Australia's largest law firm with 190+ partners across six cities
Clayton Utz is a 190-year-old Australian law partnership operating at scale—1,001–5,000 employees across six cities, with nearly 200 partners. The firm is actively implementing a 2023–2026 strategy that spans emerging products, pro bono expansion, and digital forensics capabilities, while navigating internal friction around module implementations and approval workflows. Tech stack is enterprise-standard (Microsoft 365, Workday, SQL Server, Python, Relativity), reflecting a traditional professional services operation with selective data and engineering support rather than technology-driven transformation.
Clayton Utz is one of Australia's oldest and largest law firms, headquartered in Sydney. The firm serves large private sector and government clients across banking & finance, corporate M&A, tax, workplace, commercial litigation, construction, intellectual property, and risk management. With offices in six cities and nearly 200 partners, the firm maintains full-service capability. Currently, the firm is scaling its pro bono practice, launching community connect initiatives, and expanding energy sector coverage. Legal roles dominate the hiring mix (60 of 81 active roles), with smaller teams in operations, finance, HR, and data, reflecting the partner-driven, client-service model of a traditional law partnership.
Microsoft 365 suite (Office, Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint), Workday for HR, SQL Server and SQL for databases, Python for scripting, Relativity for legal workflows, and Adobe Acrobat for document handling.
Internal priorities include strategy implementation, expanding the energy practice, digital forensics capability, new module deployments, and streamlining complex approval workflows. External focus includes winning new clients and government procurement opportunities.
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