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1. Challenge your expectations
Graduate Practice Administrator Program
Clayton Utz is a leading Australian law firm, known for
the strength of its independent culture and its confident
and engaging approach. With 167 partners and over
1,700 employees across six offices, we continue to build
upon our reputation for confident, innovative, and incisive
legal advice.
The Firm is Organised in Fourteen
National Practice Groups:
With a genuine commitment to client service, we are
trusted advisers to a diverse base of private and public
sector organisations. Our clients include: many of
Australia’s top financial institutions; multinational
corporations operating in a range of sectors; States and
government agencies. We are also a global leader in
providing free legal advice (Pro Bono), with one of the
largest such practices outside of the United States. As an
independent firm, we have relationships with leading
firms around the World. That means our clients can be
confident they have access to the best possible advice,
wherever and whenever they need it. We offer the
sharpest legal minds, the clearest advice, an unshakable
sense of what is possible.
Clayton Utz Expertise
As a full-service commercial law firm, Clayton Utz has
lawyers around the country with diverse and broad
ranging legal experience, across a range of industry
sectors. Our strength is our ability to bring together teams
of lawyers with the right mix of legal and commercial skills
to match our clients’ business needs.
► Banking & Financial Services
► Commercial Litigation
► Competition
► Corporate; M&A; Capital Markets
► Environment & Planning
► Forensic & Technology Services
► IP & Technology
► Major Projects & Construction
► Public Sector
► Real Estate
► Restructuring & Insolvency
► Tax
► Workplace Relations, Employment & Safety
► Pro Bono
Our Pro Bono and corporate Social Responsibility span
all departments.
WE CREATE
OPPORTUNITY
YOU CREATE
SUCCESS

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Regardless of practice group or office location, being
surrounded by dynamic, ambitious, yet down to earth
individuals is ... well, it’s rather refreshing. We’re here
for the right reasons and we don’t step on each other's
toes to achieve success. We don’t just talk the talk, we
purposefully create the environments for collaboration
and we share laughs along the way. This supportive
attitude helped us get to where we are today ‒ and
can help you get to where you want to be.
Clayton Utz strives to provide a work environment that
is professionally and personally rewarding. We believe
success comes from striking the right balance between
work and leisure time and cultivating a wide range of
interests.
At Clayton Utz we’ve set serious goals for our social
responsibility programs to help address disadvantage
and support access to justice in the communities in
which we work and live.
As a part of Clayton Utz, you’ll be encouraged to join in
and make a difference.
► Our partners and employees volunteer time and
co-ordinate resources to assist community
organisations through our Community Connect
program;
► The Clayton Utz Foundation has distributed grants of
over $10.8 million to organisations who address
disadvantage and facilitate access to justice;
► Our Reconciliation Action Plan commits us to working
with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and other
Australians to overcome the challenges faced by
some First Australians; and
► Environmental sustainability initiatives to minimise our
impacts.
Volunteers from our Sydney office regularly assist with the
Aboriginal Meal program at The Wayside Chapel.
Clayton Utz partners and employees volunteer with the
Ardoch Youth Foundation’s Literacy Buddies ® program,
supporting school children in disadvantaged communities
in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.

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A Diverse and Inclusive Workforce
Diversity at Clayton Utz includes diversity of thought,
background, experience, personal circumstances,
education, religion, sexuality, gender, age, ethnicity and
ability/disability. That diversity helps to generate new
ideas, creates more effective teams and relationships,
and is key to attracting, developing and retaining the
very best people.
Our Work
Our lawyers work on market-leading transactions and
advise a range of top-shelf clients. The work on offer for
practice administrators is also challenging and varied.
Balance
We understand that our people have families and a life
outside work. We support our employees in maintaining
a balanced lifestyle and provide a range of sporting and
social programs for employees. These include social
functions, after-work drinks, sporting activities and
community service opportunities.
Outstanding Employee Benefits
Our people are our business, so it’s only smart business
to invest in you. When you join our outstanding team,
you’ll get some outstanding benefits. Whatever
challenge you set yourself, you will find all the support
you need to grow at Clayton Utz.
Access to Partners and Management
Partners and managers are readily accessible to
offer advice or assistance when required. Employees
are encouraged to set goals and challenge
themselves – confident in the knowledge that
support is there if needed.
Technology
We are committed to implementing the latest
technology, and recognise the benefits using the most
up-to-date systems and processes can deliver to our
people and our clients.
What We Look For
Clayton Utz employs a diverse selection of people with
a wide range of backgrounds, skills, interests and
competencies. We look for people who can contribute
new ideas and who take a creative approach to solving
problems.
We look for people who are:
► focused on results and can drive a task or project
through to completion;
► flexible, with the ability to maintain effectiveness while
adjusting to a changing work environment;
► learning-oriented, who actively seek new ideas and
different perspectives;
► adept at building relationships with clients and peers
to achieve goals;
► natural leaders who can provide guidance, feedback
and direction to individuals.
We value practice administrators who are proactive
about their careers and the achievement of their work
goals and who expect the best from themselves. We are
looking for people who are looking to make a career as
a legal practice administrator in a top-tier law firm.
Clayton Utz places great value on learning and
development and assists our people in continually
developing their knowledge and expertise.
We support your learning by offering:
► an intensive orientation program;
► a rotation program that allows you to gain experience
working within different legal departments;
► on-the-job guidance and support from your coach and
senior practice administrators within the firm; and
► in-house professional development opportunities.
People in your team are readily accessible to offer
advice or assistance when required. Clayton Utz offers a
vibrant work culture. We acknowledge the need for
balance and offer a range of sporting, social, health and
wellbeing activities.
The firm recognises that our people are our greatest
resource and we provide stimulating and challenging
work, entitlements and conditions which enable us to
retain good performers and offer appropriate rewards.

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Life in the Sydney Office
We aspire to strike a balance between our life at work
and a life outside work. We want our people to be well
rounded and accomplished individuals.
Sport
Clayton Utz offers involvement in many different sporting
activities. The firm participates in basketball, netball,
cricket, soccer, touch football, rugby and volleyball on a
regular basis.
Teams are also entered in annual events including the
BRW Triathlon and the City2Surf.
Employees at Clayton Utz maintain a healthy and
balanced lifestyle through organised yoga classes, an
association with a city gym and more leisurely sporting
activities such as the annual ski trip. There are even
football tipping competitions for those who prefer their
interest in sport to stay off the field.
Social
Our Sydney office has over 700 employees. This may
sound a little daunting, but at Clayton Utz, you are given
every opportunity to meet new, friendly and interesting
people through a range of exciting social events.
Social life at Clayton Utz is not just limited to one or
two major events. Throughout the year the firm hosts
regular activities including monthly Friday night drinks
and nibbles, breakfasts, trivia nights, etc. The biggest
event on the social calendar is the annual Christmas
party. These activities go towards making the working
environment at Clayton Utz unique and exciting.
It is the perfect platform to support balanced and
motivated employees.
In 2004 we opened ‘Café Clutz’ a café and meal area on
Level 15 where employees can meet for coffee and grab
some lunch.
Culture
If you are a dramatist, musician, artist or linguist, do not
think that your cultural activities have to end the moment
you set foot inside Clayton Utz.
Here we take pride in fostering and encouraging our
employees in the pursuit of their cultural activities. For
example, employees may undertake lunchtime language
courses.
Elise Tully
Executive Assistant
2009 Graduate
The Graduate Practice Administrator Program at
Clayton Utz was a wonderful way to start my
working career as a practice administrator. When I
started as a Graduate Practice Administrator in
2009, I benefited from developing the skills and
knowledge from my mentor practice administrators
that have helped me in becoming the practice
administrator I am today. The program is really
beneficial as you gain experience from meeting
and working with a variety of people across all
parts of the firm who will guide you along the way.
The program has given me so many amazing
opportunities, I worked for a well-known real estate
partner for 5 years and in 2014 was then promoted
to the role of Executive Assistant. I would highly
recommend the Graduate Practice Administrator
Program to anyone who wishes to begin their
career at a great firm.
Eileen Ferguson
Practice Administrator
I have been working as a Practice Administrator at
Clayton Utz for over 30 years and I must say it has
been a very enjoyable and rewarding journey.
Clayton Utz is like a second home and I have
formed many long term friendships with people I
have met throughout my years of service. The role
is constantly changing due to new technologies
and, as a result, I continue to develop a broad
range of new skills and knowledge. Clayton Utz
also provides the most current technology and
software and has the best in-house training
facilities in Sydney.

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Program Outline
We can offer you a great start and the opportunity to
build an excellent legal practice administrator career
at Clayton Utz.
We give our graduates a comprehensive orientation
program and the support of a coach and buddy to help
them grow and develop in their role. This is the
beginning of your professional life with Clayton Utz.
From the outset, you are part of a team and involved in
working closely with partners and lawyers who are
recognised leaders in their fields. The one year Clayton
Utz Graduate Practice Administrator Program provides a
solid basis for your future success and a full
understanding of the operations of our firm.
After completing the firm induction, graduates are
exposed to different areas of the business. These areas
include:
At the completion of the Program, a graduate practice
administrator will have the opportunity to apply for any
vacant practice administrator positions.
The Graduate Practice Administrator Program is both
challenging and comprehensive. We provide an
environment which will encourage you to extend
yourself and expand your knowledge. The program is
carefully planned and designed to ensure that you gain
experience in a wide range of areas. Your work at
Clayton Utz will allow you to put into practice the
knowledge you have acquired. Under the supervision of
a coach (senior practice administrator) and with the
help of a buddy who will be there to provide ongoing
support and guidance, you will experience the office
environment and culture at Clayton Utz first hand.
Rotations
Graduate practice administrators will have the
opportunity to gain experience by rotating through
diverse practice areas while on the program. At the end
of each rotation, you and your coach will review your
performance and work on your professional
development.
Accounts
Catering
Clients & Markets
Computer Education
Fours legal rotations in different practice areas
Information Technology
Library
Office Services
People & Development
Reception/Switchboard
Records Management
The Graduate Practice Administrator Program at Clayton Utz has been very beneficial in my development as a
Practice Administrator. The program pairs you with a buddy and a coach who help you throughout your
rotations. It also exposes you to different legal practice groups and people within Clayton Utz.
I found all the rotations challenging and very rewarding. During my last rotation I had the chance to settle in a
permanent position within the Major Projects and Construction Practice Group. I currently work for two partners
and six other lawyers. I really enjoy working within my team. I have built strong relationships with the people I
work with and continue to develop as a practice administrator.
Clayton Utz is a great firm, and I highly recommend the Graduate Practice Administrator Program.