Legal Assistant

Legal Assistant - ClearWay Law Toronto

Background

We are a growing Toronto law firm with 10 lawyers. Most of our lawyers work from court, their own offices, or their houses. You would be communicating with lawyers via the phone, email and text.
We are starting to get very busy, and we someone to answer calls, send out agreement, follow up with leads using our CRM, and keep our CRM (ZOHO) up to date.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal administrative support to our family and estate lawyers and bill your time to clients
• Prepare legal documents and correspondence according to instructions
• Answer phones, book consultations, and send retainer agreement via Docusign
• Open and close files
• Make sure the lawyers are working hard on the file, doing a good job, and tracking their time
• Schedule meetings
• Other administrative duties as may be needed
• Writing blogs with lawyers for the website

• Helping to write content for law books

Requirements

• Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Outlook, Excel);
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and time management skills
• Positive, flexible, enthusiastic team player attitude
• Ability to find tasks for yourself to improve the law firm