Mississauga | 2 + Years

Our client, a boutique commercial litigation law firm is look to add a Litigation Law Clerk to their team.

The duties of the successful candidate include:

• Preparing all routine court documents from initiating an action or application through to obtaining judgment;
• Arranging personal service of notices of action, statements of claim, notices of application, or other documents that require personal service;
• Liasing with process servers to ensure service is completed;
• Serving documents on opposing counsel, preparing affidavits of service, and filing the documents through the Ontario courts’ online portal filing system and other online platforms as requested by the court;
• Liasing with court clerks to ensure that court documents are accepted for filing;
• Some knowledge of the Rules of Civil Procedure and Rules of the Small Claims Court as they relate to timelines for serving and filing of court documents;
• Maintaining a follow-up system through Outlook;
• Preparing routine correspondence;
• Preparing accounts to clients and uploading/inputting them onto clients’ online billing platform, if necessary;
• Conducting real estate searches through Teraview;
• Conducting corporate searches through various online search platforms such as Cyberbahn, etc.;
• Providing general support to lawyers and their respective law clerks as necessary

For more information or to submit your resume to kgauthier@zsa.ca reference #32452