Corporate Services Legal Assistant

Cartel Agency Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Excellent benefits

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Aird and Berlis LLP in Toronto is seeking a Corporate Services Legal Assistant with a minimum of two years of legal assistant experience. You’ll join a friendly group of Corporate Law Clerks to support day-to-day organization, document preparation, and file maintenance.

This role offers variety, strong colleagues, and growth opportunities. The firm provides a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and real opportunities for career development within a team that values your contributions.

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years’ previous legal assistant experience or completion of a legal assistant program.
• Thorough knowledge of corporate statutes or willingness to learn.
• Able to work in the office.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office 365, Corplink, MinuteBox, eCore and Adobe Acrobat.
• Strong verbal and written communication; problem solving and good judgement.

Responsibilities

• Work with corporate legal documents using established precedents.
• Generate directors’, officers’ and shareholders’ ledgers and registers in a corporate database.
• Prepare standard correspondence using established precedents.
• Familiar with government forms such as registrations, annual returns and notices of change.
• Input and maintain corporate records in a corporate database.
• Minute book and general filing.
• Handle administrative details with respect to accounting, filing, docketing and expenses.
• Willingness to work occasional overtime to meet project delivery requirements.
• Accountable for all work assigned; take initiative; maintain confidentiality.

Skills

Strong verbal and written comms

Problem solving

Judgement and decision making

Education

Post-secondary legal assistant or law clerk program

Tools

Microsoft Office 365

Corplink

MinuteBox

eCore

Adobe Acrobat

Job description

Corporate Services Legal Assistant

We’re looking for a Corporate Services Legal Assistant to join a fantastic team at one of Toronto’s well-known law firms. If you have a minimum of two years legal assistant experience and are looking for a role where you’ll feel like part of the team, this could be a great fit! You’ll be working closely with a friendly group of Corporate Law Clerks, helping with the day-to-day organization and keeping things running smoothly. It’s a role with variety, great people around you, and plenty of opportunity to learn and grow. The firm offers a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and real opportunities for career development, all within a team that values the work you bring to the table.

Key Responsibilities

• 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

Qualifications

• 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
• 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

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