- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: Bilingual
- Hours: 44 hours per week
- Education: Bachelor's degree
- Experience: 5 years or more
Asset languages
Work setting
- Private company, corporation or industry
Tasks
- Advise clients of their legal rights and all matters related to law
- Perform administrative functions related to the practice of law
- Perform management functions related to the practice of law
- Plead clients' cases before courts of law, tribunals and boards (lawyers only)
- Draw up legal documents and prepare statements of legal opinion
- Supervise professional, para-legal and support staff and articling students
- Research legal precedents and gather evidence
- Write and edit for legal publications
Supervision
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Membership in a provincial or territorial law society
Computer and technology knowledge
Area of work experience
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Tight deadlines
- Attention to detail
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Values and ethics
Screening questions
- Do you have experience working in this field?
Workplace information
Support for persons with disabilities
- Applies accessible and inclusive recruitment policies that accommodate persons with disabilities
Support for newcomers and refugees
- Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition
Support for mature workers
- Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination
Supports for visible minorities
- Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
