Why People Choose to Work at Hicksons

At Hicksons, we encourage a highly professional, yet relaxed and familiar, working environment. We have an open door policy to encourage access for guidance and support. We strive to be open, insightful and solutions focused with our staff, as well as with our clients.

Our Balanced Working Environment

Hicksons aims to create a working environment that provides a fulfilling career while allowing a balanced lifestyle.

Hicksons has a Business Casual Dress Policy for professional staff, although they are required to be suitably attired when meeting clients. We support a Mufti-day each Friday when staff can wear casual clothes including jeans. Our Mufti-days raise funds for the firm's preferred charity. Our office social activities provide the opportunity to relax with work colleagues. The firm sponsors a family picnic day, various sporting activities and our Christmas Party for the participation of all staff. We have negotiated discounts for staff for gym memberships and health insurance.

Friday night drinks, a tradition at Hicksons, are provided for staff.  At drinks held at the end of each month, our partners take the opportunity to address staff on major developments in the firm. 

Our people are encouraged to participate in various corporate, sporting challenges including touch football, soccer, triathlons, the City2Surf and the MCRI Foxtel Lap which we won in 2006.  We also sponsor community fundraising events such as the annual Pink Ribbon Breakfast to help raise funds for breast cancer research. 

Work Life Quality

Hicksons places a high value on ensuring that staff balance their work and personal/family responsibilities. The firm has an Employee Assistance Program available to all staff and their immediate family, which provides an external counselling service to assist with any personal stresses or concerns that may be affecting their quality of life. The firm also provides study leave. 

What We Look for in Our Lawyers

We seek people who are intelligent, motivated, hardworking, friendly, client focused and team oriented.  Our recruits are committed and enjoy challenging themselves in a supportive work environment.

As a progressive mid-tier law firm, we recruit people who relate to our culture and who want to contribute to the firm's ongoing success and growth by performing at a superior level.  

Hicksons has a reputation for providing the foundation for many lifelong professional and personal relationships. We are looking for lawyers who seek to establish and maintain relationships with their colleagues and clients. We seek people who can keep pace with changes in the legal profession and who will benefit from the culture of a medium-sized law firm that values and invests in its people.

Job Vacancies 

Our current job vacancies appear in the right column of this page.  Vacancies at Hicksons are also listed on SEEK.

For further information about job vacancies and general careers advice, please email our Human Resources Department at resumes@hicksons.com.au.

Continuous Learning and Development

Hicksons provides an induction program for all new staff. Monthly professional meetings provide a forum for legal updates and sharing problems and ideas. Computer training in our leading edge case and practice management systems and the Microsoft suite is offered in-house.

We encourage individual growth through professional development. Performance and career development reviews are conducted regularly. These provide an opportunity to identify strengths and development needs.

Our experience has shown that optimum professional development is achieved by daily on- the-job experience. We endeavour to capitalise on this by ensuring that you work with and learn from skilled practitioners in a supportive environment.