Legal Assistant jobs in Canada

Job Description

McCarthy Tétrault is a Canadian law firm that offers a full suite of legal and business solutions to clients in Canada and around the world. At McCarthy Tétrault, we offer challenging and rewarding career opportunities in our offices in Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Calgary and Vancouver. We are delighted to have been selected for the eleventh consecutive year in 2023 as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers and to have earned the distinction of one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers for the thirteenth consecutive year in 2025. Our culture is built on professional excellence, collaboration, innovation, thought leadership and entrepreneurialism. We embrace inclusion in all its forms and we provide the tools and opportunities to help our people develop to their full potential.

We are recruiting for a Legal Assistant, IP to join our team in our Vancouver office. The successful candidate must have a minimum of 5 years’ experience as a legal assistant in an Intellectual Property group, and will be responsible for filing patent, trademark, industrial design, and copyright applications with Canadian Intellectual Property Office, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and other administrative functions. McCarthy Tétrault employees benefit from a hybrid work environment.

Salary range (Vancouver Only) : $70,000 - $80,000 annually

The offered salary may vary based on the candidate’s job-specific knowledge, skills, and experience.

As a Legal Assistant, Intellectual Property, you will be :

Documents

• Drafting and preparing correspondence, including standard letters and memos, working with Word and Excel templates.
• Editing, formatting, printing, and revising letters, memos, reports, forms, labels and other printed material from dictation or other instructions.
• Filing patent, trademark, industrial design, and copyright applications with Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) via fax, courier, and CIPO online tools, including generation of cover letters, and fax cover sheets.
• Filing patent and trademark applications with United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) using USPTO online tools.
• Filing Madrid trademark applications with World Intellectual Property (WIPO) using WIPO online tools.
• Liaising with foreign agents to file patent and trademark applications in other countries.
• Weekly monitoring of Trademarks Journal for advertisement of applications and generation of reporting correspondence.

File and Time Management

Administrative Functions

As our ideal candidate, you will have :

As a member of the McCarthy team, you will have access to :

How to Apply :

We encourage external candidates to apply online and internal applicants must apply directly through our internal careers portal on Espresso. We look forward to receiving your application.

We thank all applicants for their interest in McCarthy Tétrault; however, only chosen applicants will be contacted. We regret that we are unable to respond to individual inquiries about application status. McCarthy Tétrault is an equal opportunity employer that fosters an inclusive, equitable, and accessible environment. Please notify us if you require accommodation at any time during the recruitment process.

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