About the role
Ranked a Best Employer in Canada for 24 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 Edmonton office:
Legal Assistant, Litigation Essential Functions Legal Administrative Support
- Provides comprehensive legal administrative support, including drafting legal documents, managing client correspondence, and overseeing billing processes.Supports a broad range of practice areas, including health law, wills and estate litigation and employment law.
- Manage scheduling, meetings, and travel arrangements for assigned lawyers, ensuring seamless coordination tailored to individual practices.
- Builds and maintains strong, professional relationships with clients, lawyers, and staff to ensure effective service delivery.
- Performs general administrative and office duties to support daily operations.
Executive Support to Managing Partner
- Delivers high-level executive support, including managing confidential communications, strategic calendar oversight, travel planning, and leadership meeting coordination.
- Assists with firm-wide marketing initiatives, including preparing promotional materials and coordinating campaign activities.
- Maintains organized and secure physical and electronic filing systems to support confidentiality and ease of access.
- Promotes a collaborative and engaged team environment on behalf of the Managing Partner.
Practice Group & CMPA Operations Support
- Oversee Health Law Practice Group logistics, including meeting coordination, agenda preparation, speaker arrangements, and catering.
- Prepares and maintains monthly trust accounting reports related to CMPA files, ensuring accuracy and compliance with regulatory standards.
- Coordinates logistics for professional events, including conference registrations, travel arrangements, and related communications.
- Supports CMPA practice development and client engagement initiatives through effective administrative and operational support.
Qualifications:
- Post-secondary education from an accredited Legal Assistant program and/or equivalent experience
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a legal support position; experience in Litigation an asset
- Proficient with computers, particularly Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel)
- Demonstrates a high level of professionalism, confidentiality and discretion
- Highly organized and able to prioritize workload
- Excellent attention to detail
- Self-motivated
- Responds to everyday tasks with little supervision and take ownership of the role
- A strong team player; demonstration of a positive work ethic
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Apply To: Human Resources
Bennett Jones Services Limited Partnership
1400 Stantec Tower
10220 – 103 Avenue NW
Edmonton, AB T5J 0K4
E-mail: hrdeptedm@bennettjones.com
All offers of employment are conditional upon the satisfactory verification of a Canadian criminal record check. Determination of the factors that constitute satisfactory verification is within the sole discretion of Bennett Jones.
This position will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.
Bennett Jones welcomes applications from all applicants, including applicants who may requires a specific accommodation because of a disability or another protected ground. Any applicant requiring accommodation during the application process should contact email noted above.
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.
About the role
Ranked a Best Employer in Canada for 24 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 Edmonton office:
Legal Assistant, Litigation Essential Functions Legal Administrative Support
- Provides comprehensive legal administrative support, including drafting legal documents, managing client correspondence, and overseeing billing processes.Supports a broad range of practice areas, including health law, wills and estate litigation and employment law.
- Manage scheduling, meetings, and travel arrangements for assigned lawyers, ensuring seamless coordination tailored to individual practices.
- Builds and maintains strong, professional relationships with clients, lawyers, and staff to ensure effective service delivery.
- Performs general administrative and office duties to support daily operations.
Executive Support to Managing Partner
- Delivers high-level executive support, including managing confidential communications, strategic calendar oversight, travel planning, and leadership meeting coordination.
- Assists with firm-wide marketing initiatives, including preparing promotional materials and coordinating campaign activities.
- Maintains organized and secure physical and electronic filing systems to support confidentiality and ease of access.
- Promotes a collaborative and engaged team environment on behalf of the Managing Partner.
Practice Group & CMPA Operations Support
- Oversee Health Law Practice Group logistics, including meeting coordination, agenda preparation, speaker arrangements, and catering.
- Prepares and maintains monthly trust accounting reports related to CMPA files, ensuring accuracy and compliance with regulatory standards.
- Coordinates logistics for professional events, including conference registrations, travel arrangements, and related communications.
- Supports CMPA practice development and client engagement initiatives through effective administrative and operational support.
Qualifications:
- Post-secondary education from an accredited Legal Assistant program and/or equivalent experience
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a legal support position; experience in Litigation an asset
- Proficient with computers, particularly Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel)
- Demonstrates a high level of professionalism, confidentiality and discretion
- Highly organized and able to prioritize workload
- Excellent attention to detail
- Self-motivated
- Responds to everyday tasks with little supervision and take ownership of the role
- A strong team player; demonstration of a positive work ethic
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Apply To: Human Resources
Bennett Jones Services Limited Partnership
1400 Stantec Tower
10220 – 103 Avenue NW
Edmonton, AB T5J 0K4
E-mail: hrdeptedm@bennettjones.com
All offers of employment are conditional upon the satisfactory verification of a Canadian criminal record check. Determination of the factors that constitute satisfactory verification is within the sole discretion of Bennett Jones.
This position will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.
Bennett Jones welcomes applications from all applicants, including applicants who may requires a specific accommodation because of a disability or another protected ground. Any applicant requiring accommodation during the application process should contact email noted above.
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.