Solicitor (Corporate)

Solicitor (Corporate)

**Job Number**:2072

**Job Type**: Temporary Full-Time
**Temp Contract Length**: 9 months
**Location**: 150 Frederick St - Regional Admin Headquarters
**Job Category**: Legal Services
**Number of Positions**:1
**Department**: Corporate
**Division**: Planning, Development and Legislative Services
**Hours of Work**: 35
**Union**: Management/Management Support
**Grade**: Management/Management Support Grade 09
**Salary Range**: $66.62 - $83.27 per hour**About Us**

The Region of Waterloo is a thriving, diverse community committed to fostering opportunities for current and future generations. Home to over 674,000 residents and expected to grow to nearly one million by 2051. Guided by our 2023-2027 Strategic Plan, “Growing with Care,” we focus on equity, inclusion, and sustainability. Our mission is to provide essential services that enhance the quality of life for all residents, while our core values emphasize caring for people and the land we share. Join us and be part of a team dedicated to making a meaningful difference in our community.

Dish with One Spoon Wampum:
- Waterloo Region is part of the Dish with One Spoon wampum, a treaty guiding our commitment to:
- Recognizing our shared humanity and land
- Taking only what we need
- Leaving some for others
- Keeping the dish clean
- This agreement underpins our vision, mission, and core values, and reinforces our dedication to meaningful reconciliation and equity.**The Role**
- Provides legal advice, services, and recommended courses of action to Regional Council and Committees, and staff. Protects and advances the corporation’s legal interests by advocating and defending its position in negotiations with external parties and stakeholders. Ensures the Region’s actions, policies, programs, and regulations are legal, enforceable, and functional within the existing political and legal system. Participates in corporate decision-making bodies, and negotiates and drafts legal documents to implement Council decisions.

**Duties/Responsibilities**
- Supervises a Legal Assistant, and assigns work to other administrative staff. Directs, monitors, and advises retained outside Counsel for assigned area of responsibility.
- Provides legal advice, services, and recommended courses of action regarding real estate, planning, corporate, and commercial matters to client departments and affiliated organizations.
- Attends assigned Council and Committee meetings and provides legal advice, opinions, recommendations for action, information pertaining to legal matters, and services to Council, Committees, and staff.
- Provides leadership and participates in recommending new practices, policies, and initiatives.
- Ensures legal services provided do not contain material errors that could create potential liability for the Region.
- Exercises discretionary judgement regarding legal advice. Develops and implements proactive strategies, and anticipates and identifies legal issues to protect the Region’s interests.
- Advises on, drafts, and reviews contracts/agreements, leases, licenses, precedents, and original compositions, including term negotiations; researching and synthesizing information; analyzing impacts on the Region’s interests; and conducting inter-departmental consultations.
- Has carriage of residential and commercial real estate transactions and corporate and commercial transactions related to financing, postponements, assignments, discharges, purchases, sales, and amalgamations. Provides legal advice, and reviews, drafts, and negotiates documentation. Reviews external parties’ documentation, reviews title searches and surveys to identify issues, reviews due diligence searches, and negotiates legal documents related to transactions. Liaises with and ensures governmental requirements are met. Supervises the preparation and coordination of legal documents and approvals. Resolves legal issues with lenders, property owners/their counsel, and government bodies.
- Supervises and authorizes funding for real estate and corporate transactions, legislative holdbacks, and release of performance bonds.

**Additional Duties/Responsibilities**
- Ensures the Region’s compliance with applicable legislation, regulatory requirements, by-laws, policies. Ensures compliance with Law Society of Ontario Rules and Professional Conduct and by-laws related to legal practice.
- Updates precedents for use in contracts and legal documents, and contributes to continuous improvement, procedures, and processes relating to file management and completion.
- Provides solicitor-client privilege to the Region for communications between the solicitor and the Region and maintains confidentiality of legal records and information.
- Participates on project teams and meetings to provide legal input and advice.
- Responds to complex, politically sensitive freedom of information requests with legal implications, on behalf of the information and privacy team. Pulls records and p