Litigation Legal Assistant – Evening and Weekend Shifts

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Assistant

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Uman Recrutement

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11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

⚖️ Legal

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Legal • Marketing

Uman Recrutement is a recruitment agency based in Montreal, specializing in talent acquisition across various sectors in Quebec. Their expert headhunters utilize creative and innovative strategies to deliver tailored recruitment solutions that align with the strategic goals of businesses. Uman Recrutement focuses on sectors such as IT, finance, engineering, legal, administration, marketing, and more, offering comprehensive services from candidate sourcing to post-hire follow-up, ensuring a perfect match between candidates and companies.

📋 Description

• Serve as a reserve member of the litigation legal assistant team during absences, vacations, and peak periods • Handle urgent overflow work, priority tasks, and requests requiring prompt attention • Ensure deadlines are met and high standards of client service are maintained • Collaborate with legal assistants and lawyers to efficiently distribute workloads • Prepare, draft, revise, and format routine litigation documents and proceedings • Rigorously manage deadlines, record them in calendars, and keep schedules up to date • Prepare document drafts and review documents and correspondence • Open, file, monitor, and organize matter files • Manage communications, including telephone calls, emails, and other correspondence • Organize and coordinate meetings among lawyers, clients, and other stakeholders • Prepare files for meetings and hearings • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Diploma of Vocational Studies (DEP) in Secretarial Studies or a Diploma of College Studies (DEC) in Administration or Legal Studies, or an equivalent combination of education and experience • Minimum of 5 years of experience as a litigation legal assistant • Experience in a law firm required • Knowledge of legal terminology and procedural rules required • Familiarity with insurance law is an asset • Bilingualism required (French and English), with the ability to draft and communicate accurately and effectively in both languages • Excellent proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, at an intermediate or ideally advanced level • Strong ability to work in a computerized environment using a variety of software applications, with the ability to learn new technology tools • Knowledge of iManage is an asset • Ability to work remotely in a well-organized and productive manner • Rigor, strong attention to detail, and excellent organizational skills • Client-focused, with excellent teamwork and collaboration skills, tact, and discretion • Professionalism and the ability to maintain excellent interpersonal relationships • Ability to learn quickly, proactivity, and initiative

🏖️ Benefits

• Permanent position • Option to work part-time (20 hours per week) or full-time (35 hours per week) • 100% remote position • Group insurance (dental, prescription drugs, and vision) fully paid by the employer from the first day • $500 annual health spending account • $300 annual wellness and sports spending account • 10 sick and personal days • Access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • RRSP available from the first day; employer contributions begin after one year of employment • Life insurance • 3 to 4 weeks of vacation per year, depending on experience • Overtime paid at 1.5 times the regular rate