At McCarthy Tétrault, we offer challenging and rewarding career opportunities and are delighted to have been selected for the eleventh consecutive year in 2023 as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers and one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers. Our culture is built on professional excellence, collaboration, innovation, thought leadership and entrepreneurialism. We embrace inclusion in all its forms and we provide the tools and opportunities to help our people develop to their full potential.

We are recruiting for a Legal Assistant, Real Estate to join our team in our Vancouver office. The successful candidate must have a minimum 3 years’ of relevant experience, and will be responsible for supporting paralegals with documents, travel and calendar management, and client support. McCarthy Tétrault employees benefit from a hybrid work environment.

Salary - $63,000 - $73,000

The offered salary may vary based on the candidate’s job-specific knowledge, skills, and experience.

As a Legal Assistant (Real Property and Planning), you will be:

• Assisting the paralegal team with real estate transactions (development, purchases, sales, and financings), including strata lot project sales.
• Working with project database, including entering project sale contract data and reconciling the database information with the contract information.
• Creating and editing transaction documents in project database, including coordinating coding for documents with database vendor.
• Receiving, handling, and processing of project lot sale contract deposits.
• Generating deposit reports from project database, reconciling reports against trust accounting information, identifying, and correcting discrepancies between reports.
• Collaborating with the finance team to deal with trust reconciliations, closing arrangements for deposits, closing funds, mortgage and other type of payouts, holdbacks and investments.
• Initiating cheque requisitions for funds to be paid to clients or third parties with respect to all types of transactions.
• Communicating with clients, sales centre representatives (projects), other parties’ solicitors, lenders, and realtors.
• Preparing correspondence and reports.
• Performing general administrative tasks such as scanning, emailing, and arranging for courier pick-ups.
• Consistently maintaining current filing of all correspondence and documents.
• Working collaboratively with the real estate team (lawyers, assistants, and paralegals) to ensure that time, energy and resources are allocated where the need and level of importance are greatest.
• Other duties as assigned.

As our ideal candidate, you will have:

• Legal Assistant diploma or college certificate in office administration would be preferred
• Minimum 3 years of experience as a legal assistant or as an assistant with experience ideally acquired in a professional services environment.
• In-depth knowledge of business and legal terminology.
• Strong attention to detail and superior word processing, spelling, proofreading and editing skills.
• Capacity to perform duties with speed and accuracy.
• Strong time management, organizational and multi-tasking skills and ability to work under pressure to meet important deadlines.
• Ability to follow-up on files and delays with minimal supervision.
• High level of discretion and confidentiality.
• Flexibility to occasionally work overtime.

As a member of the McCarthy team, you will have access to:

• Outstanding benefits from day one, including insurance premiums paid by the Firm and wellness and technology reimbursements.
• Competitive compensation, paid overtime and generous time off, including a day off to volunteer and a day off for your birthday.
• A commitment to professional development and growth opportunities for our people at all levels, supported by a culture that fully embraces and encourages two-way feedback.
• Strong community involvement and a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion.
• A collaborative, cohesive culture that connects lawyers and business teams through collective purpose.

How to Apply: 

We encourage external candidates to apply online and internal applicants must apply directly through our internal careers portal on Espresso. We look forward to receiving your application.

We thank all applicants for their interest in McCarthy Tétrault; however, only chosen applicants will be contacted. We regret that we are unable to respond to individual inquiries about application status. McCarthy Tétrault is an equal opportunity employer that fosters an inclusive, equitable, and accessible environment. Please notify us if you require accommodation at any time during the recruitment process.