Overview

- Job Duration: Permanent
- Language of Work: English
- Hours of Work: 30 to 40 hours per week
- Education:
- Experience:
Education
- College/CEGEP
Tasks
- Advise clients on intellectual property matters and represent clients before the Registrar of Trade-Marks
- Advise clients on legal proceedings
- Assemble documentary evidence in preparation for trial
- Be responsible for the administration of the estate and the distribution of assets
- Co-ordinate administrative services
- Draft contracts, prepare promissory notes and draw up wills, mortgages and other legal documents
- Handle probate to certify the validity of a will
- Help in preparing and completing applications for simple joint and uncontested divorces, domestic contracts and name changes
- Interview clients, witnesses and other related parties
- Issue subpoenas, summonses and warrants
- Perform clerical duties, such as maintain filing systems
- Represent clients before administrative tribunals and boards regarding criminal driving offences
- Take legal action on landlord and tenant matters
- Write trial briefs
- Administer oaths and take affidavits and depositions
- Establish work priorities for court staff
- Prepare wills, real estate transactions and other legal documents, court reports and affidavits
- Receive affidavits, declarations and affirmations
- Represent clients at proceedings before the Trade Marks Opposition Board and in related proceedings
- Represent clients in small claims court and in other lower court proceedings, at tribunals and before administrative bodies




- Administer oaths
- Advise on the registrability of trademarks, trademark licensing requirements, transfer of intellectual property and protection of existing trademark rights
- Research records, court files and other legal documents
- Schedule court trials
- Arrange pre-trial conferences and hearings
- Assist lawyers in preparation for mediation and judicial dispute resolutions
- Conduct bail hearings
- Represent clients internationally in consultation with foreign associates and attorneys
- Witness and certify the validity of signatures on documents
- Record court commencement, trial proceedings and judgements
- Release defendants on judges' orders
- Collect and record administrative and service fees
- Draft legal correspondence
- Explain rights and obligations to defendants
- Oversee maintenance of judicial court records
- Perform civil marriages
- Assist in preparing annual budgets
- Hear evidence at trials on summary conviction offences and may preside over trials of criminal offences
- Call courts of law to order, read charges and take pleas from defendants
- Act as executor, trustee or guardian in estate matters
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Tight deadlines
- Attention to detail
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Initiative
- Reliability
- Team player
- Resourcefulness
Experience
- 1 year to less than 2 years

📌 Litigation law clerk (Brampton)
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📍 Brampton