Support Staff

Bishop & McKenzie offers a wide range of opportunities at its offices in Edmonton and Calgary.

Our approach with clients and with staff is the same: we value excellence, effort and respect for people.

We want our team of personnel to have integrity, civility and an appreciation of the importance of family life. Our lawyers strive to create an environment of co-operation that sets the tone for agreeable, encouraging relationships with support staff. These qualities were established by the founding partners of Bishop & McKenzie and remain defining characteristics of our firm.

Bishop & McKenzie is always looking for conscientious and capable people to join our team. Please send your resume to our Human Resources department.

Job Postings

  • Legal Assistant

    Located In: EdmontonPosted: June 13, 2019

    Bishop & McKenzie LLP is currently accepting applications for a Legal Assistant to assist Collection Paralegals and Lawyers with unsecured collections files. We are looking for a full-time, enthusiastic, motivated person to work in a busy department.

    The successful candidate will have strong Microsoft Word and Excel skills, exceptional organizational skills, and be able to handle a wide variety of legal and administrative duties within the legal sphere. This includes the ability to prepare legal documents and correspondence, respond to telephone and email inquiries. You must also have a broad and thorough knowledge of the concepts and principles is essential to this role.

    Key Functions:
    • Capable of handling a busy practice with tight timelines
    • Processing various searches and legal documentation
    • Drafting and preparing of accounts
    • Ability to work independently and as part of a team
    • Critical thinking
    • Problem solving

    Responsibilities:
    • Opening files
    • Conducting Court House, Personal Property Registry, Land titles and other miscellaneous searches
    • Conducting digital dictation, preparing and revising documents and correspondence (demand letters, statements of claim, garnishee summons, writs of enforcement)
    • Communicating with debtors, process servers and managing the status of files
    • Updating the client database
    • Creating excel templates and calculating balances using MS Excel
    • Preparing internal accounting paperwork such as deposits, cheque requisitions, and payments
    • Maintaining and organizing files both electronically and in hard copy
    • Monitoring calendars, meeting deadlines
    • Managing client billings
    • Clerical duties: emailing/faxing documents daily
    • Assisting the paralegals with any urgent items

    Requirements:
    • Degree or Diploma specializing in Paralegal/Legal Assistant required
    • 1-2 years of previous work experience in a legal environment/legal assistant capacity is preferred
    • Strong knowledge of basic legal concepts, principles, and terminology
    • Thorough understanding of collections related statutes, court decisions, and legal documentation
    • Good research skills, utilizing both the Internet and traditional sources of information
    • Meticulous records maintenance skills

    We would like to thank all applicants; however only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

    Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

    Experience:
    • Legal Assistant: 1 year (Preferred)
    • Litigation: 1 year (Preferred)

    Education:
    • Secondary School (Preferred)

  • Corporate Paralegal

    Located In: CalgaryPosted: June 5, 2019

    Bishop & McKenzie LLP is currently accepting applications for a Corporate Paralegal to join their team. We are looking for a full-time, highly motivated person to provide exceptional support to our lawyers and clients. To thrive in this challenging role, you will embrace variety and have excellent communication, problem solving and interpersonal skills.

    Key Functions:
    • Prepare corporate record documents and resolutions
    • Effect CORES I, II, & III level filings
    • Extensive contact with personnel of various law firms and government entities in relation to Alberta, Federal and extra-provincial corporate matters
    • Responsible for keeping up to date on all new government and corporate registry policies and research Acts/Regulations
    • Create and maintain minute books

    Requirements:
    • Paralegal/Legal Assistant certification preferred, or an acceptable combination of education and experience
    • 5-10 years plus of direct work experience in a corporate paralegal capacity
    • CORES levels I, II & III
    • Critical thinking, analysis, and research skills are essential
    • Strong sense of ethics and the ability to handle sensitive or private information with tact and discretion; knowledge of data privacy laws.
    • Superior interpersonal skills to interact with employees, lawyers, clients, departments, and external agencies.
    • Proficient in recording time and billing of matters
    • Meticulous records maintenance skills
    • Strong customer service orientation
    • Ability to work independently
    • We would like to thank all applicants; however only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

    Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

    Experience:
    • Paralegal: 5 years (Preferred)

  • Financing Paralegal for Business Transactions

    Located In: CalgaryPosted: April 24, 2019

    Bishop & McKenzie LLP Calgary is currently accepting applications for a paralegal to assist lawyers practicing in the areas of Commercial Lending, Business Transactions, and Commercial Real Estate. We are looking for a full time, enthusiastic, motivated person to work in a busy department.

    The successful candidate should have strong Microsoft Word skills, exceptional organizational skills, and communication skills and be able to handle a wide variety of legal and administrative duties within the legal sphere. This includes the preparation of legal documents and correspondence, responding to inquiries and have a broad and thorough knowledge of concepts and principles is essential to this role.

    Key Functions:
    • Capable of handling busy practice with tight timelines;
    • Preparing documents including mortgages;
    • Drafting and preparing of accounts;
    • Ability to work independently and as a team;
    • Critical thinking;
    • Problem solving;

    Requirements;
    • Monitoring the flow of daily correspondence;
    • Drafting and proofreading routine correspondence, letters and other related documents; General Assignments, General Security Agreements, Trust letters and Statement of adjustments;
    • Ordering and completing searches from various municipal and government departments and numerous websites including SPINN II, Alberta Personal Property Registry, and Cores;
    • Prepare and examine Transfer, Caveat, Discharge and other land titles documents and submit same to Land Titles office for registration;
    • Reviewing searches, preparing reports;
    • Responding to inquiries, Good communication skills;
    • Maintaining files, entering time and preparing billings;
    • Prioritizing workflow;

    To thrive in this challenging role you will embrace variety and have excellent communication, problem solving and interpersonal skills. We are looking to fill the position starting May 2019.

  • Residential Real Estate Paralegal – Six Month Term

    Located In: EdmontonPosted: March 29, 2019

    Are you energized by a busy workday? Do you like to develop and follow standardized processes? Do you strive to work smarter? Do you enjoy working with and learning from others? Are you adaptable?

    Bishop & McKenzie LLP is currently accepting applications for a residential real estate paralegal on a six (6) month term. This includes the preparation of legal documents, communication with clients, banks, mortgage brokers, realtors and lawyers whether by phone, e-mail or correspondence. Familiarity with Practice Tracker Real Estate software would be an asset. We are looking for a full time highly motivated person to provide exceptional support to our lawyers and clients.

    Key Functions:

    • Prepare residential real estate files from opening to closing;
    • Process purchase transactions, prepare mortgages, refinancing and supplemental documents, report to mortgages and purchaser in a timely manner
    • Prepare sales transactions, trust letters, deposit funds to meet closing dates;
    • Prepare interim/final reports, client accounts and correspondence;
    • Maintain client files and diarize critical deadlines;
    • Ability to work independently and as a team ;
    • Critical thinking;
    • Problem solving;

    Requirements;

    • At least three years of direct work experience in Residential Real Estate;
    • Monitoring the flow of daily correspondence;
    • Reviewing searches, preparing reports;
    • Superior interpersonal skills to interact with employees, lawyers, clients, departments, and external agencies;
    • High level of sound and independent judgment, reasoning, and diplomacy;
    • Meticulous records maintenance skills;
    • Maintain client files and diarize critical deadlines;
    • Prioritizing workflow;

    To thrive in this challenging role you will embrace variety and have excellent communication, problem solving and interpersonal skills. We are looking to fill the position starting April, 2019.

Human Resources Contact:

We offer a full benefits package and holiday entitlement in the first year and an employer-contributed RRSP. Qualified applicants are asked to forward their resumes in strict confidence to:

Attn: Trevor Joyal
Director of Administration
Bishop & McKenzie LLP
2300, 10180 - 101 St. NW
Edmonton, AB T5J 1V3
Fax (780) 426-1305
E-Mail: tjoyal@bmllp.ca

We thank all applicants for their interest. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to queries individually and only those selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls or agencies, please.