Litigation Float Legal Administrative Assistant

Role overview

A downtown Vancouver law firm is hiring an experienced Litigation Float Legal Administrative Assistant to provide flexible coverage across lawyers and litigation practice groups. The role requires a versatile LAA who can step into different files and working styles, maintain deadlines and court requirements and keep client service and administrative quality consistent during absences, vacations and workload peaks.

Responsibilities

• Provide litigation administrative coverage across lawyers and teams.
• Draft, format and proofread correspondence, pleadings, affidavits, applications and court materials.
• Prepare and file documents in the Supreme Court of British Columbia and other courts.
• Manage calendars, deadlines, discoveries, mediations, court dates and meetings.
• Maintain electronic/physical files and coordinate service and filing with registries and external parties.
• Prepare discovery, mediation, hearing and trial materials and support billing/time entry.

• Legal Administrative Assistant certificate or diploma.
• At least three years of litigation LAA experience in a law firm.
• Strong knowledge of BC litigation procedures, court rules, filing requirements and deadlines.
• Strong drafting, proofreading, organization, time management and client-service skills.
• Microsoft Office proficiency; legal practice/document-management systems are an asset.
• Ability to exercise judgment, maintain confidentiality and adapt to multiple lawyers and teams.

Full-time permanent Vancouver opportunity. The official page does not publish a salary. It explicitly instructs candidates to send their resume to legal@rjohnsoncorp.com, attention Richard, providing direct proof for the recruiter-to-job relationship.