Legal Assistant

Location

Vancouver, BC | Canada

Job description

Description

The Team

The litigation legal assistant will provide direct support to a team of three lawyers.

The Role

The successful candidate will be responsible for the preparation of correspondence, litigation documents and pleadings and attending to their electronic filing; updating pleadings and trial binders; setting discoveries, trials, and applications; and various other related duties.

This is a permanent full-time non-exempt position. Work schedule to be determined with onsite presence of 5 days a week in the office required.

Key Responsibilities

• Preparation and production of a variety of legal documents, with accuracy, in the area of litigation;
• Attending to file openings, preparation and management;
• Preparation of daily correspondence;
• Entering time and working with the billing department, as required;
• Performing online searches and filings through BC Online/BC Registries;
• Proofreading of typed material for grammatical, typographical, or spelling errors;
• Maintaining an efficient bring forward/follow-up system;
• Carrying out other general administrative tasks as required by the firm.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Legal Assistant Certification from an accredited institution or the equivalent;
• Minimum of 3 to 5 years' experience as a legal assistant in the area of litigation with knowledge and understanding of the B.C Supreme Court Rules;
• Solid understanding of law office procedures;
• Strong computer skills in the area of Microsoft Suite;
• iManage, 3E experience would be an asset;
• Prior experience with dictation(dicta-typing);
• Rigor and attention to detail;
• Great organization and prioritization skills;
• Handling and prioritizing workload while working under pressure of tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment;
• Behaving in a professional manner with lawyers, clients, and other team members at all levels;
• Team-spirit, strong sense of collaboration and positive, "can-do" attitude.

The Firm

Clyde & Co is a leading global law firm, specialising in the sectors that underpin global trade and commercial activity, namely: insurance, transport, construction, energy, trade, and commodities. It is globally integrated, offering a comprehensive range of contentious and non-contentious legal services and commercially-minded legal advice to businesses operating across the world. Clyde & Co is committed to operating in a responsible way. This means progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of its communities and clients, using its legal skills to support its communities through pro bono work, volunteering, and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment. The firm has 480 partners, 2400 lawyers, 3200 legal professionals and 5000 people overall in over 60 offices and associated offices worldwide.

Our Values

Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for our clients and our firm. We:

• Work as one We are a globally connected team of talented people who act with a firm-first mentality to achieve success
• Excel with clients We aim high and challenge ourselves to deliver unique excellence for our clients, keeping them at the centre of everything we do
• Celebrate difference We help each other to be at our best and believe our differences result in greater achievement
• Act boldly We seek new opportunities, take action, and learn as we go, recognising that curiosity drives our development and contributes to growth

Business Services Competencies

Clyde & Co is committed to providing extensive, personal, and professional development opportunities for our people enabling them to be highly effective in their current role as well as assisting them to fulfil their career aspirations.

The competencies are used to inform all aspects of Business Services career development. They vary across levels and different business areas and fall under the following areas:

• Technical Excellence
• People and Team
• Client/Stakeholder Relationships
• Service Delivery and Commercial Awareness
• Personal Effectiveness

This is the job description as constituted at present; however the Firm reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.

-Principals Only-

We offer a rewarding work environment that supports professional growth and opportunities. We value diversity in our work place and it is the policy of the Firm to recruit, hire, promote, reassign, compensate and train highly qualified persons without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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