Excellence
We recruit the top few percent of legal talent and hold work to a senior standard. Quality is never negotiable — it's the reason clients trust us with more.
About Jurisa
Bridging Australian legal teams and Sri Lankan talent
Jurisa embeds elite, common-law-trained Sri Lankan lawyers and contract professionals into Australian in-house legal teams and law firms. We are not a staffing agency — we are a managed, quality-first partner that becomes a genuine extension of your team.
Our story
Why we exist
Jurisa was founded to solve two problems at once — and to solve them for each other.
On one side, Australian legal teams and law firms are under relentless pressure. Demand keeps rising, budgets stay flat, and hiring is slow and expensive. Routine, high-volume work crowds out the strategic matters that senior lawyers should be spending their time on. They needed affordable, reliable capacity — without the cost and rigidity of another permanent hire.
On the other side sits Sri Lanka: a jurisdiction grounded in English common law, with English-medium legal education and a deep pool of exceptional lawyers seeking meaningful international careers. That talent was ready; it simply needed a bridge to the work.
Jurisa is that bridge. We connect the two through a managed, quality-first model — recruiting, training and supervising outstanding Sri Lankan professionals, then embedding them directly into Australian teams. The result isn't outsourcing at arm's length. It's a partnership: your people and ours, working as one.
Two problems, one bridge
"Our mission is to give every Australian legal team access to exceptional, affordable capacity — while opening world-class international careers for Sri Lanka's finest legal talent. Two goals, one partnership, better outcomes on both sides of the bridge."
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The Jurisa mission
What we set out to build
What we set out to build
Our values
The principles behind every engagement
These aren't posters on a wall. They shape who we hire, how we deliver, and the standard we hold ourselves to — for our clients and our people alike.
Partnership
We work as an extension of your team, not a vendor at arm's length. Your people, systems and standards become ours — and your success is how we measure our own.
Integrity & confidentiality
Trust is the foundation of legal work. We hold ourselves to enterprise-grade security and confidentiality, and we do what we say we will — every time.
Investing in our people
We back our lawyers with structured training in Australian legal practice, mentoring and clear career paths — because great careers produce great work.
Flexibility
You scale on your terms. A single specialist, a project team or a fully managed pod — ramp up when the work demands it and pause when it doesn't, with no lock-in.
Impact
We're driven by outcomes on both sides of the bridge — better results and freed-up hours for clients, and life-changing careers for talented lawyers in Sri Lanka.
What makes us different
A managed partnership, not a placement
- Dedicated and embedded — not transactional or a rotating queue
- Australian-managed delivery, supervision and quality assurance
- We own recruitment, training, HR, IT and security — you own the outcomes
- Enterprise-grade confidentiality and data handling by design
- Transparent, flexible pricing — scale up or pause anytime
How our model is different
We carry the load so your team carries the value
A staffing agency hands you a CV and walks away. Jurisa stays. We take on the entire operating burden of building and running a high-performing offshore legal team, so you get capacity that simply works.
Every engagement is led by an Australian delivery manager who owns quality, communication and momentum. Behind them, we handle recruitment, structured training on Australian practice, HR, IT and information security — the whole machine. You get a dedicated resource who learns your business and stays with it, not a name from a roster.
Leadership
The people who make the partnership work
Jurisa is led by a team that spans both sides of the bridge — Australian legal delivery and client success, paired with deep Sri Lankan legal and people leadership in Colombo.
Amara Fernando
Founder & Managing Director
A commercial lawyer who saw both sides of the gap first-hand and built Jurisa to close it — leading strategy, partnerships and the quality-first culture.
Rohan Weerasinghe
Head of Legal Delivery (Colombo)
Leads our Colombo legal team, setting delivery standards, supervision and QA so every piece of work meets the mark before it reaches a client.
Claire Mitchell
Head of Client Success (Australia)
Our Australian point of contact for clients — owning onboarding, communication and the ongoing relationship so every engagement runs smoothly.
Dilani Perera
Head of Talent & People
Runs recruitment, training and careers — finding the top few percent, investing in their growth, and building the culture that keeps them with us.
Our commitment to our people
Great work starts with great careers
The quality our clients rely on is built on the way we treat our people. We believe the best legal talent does its best work when it's supported, challenged and genuinely invested in.
In Colombo, that means structured training in Australian legal practice, real mentoring, international exposure to sophisticated legal work, and clear paths to grow. We hire for the long term and build careers people want to stay in — which is exactly why our clients get consistency instead of churn.
If you're an exceptional lawyer or contract professional looking for an international career with genuine growth, we'd love to hear from you.
What we invest in our people
- Structured training in Australian legal practice
- Mentoring from senior lawyers and delivery leads
- International exposure to sophisticated legal work
- Clear career paths and long-term progression
- A modern, secure Colombo workplace
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Cities we call home — Melbourne & Colombo
Top 5%
Of applicants pass our vetting to join the bench
60%
Typical saving vs. a comparable Australian hire
100%
English-medium, common-law-trained lawyers
Let's build your bridge to more legal capacity
Book a 30-minute discovery call. We'll get to know your team, map your workload, and show you exactly how a Jurisa partnership would work.