Position title
Legal Assistant - Real Estate and Wills & Estates - outside of Victoria BC
Description
Our client in a small town outside of Victoria, BC (south) is looking for one or more legal assistants with at least 5 years of real estate experience as well as Wills & Estates experience to join their team. The ideal candidate has a mature outlook coupled with a customer service background and excellent time management skills. The successful candidate must possess a legal assistant certificate from an accredited program and have prior law firm experience.
This opportunity is intended to be full-time. Flex-time and part-time may be available initially with full intention to grow into full-time.
Responsibilities
The role includes:
- initial support to senior paralegals transitioning to retirement.
- support to lawyers practising in a variety of areas of law.
- experience in preparation of a variety of legal forms and documents, including professional correspondence.
- filing, handling phone calls/emails, scheduling appointments, accepting forms of payments and other various administrative tasks routinely performed by legal assistants.
- Ability to work independently within the office and remotely when required.
Qualifications
Desired Skills:
- Outstanding interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
- Microsoft Office Suite, especially Word and Outlook.
- Knowledge of legal document production programs such as Econvey, Alf, Divorce Mate or other similar programs.
- Knowledge of trust accounting rules and responsibilities.
- Familiarity with Supreme Court Rules (British Columbia or comparable).
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize work and meet quickly changing deadlines.
- Able to efficiently prepare, compile and organize legal and administrative correspondence and documents.
- Comfortable to liaison with court services and agents.
- Honest, reliable, mature, and self-directed.
Helpful skills:
- Prior use of Excel and Adobe.
