Legal Assistants/Paralegals
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Lawyer or Articling Student
We are hiring a lawyer, or an articling student, to establish a long-term career in the community. Please visit www.arnold-arnold.ca for more information about the firm. Please visit www.highriver.ca/discover for more information about the many benefits of working and living in High River.
Lawyer Annual Salary: $85,000.00 (first-year lawyer), or more depending on experience
Articling Student Annual Salary: $65,000.00
Annual Bonuses: Depending on individual, department, and firm performance
Benefits: None
Vacation: Three weeks as accrued during the year and the firm is typically closed the last week of December depending on Land Titles Office’s schedule
Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to noon and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., unless clients’ circumstances require appointments after regular hours
Start Date: As soon as possible
Work Location: In office at 16 – 2 Avenue SE, High River, Alberta
Skills and Requirements:
- Ideally, two to five years of experience with real estate, wills, enduring powers of attorney, personal directives, estates, and small corporations
- Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school
- Licenced to practice law in Alberta, or entitled to be an articling student in Alberta
- Applicants with a realtor licence will not be considered due to the conflict of interest
- Committed to establishing a long-term career in a rural community
- Friendly, positive, calm, collaborative, and hardworking
- Strong interpersonal skills to serve a variety of clients and work well with the team
- Self-motivated and able to work in a fast-paced environment, think critically, and solve complex problems
- Eventually able to work autonomously and with minimal guidance
- Review conveyancing, mortgage instructions, various searches, real property reports, compliance letters, advisory letters, corporate minute books, legislation, Land Titles Office’s manuals, and other documents
- Review and draft contracts, mortgage and other security documents, trust letters, wills, enduring powers of attorney, personal directives, Grant of Probate or Administration applications, various corporate documents, and other documents
- Notarize and commission documents
- Well before client meetings, review documents drafted by paralegals for accuracy
- Work with paralegals to ensure files are processed correctly from start to finish
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Draft and send various correspondence
- High attention to detail
- Highly organized, maintain a clean and tidy workspace, and prioritize a high volume of tasks to meet deadlines
- Answer calls and emails from clients, realtors, lenders, lawyers, and others
- Work with paralegals to report to clients and lenders accurately and on time
- Complete other tasks as required by the managing lawyer
- Full knowledge of Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel, and Outlook
- Use Microsoft Outlook to schedule appointments and diarize important tasks
- Ideally, experience with Lawyer Done Deal, LEAP, SPIN, Adobe PDF, FCT/LLC, and Surrogate Digital Service
- A strong interest in eventually becoming a partner or purchasing the firm
Please email your cover letter and resume on or before November 28, 2025 to Tyler Arnold at tyler@arnold-arnold.ca. If you are a recent law school graduate, please also include your law school transcript. Only candidates of interest will be contacted for an interview.