Senior Real Estate Law Clerk

The role

Blaney McMurtry LLP is seeking a highly experienced Senior Real Estate Law Clerk with 15+ years of law clerk experience to join its Real Estate group in Toronto. The role manages complex real estate and development matters with minimal supervision.

What you'll do

• Liaise with lawyers, clients, purchasers, lenders, title insurers, municipal offices, consultants, and other external parties to advance transactions and ensure matters are completed accurately, efficiently, and on time
• Draft, prepare, review, and revise correspondence and transaction documentation required for individual sales, development matters, financing transactions, title matters, and related real estate work
• Request, collect, review, and organize information from clients and external parties required to complete land registration requirements, title insurance matters, due diligence, and post-closing obligations
• Support development planning matters, including coordinating municipal applications, due diligence materials, planning-related documentation, and communications with municipalities, consultants, clients, and lawyers
• Assist with land development transactions, including subdivision, site plan, conveyancing, financing, registration, and related title matters
• Prepare and review documentation relating to severances, lot creation, easements, consents, transfers, applications, postponements, discharges, and other real estate development requirements
• Prepare interim and final statements of adjustments, forward statements and related documentation to clients for review and approval, and receive and organize all documentation and funds required to complete occupancy and final closings
• Conduct and review title searches, municipal inquiries, planning searches, execution searches, corporate searches, writ searches, and other off-title investigations
• Identify, summarize, and assist in resolving title, due diligence, registration, and closing issues, including escalating issues to lawyers where appropriate
• Prepare undertakings, directions, correspondence, and other documents relating to the disbursement of closing proceeds to lenders, clients, and other parties as required
• Prepare documentation and correspondence relating to commercial real estate lending, including security documentation, electronic registration documentation, discharge documentation, and related closing deliverables
• Communicate with title insurers, arrange title insurance coverage, review and comment on draft title insurance policies, coordinate title-related endorsements, and assist with resolving title insurance requirements and exceptions
• Prepare and review ancillary leasing documentation, including notices of lease, non-disturbance agreements, assignments, assumptions, acknowledgments, consents, and related registration documentation
• Provide guidance and support to junior clerks and assistants, assist with workflow management, help maintain department precedents and processes, and serve as a senior resource on technical real estate, title, registration, and closing issues
• Monitor critical dates, track closing deliverables, maintain organized files, ensure compliance with internal procedures, and perform other duties as required to support the Real Estate group

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