology business where things seldom stay the same for long. With more than 1000 smart, caring and ambitious ‘LEAPsters’ working together across Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Poland and New Zealand, you’ll find yourself in good company here.

Meet the Family Law team

Family Law is a division of LEAP Legal Software which specialises in software solutions for our Family Law vertical. This is a one-of-a-kind team paving the way for a new structure in LEAP which focuses on tailored products for specific verticals of law. This team includes experienced legal professionals, developers, designers, and client-focused operational experts. We have in-house Australian Family Lawyers who are the experts in guiding the direction that our products take, along with a mature client feedback function.

What you'll do

As a Family Lawyer, you'll work closely with a Senior Software Engineer and bring your expertise in family law to understand our clients, to focus on the needs of family law firms, and their legal software.

You'll help drive the direction of a key family law product within the family law team to take full ownership of the product backlog and roadmap, ensuring everything we build meets the needs of our users, customers and internal teams. The work you do will help define and deliver impactful features that contribute to our overarching mission to “help lawyers who help people”. The products you contribute to will see your colleagues in family law soar and put them ahead of every other lawyer out there.

To make this happen, you will:

• Work with internal teams to obtain an in-depth understanding of LEAP Family Law products and the documentation requirements.
• Creating and editing online knowledge articles for a product.
• Producing Release Notes for Product Releases.
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of the needs of family law practitioners to provide ongoing feedback to help drive the development of a key product in the family law vertical.
• Write legal content to be used for the product.
• Test the product and provide clear feedback and direction.
• Conducting ongoing QA testing as needed.
• Ensure clients use LEAP Family Law in the best possible way.

What you'll bring

• 3+ years of experience as a qualified Family Lawyer.
• An interest in technologies and their application within the legal sector. A technical background, or good understanding of tech and AI is extremely beneficial.
• Excellent legal drafting skills.
• Strong presentation skills – you can effectively present LEAP features to a group of people and have the ability to read the room.

You are the type of person who

• Is professional and approachable, with high impact communication – you can clearly and succinctly convey information and ideas to individuals and groups in a variety of situations; communicating in a focused and compelling way that drives others’ thoughts and actions.
• Is a team player who understands that diverse opinions make a team and the benefit of achieving goals and decisions together.
• Is curious - you're not afraid to ask questions and explore.

LEAP is an inclusive, people-first company committed to breaking down institutional barriers that keep people from reaching their potential. If you meet some, but not all the requirements above, we encourage you to still submit your application.

Why join LEAP?

• Your work matters. Helping lawyers help people sits at the heart of everything we do. We solve real world problems that improve and support local, everyday law firms. So they can do their best work for the people in the communities they serve.
• Make an impact. You won’t be another ‘cog in the wheel’ here. We give full trust and autonomy for you to be heard, to work on big & complex projects – and to make a real difference.
• Work with a group of authentic, passionate people who love what they do.
• Flexible and hybrid working. We'd like to find this person in Sydney, but we want you to work in a way that suits you and we're open to flexible arrangements that support you.
• Grow your career with us. Our founder Christian Beck has been building legal tech businesses for over 30 years. There are opportunities galore to expand your career based on where your interests lie. We're not afraid to pivot based on market conditions - you will always have the opportunity to stay ahead of the curve and do your best work here.
• Have fun with us. Celebrations. Socials. Sports teams. Access to sailing and yacht events.
• We value your well-being - enjoy an additional paid wellbeing day every year, free gym membership, corporate dental plan and weekly massages in the office.
• Work in a new, beautiful office space – with a catered lunch and breakfast every week, fully stocked kitchen and an on-site barista.
• Access to LEAP Home - a program unique to LEAP to support you in buying your primary residence.