Job Description: Personal Injury Legal Assistant/Clerk

Company: Mirian Law Firm
Location: Thornhill, Ontario (Uptown)
Job Category: Litigation
Job Type: Full-Time
Salary: $40000-45000 - Annual

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Personal Injury Legal Assistant/Clerk

Mirian Law Firm is currently seeking a managing Law Clerk / legal assistant looking to grow with our firm.

A successful candidate will have the following credentials:

• Strong familiarity of rules of civil procedure and Statutory Accident Benefits
• At-least 2 year of experience as a law clerk in a personal injury firm
• Self-starter
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Flexible
• Excellent organizational skills is a must
• Ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment
• works cooperatively within a team structure and fosters a sense of teamwork with the broader office support staff.

• strong attention to detail and the ability to identify the relevance of those details; and if you have the interpersonal skills to foster a positive sense of teamwork
• Ability to speak farsi is a plus

Duties

• Organize legal documents
• Open personal injury files
• Working with conveyancer, PClaw
• Produce billing
• Following up with undertakings, client reporting, and intakes
• Drafting and production of letters to insurance companies, doctors, OHIP, police etc.
• Administrative tasks---scanning, photocopying, answering phones, scheduling meetings, coordinating with clients and respective counsels etc.
• Draft pleadings, Affidavit of Documents, Settlement proposals, motion records, trial records, Statements of Issues, pre-trial memorandum, pre-arbitration memorandums;

• Review files and summarize documents, including medical reports, employment records etc. emphasizing themes set out in file theory;

• Identify files ready for settlement discussions or appropriate to prepare for settlement conferences;

• Prepare claims forms for accident benefits and submit them to the insurer, including meeting with client to obtain any information or documentation required;

• Monitor insurer responses to claims forms and take follow-up action as necessary;

Understand all major concepts relating to AB claim, mediation and arbitration proceedings;

• Identify issues that require the attention of the lawyer, and bring them to his or her attention, including;

• Rehabilitation and medical needs that may not be being met;

• Note in Time Matters and keep track of limitation dates arising from denials of benefits;

• Prepare Applications for Mediation and Arbitration;

• Schedule a variety of events and complete corresponding tasks;

• Examinations for discovery (send Notices of Examination and communication to client),

• Expert Witness appointments (advise client, prepare and send medical brief in a timely fashion),

• LAT case conferences, pre-arbitration hearings, motions, pre-trial hearings, meditations;

• Draft Affidavits of Documents, summarize discovery transcripts, monitors defendant productions;

• Understand all major concepts relating to tort proceedings;

• Draft mediation and pre-trial memos and prepare briefs;

• Monitor defense medicals;

• Assist with trial preparation including summons to witnesses and date coordination with experts;

• Assist in organizing files, sort and brat new filing, prepare file indexes;

• Request and review medical documentation;

• Prepare pleadings for tort claims and claims for Accident Benefits;

• Request documentation to advance a personal injury claim;

• Communicate with adjusters and lawyers to coordinate events and facilitate the production of documents;

• Other duties as assigned.