Staff Lawyer

7 months ago

Toronto, Canada Legal Aid Ontario Full time

**Company Bio**

Legal Aid Ontario employees are committed to making a difference in the lives of our clients.

As an integral partner in the Justice system, working at Legal Aid Ontario is more than just a job. It's an opportunity to help people who need it the most; to ensure each client receives the access to justice afforded to them under the law.

If you are looking for a new challenge in your already meaningful career with a team dedicated to justice, and innovation in a flexible and supportive work environment consider this opportunity below.

**Primary function**

To provide legal services in the areas of administrative law, and professional regulation to carry out LAO’s statutory powers under the Legal Aid Services Act, 2020 and its rules applicable to LAO’s Lawyer Roster.

Roster Management Staff Lawyers are responsible for working with LAO’s District Offices to oversee LAO’s roster of third-party independent service providers. This oversight includes:

- providing legal opinions and recommending courses of action to internal LAO staff to resolve issues
- legal research and analysis to identify issues and determine courses of action
- drafting correspondence, memoranda and administrative law pleadings further to LAO’s legislation, and rules
- writing notices of suspension from the roster, or roster refusal and removal
- reviewing information relating to complaints, audits, or investigations regarding lawyer service-providers, and assessing any potential risks to clients or LAO,
- identifying areas for improvement in LAO’s processes and policies relating to management of its roster and quality of service provided to LAO clients
- chairing inter-departmental meetings including LAO’s Compliance Departments;
The Roster Management staff lawyer will be responsible for a high-volume of roster management files at any given time. This position also includes ensuring data tracking, file management, and policy review and drafting.

This position will appeal to a lawyer with significant experience in administrative law, professional regulation, and legal research and writing. This position requires significant knowledge of LASA, 2020, and Roster Management processes, and will require a lawyer who can effectively navigate and manage multiple competing priorities, and an often-intensive workload involving detailed reading, writing, and correspondence. Effective time-management and organization is essential in this role.

Home location: Provincial office

Secondary location: To be determined

These positions are designated Flexible Hybrid and require attendance at an LAO office location once per week.

Reports to: Director, Roster Management Dept.

Department Description:
Our team conducts legal research and analysis to identify issues and determine courses of action including drafting correspondence, memoranda and administrative law pleadings further to LAO’s legislation, and rules and writing notices of suspension from the roster, or roster removal. Another function of the RM group is to review information relating to complaints, audits, or investigations regarding lawyer service-providers, and assessing any potential risks to clients or LAO and identify areas for improvement in LAO’s processes and policies relating to management of its roster and quality of service provided to LAO clients. We also chair inter-departmental meetings including LAO’s Compliance Departments.

LAO’s Roster Management Department also leads a number of modernization projects tied to the implementation of the Legal Aid Services Act, 2020 and the Roster Management Rules. These projects including the transition of roster members to the new minimum experience requirements, implementation of the conditional authorization and duty counsel renewal processes, and data management initiatives.

**Key accountabilities**
- Drafting legal correspondence, notices of suspension, notices of refusal to enrol on the roster, notices of roster removal, and other materials further to LAO’s legislation, rules, or policies.
- Oversight of legal aid roster members in one or more of LAO’s Districts, including carriage of a high-volume roster management files at any given time
- Identify and assess risk, and formulate strategies and approaches to addressing issues with roster management files as they arise;
- Reviewing and providing direction to management and advice on reports from LAO’s Compliance Departments
- Facilitating knowledge-sharing and best practices among staff offices
- File management, including developing and maintaining repository of correspondence, pleadings for roster membership proceedings or related litigation, and other relevant materials including use of computer technology and data input for statistics measurements in a timely manner
- Data tracking, including reviewing and assessing data from LAO’s annual lawyer self-report, and tracking data on roster member issues and resignations.
- Supporting District

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