Knowledge/Experience

• Communicates in a professional manner with lawyers, clients and other team members;
• Has strong organizational skills with high attention to detail and accuracy;
• The ability to work within tight timelines and meet deadlines;
• Must have advanced skills in Microsoft Word; formatting with styles, proper use of paragraph numbering, cross referencing, blacklining and track changes;
• Transcribe from electronic dictation;
• Open and closing physical and electronic files;
• Maintain, organize and keep current electronic and physical client files.

Legal Specific

• Graduated with a legal assistant diploma at an accredited school;
• Must have at least 2 years’ experience working within securities law;
• Working knowledge of Closings – preparing agendas, closing documents and closing books;
• Experience with filing documents on SEDAR is an asset, but not required;
• Performing due diligence searches;
• Familiar with audit inquiries;
• Knowledge of a legal accounting program such as Aderant, Esilaw and/or PCLaw;