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Legal operations recruiting in Sydney

Retained search for a Sydney company hiring a head of legal operations, a legal-operations manager, or a legal-technology lead: local demand, the sector mix, the pay pages, and the clock.

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›15 searches, 3 legal-ops seats, offer in 9 weeks

Legal operations recruiting Sydney places a head of legal operations. At 30 June 2025 the Law Society of NSW counted 3,848 corporate practitioners in the Sydney CBD and 3,370 in suburban Sydney. CLOC’s 2025 report put the median legal-operations team at 5. On 2 March 2026 CLOC said 32 percent of departments expect attorney headcount to grow. Sartori closed 15 Sydney in-house searches over three years, 3 of them legal-operations seats inside 12 legal-operations placements since 2017, with a 20-day shortlist and a 9-week offer. An ASX-listed insurer in Sydney hired its first head of legal operations in 10 weeks.

01 — Local demand

Sydney departments are being asked to run the register and the sustainability file without a larger lawyer bench.

Legal operations recruiting Sydney starts when a general counsel, a chief compliance officer, or a chief operating officer can see the work and cannot see the system. Intake is still an inbox. Outside-counsel invoices still clear by memory. The board still gets a narrative, and from 2025 the narrative has a statutory attachment: a material-service-provider register, or a sustainability report. The person who builds that attachment is an operator. The search is retained, and it is scoped before anyone is called.

That seat is the work on legal operations recruiting. Sartori & Partners was founded in early 2017 by Lorenzo Sartori. The Sydney in-house line has been worked for 5 years. Closed Sydney in-house searches over three years stand at 15. Legal operations is a subset of that line, a subset of the city count.

Legal-ops placements · since 2017

12

Median shortlist · those 12

20days

Median accepted offer

9weeks

Sydney in-house searches · 3 years

15

The 12, the 20 days, and the 9 weeks are the firm-wide legal-operations record since 2017, inside 400+ placements (230+ in-house). The 15 are every closed Sydney in-house search over three years. 3 of those 15 were legal-operations seats, and those 3 are part of the 12, an included subset of the 12.

02 — Why the seat is open now

Demand is rising. Attorney headcount, on the 2026 survey, mostly is not. Sydney added two statutory clocks in 2025.

CLOC’s 2025 State of the Industry report, released 12 February 2025 and drawn from the 2024 Harbor Law Department Survey, collected responses from 186 organizations across more than 15 industries and 14 countries. It found that 83 percent of departments expect demand for legal services to continue growing, and that 63 percent name workload and resource bandwidth as the top challenge. The same report put median legal-department headcount at 77 full-time employees, from 13 at companies below $3 billion of revenue to 244 above $40 billion. The median legal-operations function was 5 full-time employees, unchanged since 2023, and 2 full-time employees at companies below $3 billion of revenue. Thirty percent had an AI tool in use, up from 18 percent in 2023. Those are global survey cuts from that respondent set. A Sydney brief still names the two systems this hire will own in year one.

On 2 March 2026 CLOC released the 2026 State of the Industry report, based on the 2025 Harbor survey of 135 law departments with median revenue of $13 billion, across more than 15 industries. Regulatory compliance was cited as a workload driver by 63 percent of departments, and cybersecurity by 58 percent. Only 32 percent expect attorney headcount to increase. Only 37 percent expect outside-counsel spend to increase, down from 58 percent the year before. Expectations for an increase in inside legal spend fell from 65 percent to 47 percent. Eighty-five percent now have dedicated AI oversight or resources. The focus areas CLOC named were technology strategy (80 percent), financial management (72 percent), and outside-counsel and vendor management (62 percent). A Sydney general counsel who cannot add lawyers, and who has been told to keep the overflow off the panel, is describing a legal-operations brief.

The Sydney-specific load is prudential, and it landed in 2025. APRA’s news release of 1 July 2025 states that Prudential Standard CPS 230 Operational Risk Management came into force that day for banks, insurers and superannuation funds. The standard requires those entities to identify critical operations, test business continuity, and manage the risk that sits with material service providers. The compilation of the standard records that pre-existing service-provider contracts come under CPS 230 from the earlier of the next renewal or 1 July 2026. APRA’s 17 October 2024 release asked ADIs, superannuation trustees and insurers to submit a completed material-service-provider register by 1 October 2025. Writing the register, tagging which panel firms and vendors support a critical operation, and keeping the renewal calendar the GC can show an APRA reviewer, is operations work. It is a reason to hire the person who owns the vendor list.

The second clock is the sustainability report. ASIC’s page on who must prepare one states that the first cohort reports for financial years commencing on or after 1 January 2025, and that the second and third cohorts follow for financial years commencing on or after 1 July 2026 and 1 July 2027. Regulatory Guide 280, issued 31 March 2025, sets the Group 1 corporate size test, for periods commencing from 1 January 2025 through 30 June 2026, at two of three: consolidated revenue equal to or greater than A$500 million, consolidated gross assets equal to or greater than A$1 billion, or 500 or more employees, with a separate path for NGER reporters above the publication threshold. A Group 1 company with a Sydney legal department is already inside a reporting year or has just closed one. The data trail, the board paper and the assurance calendar sit with the operator. The climate judgment sits with the general counsel.

Sartori has worked the Sydney in-house market for 5 years. Over three years the desk closed 15 in-house searches, at 93 percent completion, on a typical timeline of 4 to 7 months. A counter-offer arrived on 26 percent of them. The median from written offer to acceptance was 12 working days. The interview cohort for the city is 250 structured interviews. That cohort is one number, used on every Sydney page that quotes interviews.

03 — Sector mix

The corporate practising certificates already sit in Sydney. The three files are narrower than that census.

The 2025 Annual Profile of Solicitors in NSW, prepared in July 2026 with a census date of 30 June 2025, counted 43,619 solicitors. Of those, 8,742 were corporate legal practitioners. The profile’s location table places 3,848 of the 8,742 in the Sydney CBD and 3,370 in suburban Sydney. Those two published cells sum to 7,218. The profile also states that 1,089 of the 8,742 were not practising as solicitors at the census date, so the location cells include solicitors who were not practising that day. The corporate sector grew 58 percent from October 2015 to June 2025. Fifty-one percent of corporate solicitors had been admitted for 15 years or more. The census is the employer shape around a legal-operations hire: a senior in-house solicitor book, concentrated in Sydney, which already has matter volume and a reporting need.

The census counts solicitors. A head of legal operations who came from finance, procurement or project management may hold no practising certificate and will be absent from the 8,742. The Law Society figure is the lawyer bench the operator sits beside. It is a solicitor census. Among corporate respondents to the 2025–26 Practising Certificate Survey who stated a role, and whose stated-role counts sum to 3,409, the modal title was senior lawyer or senior legal counsel: 1,253 people, 37 percent. Group general counsel were 203, heads of legal 347, and general counsel 373. That role mix is the counsel stack. Legal operations is the seat that does not appear as its own row.

Sartori maps roughly 6,500 lawyers in Sydney. That coverage figure is a map of the city. The research map behind the city cut is 1,480,000+ lawyers. Private-practice and company context for the city is on legal recruitment in Sydney and on the Sydney legal market in 2026. Company-side hiring across seats is on legal recruiters in Sydney. The 15 are the in-house line. They are a company-side count.

Of those 15, 3 were legal-operations seats. Of those 3, 2 were financial services and 1 was a listed technology company. The 2 and the 1 add to the 3. Those 3 are part of the 12 legal-operations placements since 2017. They are the Sydney files closed in the last three years, the Sydney slice of the 12.

  • Financial services. The public fact is CPS 230, in force for APRA-regulated banks, insurers and superannuation trustees from 1 July 2025, plus the Sydney concentration of corporate certificates (3,848 in the CBD and 3,370 in suburban Sydney). The file fact is 2 of 3: an ASX-listed insurer hiring its first head of legal operations, and an APRA-regulated superannuation trustee hiring a legal-operations manager to own the material-service-provider register.
  • Listed technology. One of the 3 was a legal-technology lead at an ASX-listed technology company. The brief was adoption of a contract-lifecycle tool the department had already bought. CLOC’s 2026 focus on technology strategy, named by 80 percent of departments, is the survey climate around that seat.
  • The census gap. Operators without a practising certificate never enter the 8,742. A department of two to four lawyers, the program band at $50 million to $250 million of revenue, is a different employer from the CLOC median of 5 legal-operations employees, and from the 2 legal-operations employees CLOC recorded below $3 billion of revenue. The scorecard names the two systems. The headcount comes from the department in front of the GC.

04 — The three files

Recent legal-operations work in Sydney

All 3 Sydney legal-operations seats inside the 15. All three sit inside the 12 legal-operations placements since 2017. The firm-wide median remains 9 weeks. The published file in that set of 12, a listed software group in Austin, closed in week 9 and is a separate matter.

SYDNEY × LEGAL OPERATIONS 3 ENGAGEMENTS · ANONYMISED

First head of legal operations for an ASX-listed insurer

An ASX-listed general insurer in Sydney whose general counsel still owned panel design, invoice review, and matter intake

Mandate
Hire the first head of legal operations, reporting to the GC, with intake and the CPS 230 material-service-provider register as the year-one systems.
Complication
The first brief asked for a transformation program. Two finalists had tool logos and no cutover. A counter-offer arrived on the preferred name.
Outcome
The brief was rewritten to two systems. The shortlist arrived on day 19. The offer was accepted in week 10. The counter-offer on that file was answered inside the 12 working days from written offer to acceptance. The general counsel later said: “The shortlist named operators who had already kept a material-service-provider register. We accepted in week 10.”

Legal-operations manager for an APRA-regulated superannuation trustee

An APRA-regulated superannuation trustee in Sydney whose legal team had no operator

Mandate
Hire a legal-operations manager, reporting to the GC, to stand up the material-service-provider register before a later head-of-function search.
Complication
The first job description copied CLOC’s median team of 5. Candidates at that scope declined a lean counsel bench.
Outcome
The scorecard was cut to the register and intake. Shortlist on day 18. Accepted offer in week 8.

Legal-technology lead for an ASX-listed technology company

An ASX-listed technology company in Sydney whose contracting stack had been bought and left unused

Mandate
Hire a legal-technology lead to own the contract-lifecycle tool, the playbook, and the adoption numbers the GC would take to the CFO.
Complication
The first slate was implementation consultants from software vendors. They had installed the tool for customers and had never sat inside a legal department that had to use it.
Outcome
Placed a legal-technology lead from another listed company who had completed a cutover. Shortlist on day 22. Accepted offer in week 9.

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05 — Compensation

Sydney legal-operations cash is a missing cell. The neighboring prints are a solicitor average and a super rate.

No remuneration report we use for this seat prints a Sydney head of legal operations as a single figure. The pages that hold the neighboring cash are these. Legal operations salary 2026 explains why attorney surveys miss the function. Head of legal operations salary 2026 is the grade conversation for the head of function. General counsel salary in Sydney, 2026 is the GC seat. In-house counsel salary in Sydney, 2026 is the counsel band the operator sits beside. Lawyer salary in Sydney, 2026 is the city occupation cut, including private practice. Read them as separate instruments.

The Law Society profile, from the 2025–26 Practising Certificate Survey, reports average FY2023–24 gross income of A$235,439 for corporate respondents, against A$194,987 in private practice and A$152,978 in government. Forty-four percent of corporate respondents reported earning over A$200,000. The Australian Taxation Office super guarantee rate is 12 percent of ordinary time earnings from 1 July 2025, and the same 12 percent rate applies from 1 July 2026. The profile’s A$235,439 is reported gross income. It leaves superannuation, bonus and long-term incentive bundled inside whatever the solicitor wrote down. The 12 percent rate is the statutory minimum on ordinary time earnings. The two numbers answer different questions, and the offer letter should show both.

Two program bands belong next to those links, and both are contractor rates for a gap, published for the United States and the United Kingdom. A US legal-operations contractor is $900–$1,600 a day. A UK legal-operations contractor is £700–£1,200 a day. The program ledger does not print an Australian day rate. A permanent Sydney search, when it is this one, is retained. The fee is 25–30 percent of the hire’s total first-year compensation. Thirty percent of that fee is paid as a retainer at engagement and is kept if the client cancels. The replacement window on a legal-operations search is 6 months. Off-limits on the client’s legal department run 24 months.

CLOC’s median of 5 legal-operations employees is a staffing fact from the 2025 report, and the same report’s cut below $3 billion of revenue is 2. Staffing is a headcount. A company at $50 million to $250 million of revenue, which typically runs two to four lawyers, prices a first operator against the systems in the brief and against the counsel cash on the Sydney salary pages. Offer acceptance on corporate mandates is 96 percent. Of placed in-house leaders, 97 percent remain at 12 months and 91 percent at 24 months. Those rates are firm-wide. Completion on the Sydney in-house line, the 15, is 93 percent.

06 — Timeline

Two clocks. The legal-operations median is 9 weeks. The Sydney in-house line is longer because it includes the GC seats.

Across 12 legal-operations placements since 2017, the median shortlist is 20 days and the median accepted offer is 9 weeks. The published file in that set is a listed software group in Austin: shortlist in 21 days, accepted offer in week 9. That file is on the Austin legal-operations case study. It is a US file. It is the shape of a first operations hire when the brief names intake and e-billing, and the Sydney files name their own systems the same way.

The Sydney in-house line is a wider book. Typical timeline from signed brief to accepted offer: 4 to 7 months. Median from written offer to acceptance: 12 working days. Counter-offer incidence: 26 percent. Completion: 93 percent. Base: the same 15 closed searches over three years. General counsel searches inside that 15 are why the city band runs to seven months. The 9-week legal-operations median stays the median of the 12.

Clock Base Figure
Legal-operations placements Since 2017, firm-wide 12, inside 400+ placements (230+ in-house)
Shortlist Those 12 20 days, median
Accepted offer Those 12 9 weeks, median
Sydney in-house searches closed Three years, all in-house seats 15
Of which legal operations Inside the 15 and inside the 12 3
Sydney in-house brief to accepted offer The 15 4 to 7 months, typical
Written offer to acceptance The same 15 12 working days, median
Counter-offer Share of those 15 26 percent
Completion The Sydney in-house line 93 percent
ASX-listed insurer, first head One of the 3 Shortlist day 19, accepted offer week 10
Superannuation trustee, ops manager One of the 3 Shortlist day 18, accepted offer week 8
ASX-listed technology, legal technology One of the 3 Shortlist day 22, accepted offer week 9

The three Sydney files closed in week 8, week 9, and week 10. Each of those weeks sits inside 4 to 7 months. The median on the 12 remains 9 weeks. The insurer file drew a counter-offer and still signed inside the 12 working days. That is one file inside the 26 percent. Completion on the Sydney in-house line is 93 percent. That rate covers the 15. Offer acceptance of 96 percent is the firm-wide corporate rate, a separate figure.

How the seat is scored, including CLOC’s twelve areas and the decision to hire an operator before another counsel, is on hiring a head of legal operations. A gap that is a leave, a CPS 230 register build, or a sustainability-report cycle, rather than a permanent seat, is interim legal talent. The printed contractor rates are the US day rate of $900–$1,600 and the UK day rate of £700–£1,200.

07 — How a search runs

The same six steps. The Sydney work is the reporting line, the two systems, and the 2025 registers.

  1. 01 — BriefMandate, success profile and conflicts frame agreed in writing.
  2. 02 — Market mapThe live universe mapped from our coverage, not whoever is in motion.
  3. 03 — ApproachConfidential, principal-led conversations with the mapped shortlist.
  4. 04 — ShortlistUnderwritten candidates presented with evidence, not CVs.
  5. 05 — OfferPackage design, references and counter-offer defence.
  6. 06 — CloseResignation, notice and the first hundred days, managed.

Week one writes the brief: which of CLOC’s areas this hire owns in year one, which system is primary, whether the line is to the GC only or also dotted to the CFO or COO, and whether the company is an APRA-regulated entity inside CPS 230 or a Group 1 reporter under Regulatory Guide 280. Conflicts are checked before outreach. The approach stays blind until both sides want a conversation. Mapping uses the research programme’s map of 1,480,000+ lawyers. The Sydney interview cohort is 250 structured interviews.

The offer is built against the neighboring salary pages and against the Law Society corporate average of A$235,439 for FY2023–24, with the 12 percent super guarantee from 1 July 2025 stated separately. Counter-offer planning assumes the 26 percent incidence on the 15. The 12 working days are the median once the reporting line and the cash are written. The replacement window is 6 months, and off-limits on the client’s legal department run 24 months. The method is on the legal operations recruiting page and on methodology.

08 — Sources

What each figure is allowed to prove.

›12 sources cited on this page
  1. 1 Sartori & Partners — legal-operations track record 12 legal-operations placements since 2017, inside 400+ placements (230+ in-house). Median shortlist 20 days. Median accepted offer 9 weeks. Austin listed-software file: shortlist 21 days, accepted offer week 9. Offer acceptance 96 percent. Retention of placed in-house leaders 97 percent at 12 months and 91 percent at 24 months. Replacement window 6 months on legal operations. Off-limits 24 months. Fee 25–30 percent of first-year total compensation; retainer 30 percent of the fee.
  2. 2 Sartori & Partners — Sydney in-house line Sydney in-house line, shared with every Sydney in-house page: 5 years in market; 15 closed searches over three years; 26 percent counter-offer; 12 working days from offer to acceptance; 93 percent completion; typical timeline 4 to 7 months; one interview cohort of 250; about 6,500 lawyers mapped in Sydney, cited in a separate sentence from the cohort. Of the 15, 3 were legal-operations seats in the last three years, inside the 12 since 2017.
  3. 3 Sartori & Partners — research programme and market map Market map of 1,480,000+ lawyers. Founded early 2017 by Lorenzo Sartori. Companies at $50 million to $250 million of revenue typically run two to four lawyers. US legal-operations contractor day rate $900–$1,600. UK legal-operations contractor day rate £700–£1,200.
  4. 4 Law Society of NSW — 2025 Annual Profile of Solicitors in NSW, July 2026 Census 30 June 2025. 43,619 solicitors. Corporate legal practitioners 8,742, of whom 1,089 were not practising at the census. Location of the 8,742: Sydney CBD 3,848; Sydney suburban 3,370. Those two cells sum to 7,218. Corporate sector grew 58 percent from October 2015 to June 2025. 51 percent of corporate solicitors had been admitted 15 years or more. 2025–26 Practising Certificate Survey, FY2023–24 gross income: corporate average A$235,439, private practice A$194,987, government A$152,978. 44 percent of corporate respondents reported earning over A$200,000. Among corporate respondents who stated a role (counts sum to 3,409), senior lawyer or senior legal counsel was 1,253 (37 percent).
  5. 5 CLOC — 2025 State of the Industry, news release 12 February 2025, and the 2024 Harbor survey PDF 186 organizations, more than 15 industries, 14 countries. 83 percent of departments expect demand for legal services to continue growing. 63 percent name workload and resource bandwidth as the top challenge. PDF (https://cloc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-CLOC-2025-SOTI-Report.pdf): median legal-department headcount 77 FTEs (13 below $3 billion of revenue; 244 above $40 billion). Median legal-operations function 5 FTEs, unchanged since 2023, and 2 FTEs at companies below $3 billion of revenue. 30 percent had an AI tool in use, up from 18 percent in 2023.
  6. 6 CLOC — 2026 State of the Industry release, 2 March 2026 2025 Harbor Law Department Survey with CLOC: 135 law departments, median revenue $13 billion, more than 15 industries. Regulatory compliance cited as a workload driver by 63 percent; cybersecurity by 58 percent. 37 percent expect outside-counsel spend to increase, down from 58 percent. 32 percent expect attorney headcount to increase. 47 percent expect inside legal spend to increase, down from 65 percent. 85 percent have dedicated AI oversight or resources. Focus areas: technology strategy 80 percent, financial management 72 percent, outside counsel and vendor management 62 percent.
  7. 7 APRA — CPS 230 in force, 1 July 2025 Cross-industry Prudential Standard CPS 230 Operational Risk Management came into force on 1 July 2025 for APRA-regulated banks, insurers and superannuation funds. It requires entities to identify critical operations, test business continuity, and manage risk from material service providers.
  8. 8 APRA — CPS 230 compilation, contract transition The standard commences on 1 July 2025. Pre-existing contractual arrangements with a service provider come under the standard from the earlier of the next renewal or 1 July 2026. An APRA-regulated entity must keep a register of material service providers and submit it annually.
  9. 9 APRA — material service provider register template, 17 October 2024 Completed registers were to be submitted by ADIs, superannuation trustees and insurers by 1 October 2025, as APRA’s preferred method for paragraph 51 of CPS 230.
  10. 10 ASIC — who must prepare a sustainability report Chapter 2M reporters that meet a section 292A threshold must prepare a sustainability report. The first cohort reports for financial years commencing on or after 1 January 2025. The second and third cohorts report for financial years commencing on or after 1 July 2026 and 1 July 2027.
  11. 11 ASIC — Regulatory Guide 280 Sustainability reporting, issued 31 March 2025 Group 1, for annual reporting periods commencing on or from 1 January 2025 to 30 June 2026: entities that meet at least two of three criteria — consolidated revenue equal to or greater than $500 million, consolidated gross assets equal to or greater than $1 billion, or 500 or more employees — plus the NGER publication-threshold path. PDF: https://download.asic.gov.au/media/j4rhwyiz/rg280-published-31-march-2025.pdf
  12. 12 Australian Taxation Office — super guarantee percentage Super guarantee rate is 12 percent for 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026, and 12 percent from 1 July 2026. The rate applies to ordinary time earnings.

09 — Questions

Legal operations recruiting in Sydney

What is legal operations recruiting Sydney?

A retained search, for a Sydney company, for a head of legal operations, a legal-operations manager, or a legal-technology lead. Sartori & Partners closed 15 Sydney in-house searches over three years. 3 of those 15 were legal-operations seats, and those 3 sit inside 12 legal-operations placements since 2017. The firm-wide legal-operations median is a 20-day shortlist and an accepted offer in 9 weeks. The city line, which also covers general counsel and other in-house seats, typically runs 4 to 7 months. The market page is legal recruitment in Sydney. The practice is legal operations recruiting.

How long does a Sydney legal-operations search take?

Across 12 legal-operations placements since 2017, the median shortlist is 20 days and the median accepted offer is 9 weeks. An ASX-listed insurer in Sydney hired its first head of legal operations in week 10, after a shortlist on day 19. That file is one of 3 Sydney legal-operations seats inside 15 closed Sydney in-house searches over three years. The Sydney in-house line, of which those 3 are a subset, shows a 26 percent counter-offer rate, 12 working days from offer to acceptance, and 93 percent completion, on a typical timeline of 4 to 7 months. The fee is 25–30 percent of total first-year compensation. Thirty percent of the fee is the retainer at engagement. The replacement window on a legal-operations search is 6 months.

Which sectors in Sydney hire legal operations talent?

The Law Society of NSW’s July 2026 profile, census 30 June 2025, counted 8,742 corporate legal practitioners in New South Wales, of whom 3,848 worked in the Sydney CBD and 3,370 in suburban Sydney. APRA’s CPS 230, in force from 1 July 2025, requires banks, insurers and superannuation trustees to keep a register of material service providers. Of Sartori’s 3 Sydney legal-operations seats inside the 15, 2 were financial services and 1 was a listed technology company. Those three files are the Sydney legal-operations count inside the 15.

Where is Sydney legal-operations pay actually printed?

There is no single published Sydney cell for a head of legal operations. Use legal operations salary 2026 and head of legal operations salary 2026 for the function, and general counsel salary in Sydney, 2026 and in-house counsel salary in Sydney, 2026 for the counsel cash the operator sits beside. The Law Society profile puts average FY2023–24 gross income for corporate respondents at A$235,439. The Australian Taxation Office super guarantee is 12 percent of ordinary time earnings from 1 July 2025. Neither figure is a head-of-function salary survey.

Who should a Sydney head of legal operations report to?

The general counsel, with a dotted line to the CFO or the COO on spend. Technology is one of CLOC’s twelve areas, and the reporting line stays with the general counsel. CLOC’s 2 March 2026 release said technology strategy was a focus for 80 percent of departments, financial management for 72 percent, and outside-counsel and vendor management for 62 percent. The person who owns those three still reports to the GC. A chief compliance officer remains a different search: compliance recruitment.

What changed in Sydney in 2025 that creates operations work?

APRA Prudential Standard CPS 230 commenced on 1 July 2025. Pre-existing service-provider contracts came into scope on the earlier of the next renewal or 1 July 2026, and APRA asked ADIs, insurers and superannuation trustees for a material-service-provider register by 1 October 2025. Group 1 climate reports under the Corporations Act start for financial years commencing on or after 1 January 2025. ASIC Regulatory Guide 280, issued 31 March 2025, sets the Group 1 size test at two of three: consolidated revenue equal to or greater than A$500 million, consolidated gross assets equal to or greater than A$1 billion, or 500 or more employees. The register, the contract clauses and the sustainability data trail are operations work. The legal judgment stays with the general counsel. CLOC’s 2026 report, released 2 March 2026, said only 32 percent of departments expect attorney headcount to grow.

10 — Related

City hub, the practice, and the pay pages.

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