Legal Assistant jobs in Canada

Dentons is designed to be different. Our firm leads the way in a rapidly changing legal marketplace. We challenge the status quo and deliver consistent results as well as uncompromising quality and value to our clients. Our global presence is renowned as a firm with over 21,000 individuals in more than 200 offices serving clients across 80+ countries.

Dentons Canada is committed to its people and communities. We are consistently recognized as an employer of choice having received numerous awards including being selected as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers (2025); Canada’s Top Employers for Young People (2025), and Canada’s Best Diversity Employers (2025).

This role is an opportunity for you to join Canada's global law firm, a firm that offers opportunities to build your career while growing your skills and deepening your expertise.

POSITION SUMMARY

We are seeking a dynamic, detail-oriented and professional Corporate Executive/Legal Assistant to join our corporate team. This role requires a confident, proactive, and business-minded individual who is highly reliable and adaptable to shifting priorities. The ideal candidate will possess strong administrative and organizational skills, along with the interest and initiative to contribute to business development efforts. A primary responsibility of this opportunity will be working closely with a senior partner on our Canada Regional Board, contributing to the firm’s growth strategy by helping to cultivate and maintain client relationships.

As a member of our team, you will play an essential role in managing the legal and administrative functions of the practice. You are a self-starter—personable, organized, and detail-oriented—with a strong client-first mindset. You bring a willingness to learn, grow, and take on new challenges, always striving for excellence in your work. Confident, reliable, and solution-oriented, you value frequent, open communication and understand that the best results come from collaboration. You thrive in a team environment where individual strengths come together to achieve shared success.

This is a unique and exciting opportunity to broaden your skillset in an executive capacity, with a reduced focus on legal administrative tasks and greater emphasis on developing client relationship and business development skills.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the partner with business development tasks, including scheduling meetings, travel agendas, coordinating client lunches and events, and arranging gift distributions.
• Provide client development support by managing and enhancing the partner’s LinkedIn presence, including drafting and scheduling posts, engaging with client and industry content, monitoring interactions, and identifying strategic networking opportunities to strengthen professional visibility and support business growth.
• Manage the client intake process including arranging conflict searches, drafting and proofreading engagement letters and routine correspondence
• Proactively support practice management initiatives including time entry oversight, managing the monthly billing cycle in collaboration with billing coordinator and implementing firm best practices in financial and client management
• Coordinate and facilitate administrative tasks, such as scheduling appointments and meetings, preparing materials for client interactions, and working with internal departments to deliver client-facing documents.
• Respond to client inquiries promptly and professionally, manage follow-up activities, and ensure lawyers are kept informed of client interactions during their absence.
• Maintain and regularly update client/matter lists, electronic files, and client contact records in compliance with Dentons’ documentation standards.
• Demonstrate a strong team approach, uphold strict confidentiality, and maintain accountability for both internal and external communications to support the goals of the corporate department and the firm.
• Perform other duties as assigned, with a proactive and positive attitude.

REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum of 4+ years of legal administrative work experience
• Excellent technical proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and aptitude for learning new systems and technology
• Excellent organizational/follow up skills; attention to detail, proof reading and accuracy are required
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Passion for working in a team environment, willing to help others
• Ability to produce a high quality of work, occasionally under tight timelines
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written)
• Knowledge of accounting and data management systems (i.e. Elite and iManage) preferred but not required
• Strong grammatical skills, including punctuation and proofreading, attention to detail and accuracy are a must
• Demonstrated commitment to privacy and ethical conduct
• Legal Administration Certificate (preferred but not required)

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

The expected salary range for this role is $62,000 - $75,000, commensurate with experience. At Dentons we are committed to offering equitable and competitive pay, we achieve this by aligning internal salary ranges for specific roles to similar positions in the external market. In the normal course, our practice is to hire, transfer and promote employees within the entry part of our range, adjusting as needed based on the prior experience, skills and competencies required for the role along with any market differentials.

Recognizing our exceptional talent means providing a comprehensive total rewards package beyond a competitive salary. We have curated our employee benefits portfolio to offer inclusive and comprehensive wellbeing and developmental programs for our people. With extended benefits and mental health plans, paid time off, savings plans, fitness subsidy, parental leave top up and more, our benefits are flexible, aligned to our core values and supports the various needs of our people. Additionally, our personal and professional development programs include people networks, mentorships, and leadership series programming to help people grow their career.

Note: Availability of the benefits and perks may be subject to your location and employment type and may have certain eligibility requirements. Dentons reserves the right to alter these programs and offerings in whole or in part at any time without advance notice.

Equal Opportunity Statement

At Dentons Canada, inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility (IDEA) are not just ancillary values, they are foundational to our business. We believe that IDEA is essential to the shared success of our team and our clients. Our forward-thinking and inclusive culture supports the professional development of all our people, enhances the leading services we offer to our clients, and informs our commitment to make a positive impact in the communities where we live and work. As a testament to our commitment to IDEA, we have been recognized as one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employer’s for 14 consecutive years (2011-2024), as well as one of Canada’s Top Employers for Young People (2024) for the seventh time.

Dentons Canada is an equal opportunity employer, and we welcome your application. All employment decisions, including hiring, will be made without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, colour, creed, disability, ethnic origin, family status, gender identity, marital status, place of origin, race, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable human rights legislation.

We are committed to providing you with an inclusive, barrier-free, and accessible workplace to support your success. Should you require accommodation during the recruitment process, for example as a result of a disability, please contact us at careers.canada@dentons.com .