Review Counsel

Review Counsel

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Job Summary
The Faculty of Law seeks a dynamic lawyer with experience in administrative litigation and dealing with social justice issues who is committed to serving clients within the Kingston community. The incumbent will have a passion for mentoring and positively contributing to the learning environment for students.

Reporting to the Director of Queen’s Legal Aid, Review Counsel is responsible for the delivery of clinical legal education to Queen’s Law students and the provision of professional services to clients, including participating in community education and development.

Queen’s Legal Aid (QLA) is part of the Queen’s Law Clinics (QLC), which are year-round legal clinics providing legal services and clinical education programming. Law students at the QLC provide legal services and information without charge to low-income individuals involved in the justice system. As a clinical education program, the QLC provides experiential learning opportunities to more than a hundred law students each year.

Review Counsel is governed by the Law Society of Ontario, the regulatory body for all Ontario-based lawyers, and must personally practice in compliance with the Law Society Act, the Legal Aid Services Act, 2020 and the Solicitors Act, as well as the provincial Rules of Professional Conduct. In coordination with the Director, QLA, Review Counsel has responsibility for clinic compliance with these same statutes and rules.

**Job Description**:
**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Represent clients before courts and tribunals including before all levels of court in Ontario.
- Assume complete professional responsibility for all aspects of clients’ legal files in matters including criminal law, Small Claims Court and employment law matters, as well as litigation before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, the Landlord & Tenant Board, and the Social Benefits Tribunal.
- Supervise and teach law students in an experiential legal education environment in accordance with professional standards. This includes preparing students for their duties, reviewing file work, providing performance appraisals, developing client management skills and other support as needed.
- Counsel students personally and professionally to ensure the quality of clinic services, including teaching, guiding legal research, scrutinizing legal writing, drafting legal opinions, and professional correspondence, monitoring client and file management techniques, ensuring adherence to deadlines and undertakings, and assisting students with their appearances before courts and tribunals, including attending trials and hearings, when required.
- Secure client work for QLA, promote QLA to students and future clients through presentations to various organizations providing supports for members of the community.
- Monitor professional services delivered by QLA, including adherence to all applicable statutes and rules, and the timely delivery of competent professional legal services to all of QLA’s clients.
- Maintain direct carriage of QLA files, including conducting trials or hearings.
- In coordination with the Director, QLA, oversee clinic operational and administrative matters, including compliance with guidelines, policies and procedures, analyzing data and deciding the scope and nature of QLA activities.
- Develop curriculum and required materials, teach courses, and engage law students in classroom discussions.
- Provide input and support to the Director, QLA on course program delivery and activities as required.
- Maintain expertise in the areas law relevant to QLA, including residential tenancies law, social benefits appeals, criminal and provincial offences, civil matters in the Small Claims Court, employment issues, and human rights matters, including researching case law and related statutes and regulations relevant to these areas of legal practice
- Participate in continuing legal education programs and personal professional development to develop and maintain skills in pedagogy relating to clinical legal education.
- Ensure the provision of community legal education, law reform activities and legal support to clients and client groups as required, including:

- Produce materials for community education in the form of pamphlets, articles, manuals, self-help kits and digital resources;
- Participate in the development and organization of outreach programmes for specific groups.
- Act as a resource person in various community organizations.
- Prepare legal briefs and other law reform activities.
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