Solicitor

File Number: 1016
Service Area: Legal Services
Division: City Solicitor's Office
Employee Group: Mgmt Non Union
Job Type: Full-Time Permanent
Number of Openings: 1

Summary of Duties:

Focus: Civil Litigation

Reporting to and under the general supervision of the City Solicitor, acts as solicitor, counsel and advisor to The Corporation of the City of London in legal matters generally of average or above average complexity, requiring an appropriate degree of experience, skill and competence.

Work Performed:

• Acts as solicitor, counsel and advisor, or assists more senior counsel, in all aspects of one or more of the following areas of the practice of law, as assigned by the City Solicitor.
• Municipal law enforcement and provincial offences, administrative tribunals, business law (including but not restricted to banking, bills of exchange, bankruptcy and insolvency, business and no-share corporations, bulk sales, carriers, construction liens, copyright, trade marks and protection of intellectual property, and trade and commerce), contracts, civil litigation and procedure (including but not restricted to negligence and other torts), debtors and creditors, personal and real property, and real estate (including but not restricted to easements, expropriations, mortgages, secured transactions, landlord and tenant, trespass, and water and water courses) environmental law, municipal corporations (including but not restricted to municipal assessment and taxation, public authorities and officers, public utilities, and social welfare), highways and streets (including but not restricted to highway traffic), labour relations, (including but not restricted to opinions regarding discipline and discharge, arbitration, judicial reviews, Workers' Compensation Benefits and Worker's Compensation Appeal Tribunal Hearings and employment law, in general), insurance, and land use planning.
• Discharges such other responsibilities as may be assigned by the City Solicitor.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Laws or Juris Doctor and membership in good standing in the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Skills and Abilities:

• Three to five years, preferably in municipal law.
• Able to speak, write and read French at an advanced level is an asset.

Compensation & Other Information:

$112,978 - $148, 226

This posting is for one (1) permanent, full-time position.

Standard hours of Work: Monday - Friday from 8:30a.m. to 4:30p.m.

Work Arrangement: Hybrid.

These hours of work and work arrangements are subject to change in accordance to business requirements.

Police Record Check

The successful candidate will be required to complete a Criminal Record Check.

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