legal assistant Oshawa
Job description
Legal assistant-Personal Injury/Civil Litigation
Job Details full time/in office
$48,000 depending on experience
Job Description
- file opening to completion
- ability to deal with and solve client issues
- managing client documents, undertakings and follow-up
- drafting pleadings, affidavits of documents, settlement proposals, preparation of mediation and pretrial briefs
- review and summary of medical records, employment and payroll records
- preparation of LAT applications, case conferences
- understanding the SAB’s, LAT and assisting clients with AB applications and process
- new client intake calls and review
- independently drafting letters to adjuster’s, client’s, doctors, police, and follow-up
- administrative tasks, scanning, scheduling appointments, discoveries, scheduling client expert medical assessments
- communicating with adjusters, clients and other lawyers
- general legal research, research of SAB issues
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Skills/Qualifications
-2 to 3 years experience in personal injury
-ideal candidate will be highly organized, intelligent, ability to work independently, self-starter, handle multiple files and tasks and be highly oriented toward customer and client service
- good knowledge of the SAB’s
-good knowledge of the Rules of Civil Procedure
-intelligence, organization, attention to detail, a willingness and ability to learn are the most important skills for this position
Please send resume to [email protected] and also to [email protected]
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: From $48,000.00 per year
Flexible Language Requirement:
- French not required
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Oshawa, ON L1H 4G6: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- legal assistant: 2 years (preferred)
Work Location: In person
Expected start date: REPLACEMENT_STRING05-15
