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About the Role
By Lawyers is seeking a knowledgeable and detail-oriented legal professional to develop and maintain Canadian practice guides, focusing on Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta. This role involves legal research, editorial writing, and practical legal expertise to ensure content is current and to create new guides. You will also engage with lawyers and law firms to demonstrate products and gather feedback, playing a key role in delivering high-quality legal content.
Responsibilities
- Keep the Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta guides current by monitoring legislative amendments, new case law, practice directions and form changes, and revising commentaries, precedents and matter plans as needed.
- Write new guides from the ground up: scope the matter type, draft the commentary and the precedent suite, and build the matter plan for publication.
- Research points of law and practice across Canadian jurisdictions and turn them into clear, practical guidance for practitioners.
- Work to the By Lawyers house style and editorial process, taking work through review and publication with publication and quality teams.
- Demonstrate By Lawyers products to lawyers and law firms, online and in person, as a credible subject matter expert.
- Respond to client questions and feedback.
- Collaborate with colleagues in Canada, Australia, the UK and New Zealand.
Requirements
- LL.B. or J.D. degree with active membership in good standing with a Canadian Law Society; Called to the Bar in Ontario or another Canadian common law jurisdiction.
- Experienced, licensed paralegals or law clerks in Ontario will also be considered.
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience as a practising lawyer, OR 7 years' as a paralegal or law clerk, in one or more practice areas.
- Must be currently legally eligible to work in Canada without sponsorship.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills with the ability to write for practitioners rather than for a court or a client.
- Strong organizational and project management abilities with a focus on quality and detail.
- Strong legal research and analytical skills with good judgment.
- Strong presentation skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word (including styles, tracked changes and comments) and Outlook.
- Attention to detail and the discipline to work steadily through a large volume of content without losing accuracy.
- Independent, proactive and curious.
- Highly accountable to effectively manage your own workload and meet publication deadlines.
- Experience working in more than one of Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta jurisdictions (asset).
- Experience with or working knowledge of workflow tools e.g. Trello and Confluence (asset).
- Legal publishing, precedent drafting or knowledge management experience (asset).
- Familiarity with LEAP or other legal practice management software (asset).
- Comfortable using AI tools in a professional workflow (asset).
Skills
- Legal research
- Editorial writing
- Practical legal expertise
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Organizational skills
- Project management
- Legal research
- Analytical skills
- Presentation skills
- Microsoft Word proficiency
- Microsoft Outlook proficiency
- Attention to detail
- Independent work
- Proactive
- Curious
- Accountability
- Workflow tools
- Legal publishing
- Precedent drafting
- Knowledge management
- LEAP software
- AI tools
Location
- Toronto
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience as a practising lawyer
- 7 years' as a paralegal or law clerk
Education Level
- LL.B. or J.D. degree
- Active membership in good standing with a Canadian Law Society
- Called to the Bar in Ontario or another Canadian common law jurisdiction
- Licensed paralegals or law clerks in Ontario
Salary/Compensations
- $80,000 CAD - $100,000 CAD annually
Benefits
- Excellent group insurance benefits
- RRSP with employer matching
- Generous Paid Time Off (PTO), including starting at 4 weeks’ vacation, sick days, floater/personal days and volunteer days
About the Company
- By Lawyers creates practical, trusted legal resources that help lawyers work more efficiently and confidently.
- By Lawyers publishes practical legal guides for lawyers in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and New Zealand.
- Each guide pairs a commentary written for practitioners with a full suite of precedents, delivered through a matter plan.
- Our content is written by lawyers, for lawyers.
- Our Canadian guides cover Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta across real estate, family law, wills and estates, civil litigation, corporate law, and practice management, with the list growing.
- By Lawyers exclusively integrates with LEAP Legal Software.
- LEAP Legal Software (Canada) Limited manages Canadian payroll and employment benefits for By Lawyers.
Equal Opportunity
- At By Lawyers we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible environment.
- We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the community in which we live, including those with disabilities.
- By Lawyers is committed to providing accommodations in all parts of the hiring process.
- If you require accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.