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Senior Litigation Associate - Administrative and Public Law

Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Hybrid

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Senior Litigation Associate – Administrative and Public Law WeirFoulds is seeking a senior litigation associate to join our thriving Regulatory Practice Group. The ideal candidate will have: 5-8 years of civil litigation…

Skills: Civil Litigation, Administrative Law, Public Law, Professional Regulation, Legal Research

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Senior Litigation Associate - Administrative and Public Law

WeirFoulds LLP

Toronto, Ontario, Canada • Hybrid

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  • Full-time
  • postgraduate degree
  • Posted 4d ago
  • ~40 hrs/week

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will handle diverse civil litigation and administrative law matters, including professional regulation and discipline cases. They will represent regulatory colleges, universities, and Crown corporations in judicial reviews and privacy matters.

Requirements

Requires 5-8 years of civil litigation experience with a strong focus on administrative and public law. Candidates must possess excellent academic credentials and demonstrated strengths in client relationship development.

Full job description

Senior Litigation Associate – Administrative and Public Law

WeirFoulds is seeking a senior litigation associate to join our thriving Regulatory Practice Group. The ideal candidate will have:

  • 5-8 years of civil litigation experience, from either private practice or in house, including hearing experience and administrative / public law experience
  • Significant experience with professional regulation matters and working with regulatory bodies
  • Strong technical, legal, research and drafting skills combined with excellent organization skills
  • Demonstrated strengths in entrepreneurialism including client service, client relationships and client development
  • Ability to work with lawyers at all levels and be a team player
  • Able to balance competing demands as well as being self-motivated, innovative and flexible
  • Ability to manage document intensive files
  • Confidence to manage files and clients independently
  • Excellent academic credentials

The successful candidate will work with our experienced team of lawyers on a variety of challenging and diverse civil litigation and administrative and public law matters including professional regulation and discipline cases, judicial reviews of government and regulatory decision-making, human rights, and access to information and privacy matters. Our lawyers represent professional regulatory colleges, regulatory authorities, universities, Crown corporations, owner-managed businesses, and private foundations.

At WeirFoulds, we pride ourselves on providing the highest level of service to our clients. As such, it is essential for applicants to be self-starters, dedicated to entrepreneurialism including client service, client development and the building and strengthening of client relationships. If you would like to be part of this dynamic team, and enjoy working in a collegial environment, this is an excellent opportunity for you.

Please submit your application online, including a cover letter, resume and transcripts.

This is a new position.

WeirFoulds welcomes applications from all qualified candidates. We are committed to providing an inclusive work environment composed of people with diverse perspectives, backgrounds, identities, and cultures.

Accommodations in accordance with applicable laws are available for applicants with disabilities. If you require an accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please contact our Human Resources Team at [email protected].

At WeirFoulds, we recognize that we need to advance and to demonstrate equality, diversity, and inclusion in everything we do, internally and externally. We have been working diligently on several key areas, and we recognize that we must do better. Our goal is to put words into concrete action through a number of specific steps. These are described in our official statement on our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, which we are pleased to share.

We thank all candidates for their interest; however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

Related keywords

Civil LitigationAdministrative LawPublic LawProfessional RegulationJudicial ReviewHuman RightsAccess To InformationPrivacy LawRegulatory BodiesLegal DraftingClient ServiceRegulatory Practice Group

About WeirFoulds LLP

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Industry
Law Practice
Company size
201-500 employees
Founded
1860
Headquarters
Toronto, Ontario
LinkedIn followers
11,404

For over 165 years, the lawyers of WeirFoulds have been proud to serve our clients in their most difficult and complex matters. We are the firm of choice for discerning clients within our core areas of practice: (1) Litigation; (2) Corporate; (3) Property; and (4) Government Law. Within these core areas, as well as key sub-specialties, we address highly sophisticated legal challenges. We have acted in some of Canada’s most significant mandates and have represented clients in many landmark cases. Reflecting the firm’s focus, our lawyers are consistently recognized as leaders in their chosen areas of practice and in the profession at large. WeirFoulds is committed to ensuring that our clients’ most sensitive data and information are secure, protected and confidential. Our digital security practices and data confidentiality processes have been thoroughly audited and certified as functioning at SOC 2 compliance level. No matter what our clients’ needs are, they can rest assured that their information is in safe hands. To learn more about our firm, visit www.weirfoulds.com.

Offices: 4100 - 66 Wellington Street West, Toronto-Dominion Centre, PO Box 35, Toronto, Ontario M5K 1B7, CA · 1525 Cornwall Road, Suite 10, Oakville, Ontario L6J 0B2, CA

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About WeirFoulds LLP

LinkedInVisit site
Industry
Law Practice
Company size
201-500 employees
Founded
1860
Headquarters
Toronto, Ontario
LinkedIn followers
11,404

For over 165 years, the lawyers of WeirFoulds have been proud to serve our clients in their most difficult and complex matters. We are the firm of choice for discerning clients within our core areas of practice: (1) Litigation; (2) Corporate; (3) Property; and (4) Government Law. Within these core areas, as well as key sub-specialties, we address highly sophisticated legal challenges. We have acted in some of Canada’s most significant mandates and have represented clients in many landmark cases. Reflecting the firm’s focus, our lawyers are consistently recognized as leaders in their chosen areas of practice and in the profession at large. WeirFoulds is committed to ensuring that our clients’ most sensitive data and information are secure, protected and confidential. Our digital security practices and data confidentiality processes have been thoroughly audited and certified as functioning at SOC 2 compliance level. No matter what our clients’ needs are, they can rest assured that their information is in safe hands. To learn more about our firm, visit www.weirfoulds.com.

Offices: 4100 - 66 Wellington Street West, Toronto-Dominion Centre, PO Box 35, Toronto, Ontario M5K 1B7, CA · 1525 Cornwall Road, Suite 10, Oakville, Ontario L6J 0B2, CA

LawLitigationCorporate LawProperty Leasing and Developmentand Government LawBuilding MaterialLegalConsultingReal EstateGovernment
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