Embedded Resource Assistant, Corporate
About the role
Ranked a Best Employer in Canada for 25 years, Bennett Jones is one of Canada’s premier business law firms and home to 500 lawyers and business advisors. With deep experience in complex transactions and litigation matters, and offices in Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver and New York, the firm is well equipped to advise businesses and investors with Canadian ventures and connect Canadian businesses and investors with opportunities around the world. Serving clients since 1922, we are proud to be the firm that businesses trust with their most complex legal matters.
We are currently recruiting for the following role in our Vancouver office:
Embedded Resource Assistance, Corporate.
The Role The Resource Team is a valued group of highly skilled legal assistants who provide short and long-term coverage for assistants working in the Corporate group.
Essential Functions
- Provide vacation/sick coverage for assistants throughout the Corporate group
- Assist Corporate assistants and Paralegals with overload and project work
- BC Online searches and corporate online searches
- Assist with transaction closings, including scanning and photocopying
- Administrative duties as required such as managing calendars, coordinating meetings and making travel arrangements
- Assisting with client billings and preparing invoices and account letters
- Preparing expense reports
- Maintaining up to date contact information
- Liaising with internal clients (regional and firm-wide), lawyers, and staff on various matters
Qualifications
- Legal Assistant Diploma from an accredited post-secondary institution required
- Familiarity with corporate and/or real estate along with terminology and procedures an asset but not a requirement
- Strong computer skills including proficiency with MS Office
- Excellent organizational and communication skills; self-motivated with the ability to multi-task
- Impeccable proofreading, grammar skills and attention to detail
- Service oriented, adaptable, reliable and dependable
- Professional work ethic and great attitude
- Maintains confidentiality and discretion
- Exceptional ability to work independently with minimal supervision or within a team environment
Salary range: $50,00 - $60,000 based on experience and market information.
Apply To Human Resources
Bennett Jones Services Limited Partnership
2500 Park Place
666 Burrard Street
Vancouver, BC V6C 2X8
E-mail: hrvancouver@bennettjones.com
About Bennett Jones
For over a century, Bennett Jones has been an internationally recognized Canadian law firm founded and focused on principles of professional excellence, integrity, respect and independent thought. Our firm’s leadership position is reflected in the law we practise, the ground-breaking work we do, the client relationships we have and the quality of our people.
Bennett Jones is home to more than 500 lawyers and business advisors in seven offices—Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton, Ottawa, Vancouver, Montréal and New York. Our professional practice encompasses virtually every sector of business, industry and government. Operating seamlessly across our geographic locations, our business practice is to assign lawyers to work on client files who have the skills and experience that best meet our clients’ needs.
Our ranks are filled with leaders in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, energy and natural resources, corporate finance and banking, bankruptcy and restructuring, commercial litigation, climate change, environment, ESG, construction, technology and intellectual property, tax, competition, international trade and public policy. Members of our exceptional Public Policy group have served at the highest levels of office and been invaluable for their leadership in shaping public policy in Canada—and in developing business responses to those policies.
Among our group we count a former governor of the Bank of Canada, two former deputy prime ministers of Canada, a former Supreme Court of Canada justice, a former Canadian ambassador to the United States of America and a former commissioner of the Canadian Competition Bureau.
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Embedded Resource Assistant, Corporate
About the role
Ranked a Best Employer in Canada for 25 years, Bennett Jones is one of Canada’s premier business law firms and home to 500 lawyers and business advisors. With deep experience in complex transactions and litigation matters, and offices in Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver and New York, the firm is well equipped to advise businesses and investors with Canadian ventures and connect Canadian businesses and investors with opportunities around the world. Serving clients since 1922, we are proud to be the firm that businesses trust with their most complex legal matters.
We are currently recruiting for the following role in our Vancouver office:
Embedded Resource Assistance, Corporate.
The Role The Resource Team is a valued group of highly skilled legal assistants who provide short and long-term coverage for assistants working in the Corporate group.
Essential Functions
- Provide vacation/sick coverage for assistants throughout the Corporate group
- Assist Corporate assistants and Paralegals with overload and project work
- BC Online searches and corporate online searches
- Assist with transaction closings, including scanning and photocopying
- Administrative duties as required such as managing calendars, coordinating meetings and making travel arrangements
- Assisting with client billings and preparing invoices and account letters
- Preparing expense reports
- Maintaining up to date contact information
- Liaising with internal clients (regional and firm-wide), lawyers, and staff on various matters
Qualifications
- Legal Assistant Diploma from an accredited post-secondary institution required
- Familiarity with corporate and/or real estate along with terminology and procedures an asset but not a requirement
- Strong computer skills including proficiency with MS Office
- Excellent organizational and communication skills; self-motivated with the ability to multi-task
- Impeccable proofreading, grammar skills and attention to detail
- Service oriented, adaptable, reliable and dependable
- Professional work ethic and great attitude
- Maintains confidentiality and discretion
- Exceptional ability to work independently with minimal supervision or within a team environment
Salary range: $50,00 - $60,000 based on experience and market information.
Apply To Human Resources
Bennett Jones Services Limited Partnership
2500 Park Place
666 Burrard Street
Vancouver, BC V6C 2X8
E-mail: hrvancouver@bennettjones.com
About Bennett Jones
For over a century, Bennett Jones has been an internationally recognized Canadian law firm founded and focused on principles of professional excellence, integrity, respect and independent thought. Our firm’s leadership position is reflected in the law we practise, the ground-breaking work we do, the client relationships we have and the quality of our people.
Bennett Jones is home to more than 500 lawyers and business advisors in seven offices—Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton, Ottawa, Vancouver, Montréal and New York. Our professional practice encompasses virtually every sector of business, industry and government. Operating seamlessly across our geographic locations, our business practice is to assign lawyers to work on client files who have the skills and experience that best meet our clients’ needs.
Our ranks are filled with leaders in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, energy and natural resources, corporate finance and banking, bankruptcy and restructuring, commercial litigation, climate change, environment, ESG, construction, technology and intellectual property, tax, competition, international trade and public policy. Members of our exceptional Public Policy group have served at the highest levels of office and been invaluable for their leadership in shaping public policy in Canada—and in developing business responses to those policies.
Among our group we count a former governor of the Bank of Canada, two former deputy prime ministers of Canada, a former Supreme Court of Canada justice, a former Canadian ambassador to the United States of America and a former commissioner of the Canadian Competition Bureau.