Legal Assistant supporting Wills and Estates at Lerners law firm in London, Ontario. Involves client communication, document preparation, and administrative support for legal proceedings.
About the role
- Law Clerk providing litigation support tasks for a large federal agency. Engaging in complex legal research and assisting in legal documentation.
Responsibilities
- CGS is seeking a Law Clerk to join our team supporting the legal mission of a large federal agency.
- This position will allow candidates to demonstrate expertise in providing litigation support tasks like cite checking, document review, legal research, and numerous other relevant tasks.
- Works under the direction of a Project Supervisor or Project Manager.
- Performs complex legal research for the trial staff.
- Assists in preparing draft legal documents, such as motions, briefs, memoranda of law, etc.
- Reviews and conducts research for ROI (Release of Information)
- Reviews new cases and conducts research of pertinent laws
- Edits previously submitted final decisions and writes/researches legal opinions on newest case
- Edits and reviews cases for issuance
- Responds to citizen letters
- Reviews AMICUS briefs
- Briefs attorneys regarding legal issues, theories and draft statement of facts.
- Assisting attorneys with all phases of litigation.
- Cite checking via online legal research tools (Westlaw and Lexis) and blue book.
Requirements
- Requires Juris Doctor (JD) degree, or currently attending an ABA-accredited law school, having completed at least one year of study or, an equivalent level of legal training or experience or an equivalent level of education may be substituted.
- Requires sound working knowledge of federal and state court systems, legal research procedures, and legal research resources.
- Thorough knowledge of legal research tools such as LEXIS and Westlaw.
- Extensive experience with cite checking and blue book.
- Experience performing complex legal research.
- Must have hands-on familiarity with a variety of computer applications, including word processing, databases (such as document review and file management systems), spreadsheets, and imaging.
- Ability to consistently deliver highest quality work under extreme pressure will be very important.
- Ideally, you will also have:
- Experience working in a Government and/or Litigation Support environment in conjunction with basic qualifications, preferred.
- Experience with Relativity, strongly preferred and should be referenced within resume.
- Publication of legal writings highly preferred.
- Participation in Law Review highly preferred.
- Current or active clearance.
Benefits
- Health, Dental, and Vision
- Life Insurance
- 401k
- Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter)
- Paid Time Off and Observance of State/Federal Holidays
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