Solicitor

4 months ago

London, Canada City of London Full time

The City of London has implemented the Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression (ARAO) division with the mandate to create and sustain action-focused, positive, and lasting systemic change in the City of London so that race or membership in an equity-denied group does not predict one’s access to opportunities or ability to engage whole heartedly in the London community. To learn more about The City of London’s commitment to Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression, visit the ARAO website.

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**Title**:Solicitor**:

- Job Close Date: Oct 09, 2024**File Number**:

- 1626

**Employee Group**:

- Mgmt Non Union

**Service Area**:

- Legal Services

**Division**:

- City Solicitor's Office

**Job Type**:

- Full-Time Temporary (up to 2 years)

**# of Openings**:
1

**Summary of Duties**:
Focus: Civil Litigation

Reporting to and under the general supervision of the City Solicitor, acts as solicitor, counsel and advisor to The Corporation of the City of London in legal matters generally of average or above average complexity, requiring an appropriate degree of experience, skill and competence.

**Work Performed**:
Acts as solicitor, counsel and advisor, or assists more senior counsel, in all aspects of one or more of the following areas of the practice of law, as assigned by the City Solicitor.

**.**:

- Municipal law enforcement and provincial offences, administrative tribunals, business law (including but not restricted to banking, bills of exchange, bankruptcy and insolvency, business and no-share corporations, bulk sales, carriers, construction liens, copyright, trade marks and protection of intellectual property, and trade and commerce), contracts, civil litigation and procedure (including but not restricted to negligence and other torts), debtors and creditors, personal and real property, and real estate (including but not restricted to easements, expropriations, mortgages, secured transactions, landlord and tenant, trespass, and water and water courses) environmental law, municipal corporations (including but not restricted to municipal assessment and taxation, public authorities and officers, public utilities, and social welfare), highways and streets (including but not restricted to highway traffic), labour relations, (including but not restricted to opinions regarding discipline and discharge, arbitration, judicial reviews, Workers' Compensation Benefits and Worker's Compensation Appeal Tribunal Hearings and employment law, in general), insurance, and land use planning.
- Discharges such other responsibilities as may be assigned by the City Solicitor.
- Performs related duties as assigned.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor of Laws or Juris Doctor and membership in good standing in the Law Society of Upper Canada.

**Skills and Abilities**:

- Three to five years, preferably in municipal law.
- Able to speak, write and read French at an advanced level is an asset.

**Compensation & Other Information**:
$112,978 - $148, 226

This posting is for one (1) temporary, full-time, up to (2) two years position.

Standard hours of Work: Monday - Friday from 8:30a.m. to 4:30p.m.

Work Arrangement: Hybrid.

**Police Record Check**:
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