Full-time Law Clerk (Real Estate & Corporate)

Emerge Law is powered by people, creativity, and innovation with an extremely supportive culture. We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join our team as a law clerk who will assist with real estate and corporate matters.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting the lawyers within the firm
• Real estate:
  • Assisting residential and commerical real estate files from start to finish;
  • Tasks could involve preparing requisition letters, closing documents, ongoing correspondence, reviewing surveys, and various other administrative tasks related to these files.
• Corporate:
  • General corporate maintenance, registrations, due diligence, searches, and corporate filings;
  • Proofreading various documents, document preparation, and organization;
  • Assisting structuring and restructuring transactions.
• Bookkeeping:
  • Accounts payables and accounts receivables;
  • Law society reporting;
  • Receive and deposit of trust funds;
  • Issuance of payments;
  • Client ledgers;

Skills and Qualifications :

• 1+ years of experience working for a law firm and at least 1 year experience working as a law clerk;
• Law clerk diploma/paralegal license is an asset but not a requirement;
• Some background in accounting or bookkeeping;
• Basic knowledge of corporate legislation, OBCA, and CBCA;
• Familiarity with Teraview, Telus Assyst, Unity, FCT, and CosmoLex;
• Exceptional communication, multi-tasking, and organization skills;
• Attention to detail is very important and the ability to handle a large volume of files.

Here’s how to apply:

Interested candidates are asked to submit the following materials via email. Address it to Hiring Manager:

• Short description of what you think makes a great lawyer;
• resume; and
• copies of official academic transcripts.

At Emerge LLP, we are committed to building and fostering an environment where our people feel included and valued. We strongly encourage applications from racialized communities, Indigenous peoples, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities to come to join our awesome team!

We are also committed to accommodating people with disabilities as part of our hiring process. If you have special requirements, please advise us during the recruitment process.