Success with balance

We recognize the essential role our professional support staff plays.

Our professional support staff plays a vital role in the client experience. We believe everyone deserves to be valued and respected in a spirit of collaboration and with the right balance between work and family life.


Available positions

Legal Assistant in Commercial Law

Spiegel Sohmer was established in 1967 with a mission to provide comprehensive, creative, and state-of-the-art legal solutions on a timely basis. With expertise in tax law, intellectual property, business law, litigation, real estate law, and succession, Spiegel Sohmer is brilliant in turning legal problems into business opportunities and solutions you may never have imagined possible.

 

Working at Spiegel Sohmer means contributing to solutions that break from the ordinary. We rely heavily on open collaboration and exchange of ideas in an informal environment where mutual respect rules.

 

We currently have a great opportunity for a Legal Assistant in Commercial Law.

 

Main responsibilities:

  • Proactively assist the lawyer in the management and follow-up of his files
  • Plan workload and ensure timely completion, including implementation of follow-up actions as appropriate
  • Prepare legal documents according to templates or as directed by lawyer
  • Maintain agenda and files
  • Draft letters, memos, and any other documents required by the lawyer
  • Format, proofread, and edit documents
  • Prepare and layout PowerPoint presentations for conferences as directed by lawyer
  • Keep track of client files to ensure proper management and appropriate customer service
  • Perform tasks of an administrative nature such as opening and closing files, conflict searches, time entry, billing, credit notes, filing, etc.
  • Perform other related duties

 

Qualifications and Competencies:

  • Minimum 5 years of relevant commercial law experience
  • Excellent knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite
  • Excellent skills in French and English, oral and written
  • Good knowledge of Kofax/Nuance PDF
  • Alertness: quick understanding of the objectives and the means to be implemented, resourcefulness, autonomy, proactivity

 

Benefits of working with us:

  • A great working atmosphere in a healthy environment
  • Competitive salaries
  • Group insurance (medication, dental, vision and other medical services)
  • RRSP with employer contribution
  • 3 weeks and more of vacation
  • 8 personal days refundable at the end of the year if not taken
  • Annual bonus
  • Telemedicine service
  • Telecommuting (2 days at home / 3 days at the office)
  • Summer Schedule (Friday afternoons off)
  • Social activities throughout the year

 

Interested candidates are invited to send their cover letter and curriculum vitae to Julie Gamache, Director of Human Resources and Operations (jgamache@spiegelsohmer.com).

Estate planning Lawyer or Notary (3 to 5 years and 5 to 7 years of experience)

Our tax and estate planning department, comprised of over twenty lawyers, continues to grow. We are presently looking for a lawyer or a notary (2 positions) with 3 to 5 years and with 5 to 7 years of experience.

 

The candidate we are seeking will be involved in the drafting of wills, mandates and trusts, in preparing and implementing post-mortem tax planning, as well as administering and liquidating estates.

 

Perfectly bilingual, the ideal candidate will have excellent drafting and negotiating skills.

 

Interested candidates are invited to send their cover letter and résumé to Me Justine Benoit (jbenoit@spiegelsohmer.com).