Legal Assistant

5 months ago

Toronto, Canada WEL Partners Full time

We are seeking an exceptional intermediate **Litigation Legal Assistant. **In this position, you will be the dynamic, organized, right-hand person to our Litigation Team. You will be an exceptional listener, great note-taker, knowledgeable and calm professional. And you will need incredibly strong organizational and computer skills.

We are looking for someone with litigation experience. Someone who is used to handling important duties in a professional environment. We want someone who can bring a positive attitude to any situation, especially when things get busy. Being able to laugh at yourself helps everyone get through challenging situations.

Experience and knowledge of Litigation procedures is essential.

**RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE**:

- Working with lawyers and clerks to prepare court pleadings and proceedings.
- Review and process electronic and paper litigation files.
- Assist in the development and implementation of best practices for file management.
- Support all levels of document management including setting up and maintaining electronic database.
- Reviewing documents and recording matters to be brought forward.
- Other office functions including service and filing of documents, searches, research, preparing correspondence, documents and papers from transcription.

**SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS MUST HAVE**:

- At least 3 years of direct, practical experience in a litigation law firm environment, or a law clerk or legal assistant certificate, diploma or degree.
- Good understanding of civil litigation and ability to prepare court documents required in a ligation procedure in Ontario.
- Experience with ACL would be beneficial.
- Knowledge of Caselines and familiarity with filing and submitting documents electronically to the Court important
- Knowledge of Zoom scheduling.
- Superior time-management and organization skills—ability to balance working on several projects, demonstrating proficiency in time management and prioritizing tasks.
- Strong typing, self-editing and excellent organizational skills (both filing and scheduling and bringing forward matters).
- Excellent communication skills—both written and oral—strong attention to detail to produce accurate work.
- Good interpersonal skills to enable effective interaction within a law firm environment.
- Strong computer skills including MS Office: Word, Outlook, and Excel.
- PCLaw or other accounting program experience would be great, but not a pre-requisite - training will be provided.
- An interest in working in a professional law firm environment is a must.

**Everyone wants an opportunity to continue to learn and to grow.** We expect to cultivate the skills of our employees and that is what we are looking for - someone who is interested in developing their skills and getting promoted within the Firm.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: $45,000.00-$60,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Extended health care

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

COVID-19 considerations:
All recommended COVID-19 protections are in place.

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Toronto, ON M4V 1K9: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

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