Designed to attract the best and brightest, our graduate program is a challenging and rewarding way to begin your career with us.
To help you find your passion in the law, we offer a structured program with rotations in many of our practice groups. Over 12 months, graduates in our Canberra office will complete two rotations, while graduates in our Melbourne and Sydney offices complete a total of three. You'll work with reasonable autonomy on high quality, complex matters and have contact with clients. When you’re not working from the office, you’ll be attending external meetings and court appearances.
As a graduate, you'll be assigned a senior lawyer during each rotation who will act as a mentor and assist with your workflow. A junior lawyer will also be assigned as your buddy to give you guidance and support. A dedicated member from our People & Culture team will also be there to guide you through the process. In addition to completing Practical Legal Training through the College of Law, we'll provide you with specialised training for all our practice areas, as well as time management and communication skills to help you excel in an office environment.
Keep scrolling to learn about our practice rotations.
Our rotations will help you discover your passion in the law. Scroll through our practice areas to discover what we can offer you.
Our Commercial team has an excellent track record in all areas of corporate and commercial law. With lawyers working in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, technology media and telecommunications, financial services and many more, this rotation will give you an understanding of how transactions and commercial arrangements ensure positive commercial outcomes.
Our Commercial Disputes team advises clients on strategies available to them if they are involved in a dispute. This rotation will give you a first-hand understanding of litigation and alternative dispute resolution processes.
Our Construction team advises on building and infrastructure issues. This rotation will give you an understanding of project procurement, project documentation, contract administration, dispute resolution, asset and facilities management, and building industry regulation.
The workplace is governed by a wide range of laws and regulations. Our Employment, Safety and People team advises our clients on all aspects of employment law.
Our Property and Development teams advise on some of the country's most significant commercial, industrial and residential transactions. This rotation will give you an understanding of how we set strategies to counter real and potential risks and close deals quickly and efficiently.
We advise local, state and Commonwealth departments and agencies on administrative and public law issues. This rotation will give you a deep understanding of how we advise our government clients with their portfolio responsibilities and day-to-day operational requirements.
Graduate Lawyer Claire says Maddocks is a supportive and innovative place to be. Discover what else she thinks about life at Maddocks.
We look for talented and ambitious students to join our clerkship programs in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney. This program is the main starting point for students seeking graduate positions.
Our clerkship program is a great way to explore a career at Maddocks and experience working in a corporate law firm. We’re not looking for a specific stereotype. We’re looking for students with strengths and qualities that are compatible with our core values. To help us achieve this we use a blind application process when reviewing candidates. Once you get to Maddocks, we’ll provide you with an understanding of the firm and the kind of work we do, as well as what it would be like to be a graduate. We'll offer you hands-on, practical work. You will work closely not only with lawyers but with senior associates and partners, and you’ll have exposure to complex matters and client contact.
We welcome students who are in the penultimate year of a combined degree, undergraduate law or the JD Program. The clerkship program runs between 4 - 8 weeks in our Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney offices. Talented clerks will be considered for the graduate program.
Interesting work and a great mix of clients are just two of the reasons Simon applied for the Maddocks graduate program. Discover what Simon's been able to achieve during his graduate year.
At Maddocks you'll be part of a firm that cares about its people, promotes flexibility and provides rewarding career opportunities. Discover how.
Our programs will allow you to work on complex matters. You'll be provided with an insight into your chosen area of law.
You'll receive access to privately owned businesses and international corporations as well as all tiers of government.
Modern open plan offices make it easier to collaborate with and learn from our partners and senior lawyers.
Our learning programs are tailored to your ambitions. In your graduate year you will undertake a variety of training.
Our award-winning flexible work arrangements will allow you to integrate your personal and professional commitments.
People perform best when they're able to bring their whole selves to work. We actively support people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences.
Corporate responsibility is key to our long-term success. We're focused on doing business responsibly, engaging with our communities and giving people access to premium legal representation.
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Our small grants program gives grants of up to $2,000 to the charities employees support.
Working at Maddocks not only means you’ll have the opportunity to join a rapidly growing firm. You’ll get to work in some of Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney’s best locations.
Set to double in size in 2017, our rapidly expanding Canberra office represents a growing demand from our Commonwealth Government client base. A stone’s throw from Parliament House, we provide clients with a full and outstanding service.
Our new office in Collins Square boasts state of the art features in technology and design. The fit out includes breakout areas for collaboration, standing desks, an outdoor deck and an internal café.
With views of the city skyline, our Sydney office is conveniently located in the centre of Sydney’s CBD in one of the city’s most coveted and exclusive buildings.
The graduate year is just the beginning of your exciting career at Maddocks. Meet our lawyers and find out what they've achieved since joining our firm.
What’s your career at Maddocks been like so far? I started at Maddocks as a graduate lawyer and I’m now a second year lawyer in the Melbourne Public Law team. When I was a first-year lawyer, I was given the opportunity to go on secondment to the Department of Premier and Cabinet as a legal […]
What is your role at Maddocks? I joined Maddocks in 2014 as a Senior Associate in the Employment, Safety and People team, where I work on a range of employment and industrial relations matters for both private and public sector employers. What’s an interesting matter you’ve recently worked on? I recently acted for an employer […]
What has your career at Maddocks been like so far? I work as a corporate lawyer in the Sydney Corporate group. Before Maddocks, I spent almost three years overseas working in a Magic Circle law firm. At Maddocks, I work in a team of about eight people and we sit within the larger Commercial team. […]
What do you do at Maddocks? I am a partner in the Commercial Disputes Group working in Sydney. I’m fairly new to the team having joined from another firm in late 2015. While I am a commercial litigator with broad experience, I specialise in competition and consumer law with a focus on the consumer markets and […]
What has your career at Maddocks been like so far? I joined Maddocks as a graduate in the Public Law group in Canberra in 2015. In my graduate year I rotated through the Litigation team and the Commercial team, and I also got to spend three months on secondment. I joined the Litigation team as a lawyer in […]
What has your career at Maddocks been like so far? I started at Maddocks as a graduate in 2013. During my graduate year I rotated through the Commercial and Construction groups and settled at the beginning of 2014 in Construction. After a year in Construction I made a decision to take a less litigious role in our Commercial […]
Tell us about your career at Maddocks so far I joined Maddocks in February 2015 after emigrating to Sydney with my partner. I started as a foreign Associate in the Sydney Property team and was promoted to Senior Associate in 2016. I have worked on a wide variety of matters involving both property-specific transactions and […]
What has your career at Maddocks been like so far? I joined Maddocks at the start of 2015 and I’m part of the specialised Consumer Markets & Franchising team and the broader Commercial team. I do a broad range of commercial work for clients that operate within franchised, licenced and dealer networks and manufacturing, retailing and […]
Applications open in June and the clerkship program starts later in the year. See our timeline for upcoming events for each office.
Applications open for the 2017/18 Canberra Clerkships
Applications close at 11.59pm for the 2017/18 Canberra Clerkships
Shortlisted applicants are invited to attend an interview with a partner and a representative from People & Culture.
Offers made for the 2017/2018 Canberra Clerkship positions
The 2017/2018 Canberra Clerkship commences
Applications open for 2017/18 Melbourne Seasonal Clerkships
Applications close at 11:59pm for 2017/18 Melbourne Seasonal Clerkships
Interviews commence for 2017/18 Melbourne Seasonal Clerkships
Offers made for 2017/18 Melbourne Seasonal Clerkship positions
The first group 2017/18 Melbourne Seasonal Clerks commence
Applications open for 2017/18 Sydney Summer Clerkships
Applications close at 11:59pm for 2017/18 Sydney Summer Clerkships
Interview period commences for 2017/18 Sydney Summer Clerkships
Offers made for 2017/18 Sydney Summer Clerkship positions.
Offers for 2017/18 Sydney Summer Clerkship positions to be accepted by this date.
Sydney Summer Clerkship will run from Monday, 20 November 2017 to Friday, 2 February 2018.
Applications for our Sydney and Canberra programs are now open. Applications for our Melbourne programs open in July. Click on the links below to start your application.
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