Duty Counsel - Cornwall, Canada - Legal Aid Ontario
Description
Union:
The Society
- Job Number: J
- Job Title: Duty Counsel
- Family & Criminal
- French Bilingual (12 month)
- Job Type: Contract
- City, Province, Country: Cornwall, Ontario, Canada
- Job Location: Cornwall
- Job Category: Legal
- Job Classification: SL
- Role Designation:
- LAO Workplace Based
- Role is physically based in an in-person LAO workplace
- Open Positions:
- Posting Date: May 17, 202
- Closing Date: May 31, 2023
- Salary: $83, $142,422.00/Year
As an integral partner in the Justice system, working at Legal Aid Ontario is more than just a job.
It's an opportunity to help people who need it the most; to ensure each client receives the access to justice afforded to them under the law.
If you are looking for a new challenge in your already meaningful career with a team dedicated to justice, and innovation in a flexible and supportive work environment consider this opportunity below.
Primary function:
This Duty Counsel will be required provide criminal and family duty counsel services in Cornwall and occasionally at the satellite offices of Morrisburg and/or Alexandria.
Criminal Duty Counsel is responsible for providing client service for criminal law matters in the courthouse, both virtually and in person.
Criminal Duty Counsel will be responsible for the intake and assessment of criminal law clients to determine the appropriate service for those charged with criminal offences, including but not limited to providing procedural and summary legal advice; drafting and reviewing criminal court documents; in court representation at various stages of criminal court proceedings; and other duties as assigned.
Family Duty Counsel is responsible for providing client service for family law matters in the courthouse, both virtually and in person.
Family Duty Counsel will be responsible for the intake and assessment of family law clients to determine the appropriate service for the clients, including but not limited to providing procedural and summary legal advice; drafting, reviewing and commissioning of family court documents and pleadings such as Applications, Answers, Motions, Affidavits and Financial Statements; in court representation at various stages of a family court and/or child protection proceeding; and other duties as assigned.
As a result of the pandemic, services are currently being provided both virtually and on site, with mínimal "on-site" supervision.
This position will appeal to a lawyer experienced in a broad range of criminal and family proceedings who can effectively navigate the demands of a busy workplace, both in-person and remotely.
Home Location:
Cornwall
Secondary:
Satellite Courts - Alexandria and Morrisburg
Reports to:
Manager of Duty Counsel Services, Eastern District
Key accountabilities:
- Act as Criminal and Family Duty Counsel
- Representing clients both inperson and remotely
- Ensure high quality of legal work in a cost effective manner
- File management as per LAO requirements including use of computer technology; data input for statistics measurements in a timely manner
Criminal law:
- Assisting unrepresented clients who have been charged with criminal matters
- Representing clients at bail hearings, guilty pleas and remands both inperson and remotely
- Assessing clients' needs, including the early identification of vulnerable clients, to facilitate referrals to appropriate services.
- Provide criminal law services as defense counsel in the Ontario Court of Justice
- Providing assistance and representation at federal, provincial, and youth, remand, bail and plea courts, including specialty courts (Drug Treatment Court / Mental Health Court / Gladue Court)
- Providing summary legal advice (SLA)
- Interviewing clients, sureties, and witnesses
- Disclosure review and Crown pretrials meetings
- Assisting with various motions and hearings (may include trials), including judicial pretrials
- Preparing and arguing bail hearings
- Other duties as assigned
Family law:
- Advocate for clients in court and on court forms
- Provide family law duty counsel services, including providing instructions to Legal Aid Workers (and students), preparation of court documents for eligible clients, make appropriate referrals when required, including to mediation services
- Providing representation in the Superior Court of Justice (Unified Family Court) at first appearances, conferences, motions, negotiations, Family Responsibility Office (FRO) matters, Children's Aid Societies matters and other court hear
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