Paralegal

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Skills and Abilities

Work setting
- Company legal department
Tasks
- Advise clients on legal proceedings
- Assemble documentary evidence in preparation for trial
- Co-ordinate administrative services
- Draft contracts, prepare promissory notes and draw up wills, mortgages and other legal documents
- Interview clients, witnesses and other related parties
- Perform clerical duties, such as maintain filing systems
- Write trial briefs
- Prepare wills, real estate transactions and other legal documents, court reports and affidavits
- Research records, court files and other legal documents
- Schedule court trials
- Arrange pre-trial conferences and hearings
- Assist lawyers in preparation for mediation and judicial dispute resolutions
- Draft legal correspondence
- Oversee maintenance of judicial court records
Certificates, licences, memberships, and coursesﾠ
- In-house training from a law firm or law clerk program
Computer and technology knowledge
- Spreadsheet
- Database management
- Legal software applications
- MS Office
- Database
- Information management system
- MS Excel
- MS Word
Court experience
- Federal Court
- Federal Supreme Court
- Provincial and Territorial Court
- Provincial Supreme Court
- Territorial Supreme Court
- Appeals
- Trials
- Hearings
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Attention to detail
- Large caseload
Screening questions
- Do you have experience working in this field?
Financial benefits
- Bonus
Other benefits
- Paid time off (volunteering or personal days)