Barrister & Solicitor

Role Responsibilities

Are you looking for an opportunity to focus on your legal skills in a collaborative environment while working on interesting, novel, cutting edge, challenging and unique matters? Are you interested in practicing constitutional and/or aboriginal law in either an advisory or litigation capacity? If your answer is yes, then we are interested in hearing from you!

Legal Services Division is seeking to hire legal officers at the CCC2 and CCC3 classification level to join the Constitutional and Aboriginal Law Team. We are looking for someone with either or both advisory and litigation experience, however priority will be given to experienced litigators.

The Constitutional and Aboriginal Law Team provides strategic legal advice and legal opinions to client Ministries across the Government of Alberta on constitutional and aboriginal law matters, including advice related to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Constitution Act, 1867, the Alberta Bill of Rights, federal/provincial division of powers, the Crown’s duty to consult Indigenous peoples, and section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982. The team also handles complex constitutional and aboriginal litigation involving the Government of Alberta at all court levels, including interventions, judicial review applications, and civil claims.

Our ideal candidates will have constitutional or aboriginal law experience in some or all of the following areas:

Litigation experience, including:

• Representing clients before courts and tribunals both independently and as part of a team of lawyers, as lead or junior counsel;
• Preparing court documents including pleadings, applications, affidavits and written arguments; and
• Reviewing and assessing documents for production purposes and utilizing litigation document management software.
  

Advisory experience, including:

• Conducting legal research and preparing legal opinions and memos for clients;
• Providing client-focussed verbal and written strategic legal advice to enable decision-making; and
• Experience providing client education sessions and working with a broad range of clients across multiple divisions.

In all capacities, you must be adept at collaborating in a team environment and possess strong client relations skills.