Launch your legal career with WRP Legal

We’re committed to supporting the next generation of legal professionals through a clerkship program that offers real world, practical legal experience in a professional, supportive, and collaborative environment.

From day one, you’ll be treated as a valued contributor, working on real tasks alongside experienced lawyers across a range of practice areas.

Whether assisting with a broad range of commercial matters, property transactions, or litigation work, you’ll gain hands on experience that builds your skills, confidence, and professional capability.

Our clerkship program is designed to bridge the gap between academic study and professional life, giving you real world, practical legal experience in a professional, supportive, and collaborative environment.

From day one, you’ll be treated as a valued contributor. Our structured onboarding program will set you up for success and fast track you to doing meaningful work that builds both confidence and capability.

Your experience at WRP Legal will include:

• One on one mentorship with a Director
• Guidance, supervision and feedback from lawyers across all levels of the firm
• Hands on involvement in real legal matters across a wide variety of work that truly matters. This includes research, drafting, interviewing clients, and attending meetings.
• Work with our ever growing premium client base on significant transactions
• Opportunities for direct client interaction
• Involvement in multiple practice areas to build broad legal skills and insight
• The ability to contribute independently while working within a collaborative group of new and experienced clerks
• Access to advanced legal technology and CPD training
• A vibrant, supportive, and inclusive workplace culture
• Direct opportunities to secure a full time graduate role
• The chance to join a young, dynamic, and social team of over 60 staff

We understand how important it is to find the right environment to begin your legal journey. At WRP Legal, we’re proud of our inclusive culture, diverse practice areas, and genuine commitment to developing early-career professionals. You’ll be given space to grow, opportunities to contribute, and support every step of the way.

When you join us, you’re not just observing — you’re engaging in meaningful work, building practical skills, and laying the foundations for a successful legal career.

We offer a full three month placement from the beginning of December to the end of February.

You will be placed primarily under in one Director and team, which gives you the opportunity to fully immerse yourself at our firm, engage meaningfully in matters and transactions and create real connections. There will be an opportunity to take some work from other teams.

The areas you may be placed in are:
• Real Estate/Property
• Litigation
• Intellectual Property
• Corporate
• Commercial
• Taxation

So why not benefit from our track record of supportive career progression.

We will be hosting an AULSA sponsored firm presentation evening at our office on the 30th April 2026. This is a great opportunity to see our working environment, meet our people and experience the unique culture of our firm.

We invite all interested potential applicants to attend this event and will update this website as soon as the date is confirmed

WRP Legal is a signatory to the AULSA Uniform Clerkship Scheme.

As such we observe the following key dates:
• Applications Open 22 June
• Applications Close 17 July
• Interviews 27 July
• Offers made 31 August
• Offers accepted by 2 September

If you are interested in starting your legal career with a Clerkship at WRP Legal please send in your applications from 22 June, 2026 either by using the submission window below by emailing your letter of application, cv and academic transcript to hr@wrplegal.com.au