Regulatory Law Clerk

The role

WeirFoulds is seeking a Regulatory Law Clerk with 3+ years of experience to join their Regulatory Law Practice Group in Toronto. This role will primarily focus on administrative and public law litigation, including matters related to discipline, fitness to practice, and registration proceedings for regulated professions.

What you'll do

• Organize and manage files (responsible for ensuring deadlines are met)
• Review client documents
• Prepare documents and briefs for various types of proceedings, including civil litigation, hearings, appeals, and judicial reviews
• Provide support to other litigation team members when required
• Review client documents and preparing affidavits of documents/disclosure briefs
• Prepare agreements and other legal documents with some direction, often from precedents
• Prepare hearing and appeal/judicial review materials in accordance with the various Rules of Procedures and Practice Directions
• Trial preparation including preparing document briefs and compendiums
• Assist in the preparation of both lawyers and clients for examinations and hearings
• Schedule examinations for discovery and prepare notices of examination
• Review and summarize transcripts of examinations and prepare charts of undertakings, refusals, and under advisements
• Review and assemble answers to undertakings
• Assist with scheduling of witnesses, conducting witness interviews, preparing witness statements and briefs and preparing and serving summonses
• Attend at hearings to assist counsel and clients, when required
• Prepare bills of cost and costs outlines
• Prepare draft default judgments or orders
• Prepare charts, chronologies and summaries of documentary evidence for use in hearings
• Prepare correspondence
• Act as commissioner to take oaths
• Perform other duties as assigned

What we're looking for

Benefits