The Law Firm Employee Handbook Template is a comprehensive employee handbook full of law firm specific guidelines (legal and operational) to assist in running your law firm. It is designed to improve communication with employees, ensure compliance with the law and prevent employee issues.

The Law Firm Employee Handbook Template is for use by law firms Australia wide and is designed to be a reference guide for employees - both professional and administrative staff. It is designed to make clear what you as the law firm owner expect of your employees as well as what they can expect from you as their employer. A handbook creates consistency in management practices and avoid misunderstandings or disputes between employees and management, particularly when your law firm is growing and different staff are managed by different managers

Our Law Firm Employee Handbook Template is able to be customised to include the details specific to your firm. The template is 27 pages and includes:

• Introductory sections to allow you to insert and personalise your organisational structure

• Sections around in office and remote work

• Conflicts of interest

• Sections around hours of work, communication and confidentiality

• Policies including bullying and harassment policies, equal employment opportunity policies and email and social media use policies

• Leave entitlements under the NES including annual leave, personal and carers leave and parental leave; and

• What happens when the employment agreement ends.

If you don’t have an inhouse HR this law firm employment policy handbook is perfect for you as it provides structure and guidance without needing to employ a HR consultant.

Note: This is a general Law Firm Employee Handbook Template. If you have any questions, please contact us at bossteam@readytobosslegal.com.

What happens when you purchase our Law Firm Employee Handbook Template?

1. You will receive a download link to an editable Microsoft Word document (your template) immediately after purchase of the template.

2. Download the template (your access will expire after 24 hours but once you save it on your desktop, it is yours to keep forever)

3. Add your own logo/badge and change the font to personalise your document.

4. Add your information where we have red text indicators and/ or guidance notes. While you can edit the handbook, we suggest you don’t edit without legal advice as these templates have been drafted by an experienced lawyer.

5. Your template can be used more than once, however you should be mindful that where a significant amount of time has passed since it was purchased or the law in that area has changed significantly, the template may not be current or up to date with the law.

Disclaimer

In downloading the Law Firm Employee Handbook Template from Ready to Boss Legal (Template), you acknowledge that by purchasing, downloading and customising this template, Ready to Boss Legal is not acting as your lawyer or providing you with legal advice.

This template is legal information only and should not substitute for or constitute professional legal advice. We recommend you consult with a lawyer for legal advice, noting Ready to Boss Legal is a legal publisher and not a law firm.

All copyright in this document belongs exclusively to Ready to Boss Legal. We grant you a one use non-exclusive, royalty-free, revocable license to use this document for the purposes of using it in your business or for personal use. However, this document may not be copied, given to a third party, re-sold, reproduced, transmitted electronically or otherwise used in any way in whole or in part for the purpose of commercial gain by you for any purpose that may amount to competition with Ready to Boss Legal.

This document contains information only, noting it was current as at the time of the date in the footer of the template document. We cannot guarantee that the law will not have changed since your purchase of the document and you are obligated to ensure that if you save and use at a later date, that the law remains current.

Finally, we ask that you do not share our templates as this breaches our copyright and the purpose for which this template was sold to you.