Legal Assistant
2 weeks ago
Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 32 to 40 hours per week
- Education:
- Expérience:
**Education**:
- College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
- or equivalent experience
**Work setting**:
- General law practice
- Business or corporate law
- Willing to relocate
- Legal firm
- Delivery and courier service
- Business services
**Tasks**:
- Schedule and confirm appointments
- Maintain filing system
- Determine and establish office procedures and routines
- Prepare and key in correspondence and legal documents
- Review and proofread documents and correspondence to ensure compliance with legal procedures and grammatical usage
- Perform basic bookkeeping tasks
- Type and proofread correspondence, forms and other documents
- Manage contracts
- Complete legal documentation
- Prepare invoices and bank deposits
- Plan, direct and evaluate the activities of firms and departments that develop and implement advertising campaigns to promote the sales of products and services
- Direct and evaluate establishments and departments that publicize activities and events on behalf of businesses, governments and other organizations
- Draft legal correspondence
**Supervision**:
- 1 to 2 people
**Target audience**:
- Immigrants
- College/University students
- International students
**Computer and technology knowledge**:
- PCLaw in the Cloud
- MS Word
- MS Office
- Electronic mail
- MS Excel
- MS Outlook
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Windows
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
**Area of work experience**:
- Contracts
- Correspondence
- Invoices
- Immigration
**Area of specialization**:
- Legal services
- Customs services
**Transportation/travel information**:
- Valid driver's licence
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Attention to detail
- Large caseload
- Large workload
**Personal suitability**:
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Ability to multitask
- Initiative
- Flexibility
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
**Screening questions**:
- Are you currently a student?
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- What is your current field of study?
**Experience**:
- 1 year to less than 2 years
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