Paralegal Job Calgary area,Alberta Canada,Law/Legal

Requisition : 190941
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Juridique, entreprises connexes
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time

Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Alberta;
Ontario;
Québec
City: Calgary, Mississauga, Montréal-Nord
Location: Bureau de Montréal-Nord, Calgary Office, Tahoe Office

Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.

Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.

A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, Fresh Co, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

Ready to make an impact ?

As a Paralegal, you will be supporting Lawyers for time management and prioritization of their tasks as well as the overall organization and management of files.

Here’s where you’ll be focusing :

Assembling and organizing information for legal documents

Drafting various types of legal documents and various template commercial agreements, including supply agreements, service agreements, amending agreements, renewals and subleases according to general instructions for the lawyer’s review

Managing files from opening to the conclusion of the transaction

Performing a variety of duties in the area of corporate, commercial and regulatory laws

Co-ordinating and managing files in connection with transactional work across Canada

Working on varying complexities related to transactions

Exercising initiative and judgment in assisting lawyers with administrative detail on files

Under direction from lawyers, attend to filing or arranging for the filing of legal documents

Process cheque requests and wire transfers

Assisting with overall file maintenance for lawyers

Interacting with other departments to obtain information and instructions to help complete a transaction

Reviewing files to confirm key timelines/deadline dates and updating these timelines and/or deadlines into legal diary systems

Preparing memorandums to various departments within the business advising of any new changes to commercial agreements, including supply agreements and service agreements

Fielding, managing, and responding to general inquiries from the business

Assisting with general corporate legal work from the business

Researching law and Acts in order to update legal precedents and documentation

Registering, renewing, discharging, and amending security under the PPSA and RDPRM in all provinces

Reviewing files and responding to inquiries that do not require a legal opinion

What you have to offer :

4+ years of relevant experience working as a law clerk in a law firm or an in-house environment.

Graduated from certified Law Clerk program or acceptable experience in Quebec and English Canada Provinces

Advanced knowledge or corporate statutes and corporate procedures

Extensive experience in transactional work in areas of corporate law

Extensive experience in drafting legal agreements

Bilingual written and spoken in French and English (The candidate will be expected to work collaboratively with peers in other provinces to develop procedures and processes to be implemented nationally. She will also have to interact regularly with her peers in other provinces, as well as provide support to Sobeys employees across Canada)

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At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.

We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which varies by role and designed…


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