- Education : College / CEGEP
- Experience : 7 months to less than 1 year
Tasks
- Advise clients on legal proceedings
- Assemble documentary evidence in preparation for trial
- Be responsible for the administration of the estate and the distribution of assets
- Draft contracts, prepare promissory notes and draw up wills, mortgages and other legal documents
- Interview clients, witnesses and other related parties
- Perform clerical duties, such as maintain filing systems
- Take legal action on landlord and tenant matters
- Write trial briefs
- Establish work priorities for court staff
- Prepare wills, real estate transactions and other legal documents, court reports and affidavits
- Receive affidavits, declarations and affirmations
- Represent clients in small claims court and in other lower court proceedings, at tribunals and before administrative bodies
- Administer oaths
- Witness and certify the validity of signatures on documents
- Record court commencement, trial proceedings and judgements
- Draft legal correspondence
- Explain rights and obligations to defendants
- Oversee maintenance of judicial court records
- Perform civil marriages
- Assist in preparing annual budgets
- Hear evidence at trials on summary conviction offences and may preside over trials of criminal offences
- Call courts of law to order, read charges and take pleas from defendants
- Work Term : Permanent
- Work Language : English
- Hours : 35 hours per week
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