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 Calgary office:
Coordinator, Professional Development Essential Functions Training / Onboarding:
- Coordinate the planning, organization and execution of Alberta Student onboarding & training (Articling students, Summer students, and Clerks & other unique students)
- Coordinate the planning, organization and execution of the annual Alberta New Associate Training sessions
Feedback & Reviews
- Organize and manage student feedback and review cycles in Vi and provide assistance to the Student Director as required
- Organize and manage the Alberta Associate Review Processes (mid-year and year-end) in Vi and provide assistance to the PD Director as required
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Provide support to the Directors in planning & organizing the Student and the Lawyer Bennett Jones Academy sessions and researching external professional development opportunities
- Utilization of various firm software tools and coordination with other firm departments in relation to execution of PD learning events
- Coordination of various firm and lawyer memberships, subscriptions, and external CPD registrations
Other General Functions
- Liaise with Law Society of Alberta regarding Change in Particulars and Enrollment in the LSA, and liase with extra-provincial Law Societies as necessary (including enrollment and CPD requirements)
- Lead the Firm's payment of annual Law Society of Alberta and ALIA fees
- Tracking all Alberta Lawyer annual mandatory CPD filings and assistance with ensuring universal completion of same
- Assisting with various data reports as instructed by the Directors
- Ongoing daily support of the Directors' responsibilities and other projects and duties as assigned
- Various accounting and budget related tasks
- Coordination of various tasks and activities with PD & Student Teams in other offices
- Assistance with Student Recruitment related processes as needed
- Ensuring current knowledge and utilization of various firm software tools and updates
Qualifications
- A minimum of 3 years of law firm experience is strongly preferred
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Superior technical knowledge of Microsoft Office and an overall tech savvy nature.
- Exhibits a strong work ethic with the ability to maintain confidentiality and discretion
- Displays professionalism and has highly developed interpersonal skills with a proactive approach to problem solving
- A team player who contributes to the cohesiveness of the Student & Professional Development Department
- Self-starter with excellent attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Responsive to the needs of the students, lawyers and other members of the firm in a timely manner
- Flexible and able to work in a fast-paced environment while juggling conflicting priorities
Apply To Human Resources
Bennett Jones Services Limited Partnership
4500 Bankers Hall East, 855 – 2 Street SW
Calgary, AB T2P 4K7
E-mail: HRDeptTor@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 Calgary office:
Coordinator, Professional Development Essential Functions Training / Onboarding:
- Coordinate the planning, organization and execution of Alberta Student onboarding & training (Articling students, Summer students, and Clerks & other unique students)
- Coordinate the planning, organization and execution of the annual Alberta New Associate Training sessions
Feedback & Reviews
- Organize and manage student feedback and review cycles in Vi and provide assistance to the Student Director as required
- Organize and manage the Alberta Associate Review Processes (mid-year and year-end) in Vi and provide assistance to the PD Director as required
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Provide support to the Directors in planning & organizing the Student and the Lawyer Bennett Jones Academy sessions and researching external professional development opportunities
- Utilization of various firm software tools and coordination with other firm departments in relation to execution of PD learning events
- Coordination of various firm and lawyer memberships, subscriptions, and external CPD registrations
Other General Functions
- Liaise with Law Society of Alberta regarding Change in Particulars and Enrollment in the LSA, and liase with extra-provincial Law Societies as necessary (including enrollment and CPD requirements)
- Lead the Firm's payment of annual Law Society of Alberta and ALIA fees
- Tracking all Alberta Lawyer annual mandatory CPD filings and assistance with ensuring universal completion of same
- Assisting with various data reports as instructed by the Directors
- Ongoing daily support of the Directors' responsibilities and other projects and duties as assigned
- Various accounting and budget related tasks
- Coordination of various tasks and activities with PD & Student Teams in other offices
- Assistance with Student Recruitment related processes as needed
- Ensuring current knowledge and utilization of various firm software tools and updates
Qualifications
- A minimum of 3 years of law firm experience is strongly preferred
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Superior technical knowledge of Microsoft Office and an overall tech savvy nature.
- Exhibits a strong work ethic with the ability to maintain confidentiality and discretion
- Displays professionalism and has highly developed interpersonal skills with a proactive approach to problem solving
- A team player who contributes to the cohesiveness of the Student & Professional Development Department
- Self-starter with excellent attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Responsive to the needs of the students, lawyers and other members of the firm in a timely manner
- Flexible and able to work in a fast-paced environment while juggling conflicting priorities
Apply To Human Resources
Bennett Jones Services Limited Partnership
4500 Bankers Hall East, 855 – 2 Street SW
Calgary, AB T2P 4K7
E-mail: HRDeptTor@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.