Description:
Aird & Berlis LLP is looking for a Corporate Services Legal Assistant to support a team of Law Clerks and contribute to the overall excellent level of service provided to our clients. The ideal candidate should be someone who takes pride in their work, is detail oriented, reliable, highly organized and has the ability to handle multiple priorities.
Responsibilities:
Assisting the Corporate Law Clerks with the following tasks (but not limited to):
- Working with corporate legal documents (i.e. resolutions and related minute book materials, including share certificates and corporate information sheets) using established precedents
- Generating directors’, officers’ and shareholders’ ledgers and registers within a corporate database
- Preparation of standard correspondence as required using established precedents
- Familiar with various government forms i.e., business name registrations, partnership registrations, limited partnership registrations, extra-provincial applications, notices of change and annual returns
- Input and maintenance of corporate records and information in accordance with standard procedures within a corporate database
- Minute book and general filing
- Handle administrative details with respect to accounting, opening and closing files, docketing and expenses
- Willingness to work the occasional overtime to meet the project delivery requirements
- Accountable for all work assigned
- Take initiative
- Confidential
Requirements:
- Minimum of two years’ previous legal assistant experience, preferably with corporate knowledge or successful completion of post-secondary program in a legal assistant or law clerk program
- Thorough knowledge, understanding and ability to apply working knowledge of the relevant corporate statutes or willingness to learn
- Able to work in the office
Skills:
- Microsoft Office 365 suite of applications, Corplink, MinuteBox, eCore, and Adobe Acrobat
- Strong verbal and written communication
- Ability to problem solve
- Good judgement and decision making
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Organized
- Resourceful
- Detailed