Family Law Assistant

2 weeks ago

Mississauga, Canada KMB Law Full time

Our law firm, founded in 1979, has grown quickly and successfully. Today, it is a leading full service law firm with comprehensive offering of legal services. What has not changed over the years is our focus on providing our clients with high quality solutions to their legal concerns. We pride ourselves on providing advice that is responsive, innovative, and workable in the real world. We are raising the bar every day here.

Beyond that, we believe in individual initiative that supports our shared goal of excellence in law both in Canada and internationally.

We are seeking a **Family Law Assistant, dedicated to supporting 3 lawyers **and with at **least 2 years of experience. **The role will be responsible for a wide variety of administrative duties.

**Primary Responsibilities**:

- Produce and edit legal documents including: letters, memos, faxes and agreements.
- Draft correspondence for approval by the Professionals.
- Proofread and edit all documentation for grammar, spelling, and content accuracy.
- Keeping on top of court dates and deadlines.
- Organize client files and maintain up-to-date file system, including electronic documents in Prolaw and Divorcemate.
- Assist with general practice management, including maintaining due dates, oversee calendar appointment/meeting bookings for lawyers.
- Assist with billing accounts.
- Provide back-up coverage to the group during absences, and assist with overflow work, when required.
- Other administrative duties as required.

**Requirements**:

- 2+ years of work **experience in litigation**:

- Good understanding of legal reference materials, procedures, and legal filing systems.
- Knowledge and understanding of the statutes of **Family Law rules and court filing procedures** is a strong asset.
- Anticipating next steps to keep files moving;
- organized in administrative duties such as filing and transcribing dictation.
- Experienced and knowledgeable in MS Office, Divorcemate, including support calculations and, if possible, ProLaw case and document management.
- Excellent oral and writing skills, including proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation for complex documentation.
- Superior time management skills, multitasking skills, and the ability to prioritize tasks with mínimal supervision.
- Professional, responsive, and positive work attitude is critical.
- Able to maintain filing systems and basic databases.
- Strong administrative, organizational and prioritization skills.
- Confident, dependable team player with initiative.

**Must have** a careful attention to detail, strong research skills, be extremely organized and work with mínimal instruction and supervision. This assistant will be working for a team of three lawyers, so multitasking is also key to this position.

The firm is located in the Square One area of Mississauga. We offer competitive salaries, benefits and a friendly environment with lots of innovation and exciting changes coming up Be part of that change with us

**Salary**: $40,000.00-$55,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- RRSP match
- Vision care
- Wellness program

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Overtime pay

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