Corporate & Real Estate Legal Assistant

Corporate & Real Estate Legal Assistant

A prestigious Toronto law firm is seeking an experienced Corporate & Real Estate Legal Assistant to join their team. If you have a minimum of five years’ experience in Corporate or Real Estate law and excel in a fast-paced legal environment, then this is the opportunity for you to shine! Your skills will be pivotal in shaping case outcomes, supporting our legal professionals, and ensuring our clients receive outstanding representation. In turn you will be offered a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, perks, and work from home days/. Apply now if you are ready to advance your career!

Salary: Up to $68K

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in the legal industry
• Law Clerk or Legal Assistant diploma
• Solid knowledge of Real Estate including residential real estate purchases, sales and mortgages
• Preparation of all Teraview documentation and registration
• Thorough knowledge of Teraview system and documents.
• Knowledge of title insurance
• Knowledge of commercial leasing would be an asset
• Corp-link and Cyberbahn experience are an asset

Key Responsibilities

• Understanding and attending to transaction matters, including requesting and reviewing corporate searches, completing PPSA summaries, preparing and maintaining closing agendas and documents therein, preparing closing report books
• Understanding, drafting with instructions, and revising commercial contracts such as shareholder and limited partnership agreements, supply contracts, security documents, leases and non-disturbance agreements
• Performing title searches and off-title searches
• Process title insurance orders and deal with title insurance companies
• Reviewing due diligence material (including material contracts, agreements, and other documents)
• Completing project summary tables with real estate and corporate related information for transactions
• Attending to leasing matters including preparing leases, summary of leases, lease renewals and amending agreement
• Understanding of commercial and residential real estate purchases, sales, and refinances from opening to closing.
• Communicating directly with clients, drafting and responding to requisition letters, preparing/revising closing documents, fulfilling lending conditions, attending to closing day matters, and preparing reporting letters to clients and lenders
• Understanding and ability to facilitate commercial and residential financing transactions for lawyer’s lending clients by reviewing commitment letter or term sheet, drafting closing documents, including authorizing resolutions, officers’ certificates, opinions
• Preparing various firm administrative documents and attending to file maintenance procedures, such as: conflict search requests, data entering for file opening purposes, cheque requisitions, wire transfer forms, and internal forms
• Drafting correspondence, letters and e-mails including dictation
• Daily use of firm software for document production, such as: Teraview, Conveyancer, MatterSphere, MS Word, Outlook, Excel, Adobe Acrobat, Workshare
• Administrative support
• Other duties as assigned

How to Apply:To apply, please forward your resume to Sabrina at[email protected]

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Tagged as: Corporate, Legal Assistant, Real Estate