Legal Assistant
4 months ago
Edmonton, AB, CA- Sep 1, 2024
Dentons is designed to be different. Our firm leads the way in a rapidly changing legal marketplace. We challenge the status quo and deliver consistent results as well as uncompromising quality and value to our clients. Our global presence is renowned as a firm with over 21,000 individuals in more than 200 offices serving clients across 80+ countries.
Dentons Canada is committed to its people and communities. We are consistently recognized as an employer of choice having received numerous awards including being selected as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers (2024); Canada’s Top Employers for Young People (2024), and Canada’s Best Diversity Employers (2024).
This role is an opportunity for you to join the world’s largest law firm, a firm that offers opportunities to build your career while growing your skills and deepening your expertise.
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The **Agile Legal Assistant** role provides both administrative and practice management support to legal professionals in a variety of practice areas across the **Edmonton **office. The position will require a confident, reliable and business-minded junior assistant with the ability to manage multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Assisting the Legal Support teams with overflow work and backup coverage as needed and working with Legal Support management on special projects.
- Drafting, preparing and proofreading correspondence, accounts and various transactional documents and forms.
- Entering and maintaining lawyer’s dockets and coordinating with the Accounting Department, when necessary; preparing detailed billings.
- Dealing with and responding to client inquiries expeditiously and conducting follow up; keeping the lawyers apprised of interactions in their absence.
- Opening, maintaining and putting away files, and maintaining precedent systems using the Firm protocol for knowledge management.
- Preparing and updating cheque requisitions and expense reports.
- Updating and maintaining client/matter lists and current client contact records electronically to meet Dentons’ requirements.
- General administrative duties such as scheduling appointments and meetings, photocopying materials, booking meeting rooms, making travel arrangements, etc.; working with other related departments/services internally to provide documents and other materials on time to meet client needs.
- Maintaining and organizing files, both electronic and hard copy as required.
- Demonstrating a team approach; supporting and standing in for colleagues to cover absences; ensuring strict adherence to confidentiality; accountability in relation to both internal and external clients to achieve outputs and goals for the Department and the Firm.
- Other duties as assigned.
**REQUIREMENTS**
- Legal Assistant diploma or college certificate in office or business administration or equivalent.
- Familiarity with a law firm environment, ideally with 1 to 3 years legal assistant or legal administrative assistant experience. Preference will be given to previous experience gained within a large firm environment.
- Passion for working in a team environment, willing to help others and comfortable with sharing work assignments.
- Strong grammatical skills, including punctuation and proofreading, attention to detail and accuracy are a must.
- Ability to produce a high quality and quantity of work, occasionally under tight timelines.
- Able to meet deadlines, work well under pressure and take initiative using sound judgment.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written).
- Excellent organizational/follow up skills; attention to detail, proof reading and accuracy are required.
- Excellent organizational and follow up skills; ability to exercise sound judgment in setting priorities.
- Professional manner, ability to exercise sound judgement in setting priorities
- Demonstrated commitment to privacy and ethical conduct.
**We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interivew will be contacted.**
At Dentons we are committed to offering equitable and competitive pay, we achieve this by aligning internal salary ranges for specific roles to similar positions in the external market. In the normal course, our practice is to hire, transfer and promote employees within the entry part of our range, adjusting as needed based on the prior experience, skills and competencies required for the role along with any market differentials.
Recognizing our exceptional talent means providing a comprehensive total rewards package beyond a competitive salary. We have curated our employee benefits portfolio to offer inclusive and comprehensive wellbeing and developmental programs for our people. With extended benefits and mental health plans, paid time off, savings plans, fitness subsidy, parental leave top up and more, our benefits are flexible, aligned to our core values and supports the various nee
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