Welcome to our new series featuring Australian lawyers living and working overseas. In 2017, Daniella Phair was working as a media and tech lawyer at King & Wood Mallesons, when she got a surprise message on LinkedIn.
In 2017, 29-year-old Daniella Phair was working as a media and technology solicitor at KingAmerican Amazon executives were flying to Australia to find a new batch of recruits to take back with them to the tech company’s headquarters in Seattle. Might she be interested, the recruiter asked?Daniella Phair worked at Amazon in Seattle for four years.
Working at Amazon also came with unique, canine perk, something that definitely wouldn’t fly at a top-tier law firm. Phair spent four years in Seattle, working in several roles, but she recently returned to Melbourne to take up a legal role with Tennis Australia.She used the E3 visa scheme, a US visa available only to Australians with a job offer. “I couldn’t have worked at a law firm or any other company,” she says, “I had to be a lawyer at Amazon.”
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