We are a full-service law firm based in Victoria, B.C with a practice that reaches across all of B.C.

We are recruiting an experienced, full-time, ideally long term litigation paralegal/senior legal assistant who will grow alongside us in the coming years as a core and deeply valued member of our team. We are looking for an established legal assistant or paralegal, or someone with substantive experience or education and training in litigation, not someone just starting out or looking to transition into a role like this. We are not looking for students or people who expect to fill this role temporarily. This is an in-person position at our Victoria BC office.

Our new teammate will be someone who can hit the ground running with drafting and filing pleadings, financial statements, and getting affidavits and legal correspondence started, as well as able to handle client inquiries and interviews, run conflict checks, and assist with preparing application records, trial binders, and scheduling client intakes and consultations with our lawyers. Our new colleague is someone who understands how to work with lawyers and with clients on litigation matters, and who understands and can empathetically navigate the special emotional climate of family law litigation.

There will be lots of opportunity to learn our specific systems and procedures and to ask questions, and, we do need someone who already knows how to navigate basic litigation systems like Court Services Online/BC Registry Services, and who is familiar with the standard documents and forms used in family and civil litigation practices in the BC Provincial and Supreme Courts.

The right person for this role will be fun, curious,



and positive, and is someone who takes initiative to find answers and solutions but who isn’t afraid to ask questions or ask for help when stuck. Our future colleague can expect to be treated with respect and dignity.

Our firm is 99% paperless, modern, and down to earth. This means it is essential that our new team member have excellent computer skills, and be totally comfortable with modern technology, including cloud-based document and practice management systems. We use exclusively Mac machines at our firm, so comfort with using Macs is important to have or to be willing to develop.

Our ideal team member is okay with positive-natured swearing around the office, and with lawyers both excitedly chatting about, and sometimes complaining about, our files, lawyers and/or the justice system in general, in their presence. Our future colleague understands that our legal team sometimes deals with sad or difficult, and rarely even disturbing, legal matters, and this means occasionally being exposed to some sad or difficult documents and phone calls or emails from or to our clients.

We run a low-light workplace, meaning we all detest overhead lighting - IYKYK - but we will kit you out with a wicked set of floor and desk lamps of your choice for your own work area,



and there are indeed windows and natural light in our office!

Please send us a cover letter and resume that together demonstrate clearly how your experience, education, training and/or skills fit our needs as set out in this posting, and that also show us your personality! Ideally, you will e-mail your PDF'd resume and cover letter directly to either our Managing Lawyer or to our senior legal assistant. Their email address is simply their first name at our domain name. Taking this step will help us understand which applicants are bots/AI and which are human beings - we are obviously interested in hiring a human being for this role.

On that note, we are not interested in virtual paralegals or virtual assistants.

We will be conducting in-person interviews in Victoria BC and can only contact candidates whom we have selected for an interview. Please do not apply for this position if you don't have any experience, as you will be wasting your own (and our) time.

We are a queer owned, very liberal, trauma-informed and cool workplace. We aren't your family, but we are good and decent people who care about our work, our clients, our teammates, the rights of marginalized people, human beings, and the world. If your personal politics don't align with that sort of vibe, you definitely won't enjoy working at our firm.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $61,000.00-$75,000.00 per year

Benefits

- Casual dress
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Flexible schedule

Education:
- Secondary School (required)

Experience:
- paralegal or legal assistant: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person

📌 Paralegal/Legal Assistant - Litigation (Victoria)
🏢 Breakwater Law
📍 Victoria