Law Clerk, Real Estate Municipal Planning, Land Use and Development

Law Clerk, Real Estate [Municipal Planning, Land Use and Development]

Toronto, ON, CA

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This role is an opportunity for you to join Canada's Global Law Firm, a firm that offers opportunities to build your career while growing your skills and deepening your expertise.

POSITION SUMMARY

Our Toronto office is currently seeking a Law Clerk to join our Municipal Planning, Land Use and Development Group
. The role requires a confident, collaborative, reliable and self‑motivated professional who can manage a high volume of fast‑paced and complex assignments, with an ability to adopt to shifting priorities and produce high‑quality work product to meet deliverables under condensed timelines. The successful candidate will bring municipal, land use and development experience and project management skills
, and be able to provide exceptional service to our internal teams and our clients.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Legal drafting, review and analysis

• Draft and review a wide range of legal documents and correspondence, including agreements, and client communications, ensuring that compliance with regulatory and internal standards.
• Review and analyze multifaceted technical reports and municipal approvals to support negotiation and drafting of legal agreements and documents.
• Coordinate or conduct title reviews and resolve related issues.
• Prepare and manage filings with the Ontario Land Tribunal, courts, councils, committees, and administrative tribunals, applying strong attention to detail, procedure and documentation standards.
• Define and clarify scopes of retainer, including appeals, agreements, easements, opinions, and miscellaneous municipal legal matters.
• Support internal legal team with project meetings for clients, consultants and internal team.
• Identify and escalated legal or operational risks recommending corrective actions to support resolution that provides appropriate resolution.
• Manage a high volume of complex legal matters, with an ability to monitor and manage multiple projects simultaneously at varying stages.
• Provide training, coaching and mentorship on various matters including legal drafting, client communications, project workflows, and best practices for the team, as needed.

Reporting and project management

• Support the overall functioning of the team from a project management perspective by overseeing processes, documentation, legal technology/training, and by developing and refining internal workflows, templates and best practices to enhance operational efficiency and client service delivery.
• Oversee deliverables and deadlines by engaging with internal teams and external stakeholders at all project phases (e.g., project initiation, planning, execution, delivery, control and close‑out activities) and providing proactive recommendations.
• Oversee reporting, identify potential risk or problem areas, recommending risk management strategies and/or corrective action as required and supporting their implementation to ensure continued alignment with team, project strategy and client expectations.
• Oversee comprehensive and timely reporting across the portfolio, monitoring progress and performance against work plans and objectives; compiling and organizing timely statistics for annual reports and project overviews with accuracy; and recommending improvements as needed.

Requirements

• Law Clerk diploma from an accredited university or college (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
• Formal project management qualification (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2, Six Sigma, Lean or Black…