Part-time Legal VA

Title: Legal VA
Reporting to: TBA
Contract Type: Part-time Freelance Contract (10 hours per week or more depending on requirement)
No of Hire: 5


Our client is Canada’s leading legal marketplace built for entrepreneurs and empowers business owners, startups and entrepreneurs to succeed by connecting them with the specialized legal expertise they need. They are an interactive online service that makes it faster and easier for clients to find and hire legal help solely based on their preferences.

Since their platform supports independent lawyers, the opportunity here is to get you matched to one of these 90 lawyers across Canada (and growing!) to provide backend support, legal administration and improve lawyer efficiency.

*Key Responsibilities:

- General administrative and clerical duties, from answering phones to filing and making copies
- Maintaining calendars, scheduling appointments, and completing documents
- Managing, organizing, and collating legal documents
- Conducting legal research
- Communicating with clients
- Provide accurate transcription work
- Data entry
- Creating PowerPoint Presentations
- Assisting with billing and accounting services
- Establishing, implementing, and improving existing workflows and administrative procedures


*Skills and Competencies:

- Preferably a graduate of bachelor's degree in Law, or equivalent
- Should have at least 5 years of work experience in a Paralegal or Legal setting
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Able to get work done independently and within a team environment
- Demonstrated ability in learning new applications quickly
- Highly efficient, keen on details and has a creative side of personality at work
- Proficient with MS Office Suite and Google Suite
- Knowledge of any CRM experience will be ideal
- Ability to work independently toward tasks
- Good time management


*Additional Information:

- Permanent work-from-home, remote role offer
- Fixed weekends off
- Starts part-time, 10 hours per week with a possibility to increase hours leading to part-time or full-time employment
- Must be available to work starting at 9:00 am EST onward (night shift/ 9:00 pm PH)
- Must have complete home equipment setup (desktop/laptop, headset, internet connection and webcam)
- Has home internet speed of at least 5-10 Mbps


*To apply, please submit the following:

- Your most recent CV
- A sample voice recording via Upgrade to see actual info
- Personality test result link from Upgrade to see actual info


*Applicants without these 3 requirements will automatically be disqualified.