Foreclosure & Collections Lawyer

**Full-time Chambers Lawyer - Foreclosure and Collections (Technology Background Preferred)**

**Richards & Richards Law Offices**

**Salary $80,000 - 120,000 depending on experience plus extended benefits, continuing education, and free parking.**

Richards & Richards is a debt collection law firm located near the Guildford Mall in Surrey, BC. Steps away from transit and shops, our close-knit team specializes in all aspects of debt collection and foreclosures. We strive to help our employees maintain a healthy work/life balance, providing personal days, social events for staff and tuition allowances to help continue education.

You will also be highly competent in the Management of Assignments, managing your own case load as well as working closely in support of assignment work of legal assistants and agent law firms to ensure overall targets of the department are met. In the future you have an interest in, and an aptitude for, developing team proficiencies and have a conviction that our type of law is best practiced in an iterative way to achieve efficiency and constraint targets.

Regular attendance at Master‘s and Judge’s Supreme Court Chambers is required.

For more than 35 years Richards & Richards have focused on the collection of consumer debt and receivables management. We work for original lenders, debt buyers, forwarders, private investors, financial institutions, credit card companies and mortgage investment companies. We are referred foreclosure and enforcement work by other lawyers and collection professionals. We have lawyers, realtors, process servers, and property managers in every part of British Columbia. All aspects of our client service and professional conduct are built on a foundation of hard work and creativity. We believe the single most important attribute that our lawyers, staff and others can have is integrity.

We are looking for a lawyer who prefers process and technology over traditional legal service models. You will find a place to innovate here - perhaps disruptively so.
- **Essential Job Duties**_
- Carrying out written and telephone communications with clients
- Providing daily reception duties including phone coverage and greeting clients
- Preparing reporting letters
- Assisting with client billings, invoicing and follow up notifications
- Handling associated filing and administrative tasks

**Skills, Abilities & Knowledge**
- Legal Assistant certification from a recognized institution
- One year of experience in a BC law office
- One to two years of reception or office support experience
- Excellent word processing skills (MS Word).
- Ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously, with strong planning skills.

As an organization we provide an environment where employees are treated well, and competitive salaries and benefits are offered. We provide benefits after 3 months of continuous work. We believe that continuing legal education and membership in associations is important, the firm will pay for your firm related education expenses and membership dues on a pre-approved basis. Vacation will accrue at 2 weeks per year. Background (credit check) and criminal records checks are required prior to the beginning of employment.

If you are a technology-minded lawyer and looking for a unique opportunity with a bright future please forward your resume and cover letter to Richards & Richards Law Office c/o Rebecca Miller, Core Elements HR Inc.

**Salary**: $80,000.00-$120,000.00 per year

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Work Location: In person