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    Senior Legal Counsel - Toronto, ON, Canada - Employment and Social Development Canada

    Employment and Social Development Canada
    Employment and Social Development Canada Toronto, ON, Canada

    3 weeks ago

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    Legal Counsel - A career at the Ontario Regional Office (Inventory)

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    Department of Justice Canada- National Litigation Sector - Ontario Regional Office
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    Persons residing in Canada, and Canadian citizens and Permanent residents abroad. Apply online

    The responses must clearly demonstrate, with the use of concrete examples, how you meet the occupational certification and experience factors listed under the essential qualifications, as well as any of the asset experience qualifications that may apply.

    Specific examples and details of tasks, projects, or accomplishments demonstrating how the experience was acquired (HOW).
    Your ability to communicate in writing may be assessed throughout your application.

    The tradition of excellence at the Department of Justice is embodied in its culture, which values inclusiveness, fairness and respect for Canada's legal system.

    The Department of Justice is often described as Canada's largest and most prestigious law firm. The Department makes and upholds federal laws and is the guardian of the Canadian justice system.

    By setting for itself the highest standards of integrity, fairness and professionalism, the Department of Justice has earned a reputation as a leader within the legal community.

    You can make your mark as Legal Counsel in the Ontario Regional Office as part of a team working to ensure that Canada has an accessible, efficient and fair system of justice.

    You will be collaborating with lawyers who are national leaders in their areas of practice, working on high profile, cutting edge and socially significant litigation.

    Apply your experience and legal knowledge in these key areas of practice:


    • Administrative Segregation Unit
    • Immigration Law Division
    • Litigation, Extradition, and Advisory Law Division (LEAD)
    • Tax Law Services Division**For more details about these divisions, please see the OTHER INFORMATION section.

    No matter what your expertise, you will benefit from Justice Canada's supportive atmosphere, emphasis on training and mentoring, commitment to equitable workplace policies, and the ability to balance the personal and professional aspects of your life.

    The immediate need is to staff 30+ positions for various tenures (term or indeterminate) in the Ontario Regional Office (Toronto) in the Tax Law Services Division and the Administrative Segregation Unit.

    A pool of partially or fully qualified candidates may be established to staff similar positions within the Department of Justice in the Ontario Regional Office (Toronto) with various tenures, various language requirements, operational requirements, organizational needs and/or conditions of employment.

    Any indeterminate appointments at the LP-01 group and level resulting from this process will be made under the Justice Canada LP-01 Training and Development Program.

    This program provides for the progression of participants from LP-00 (articling student) to LP-02 (counsel) over approximately 5 years. Experience gained providing legal services (i.e. working on legal and/or legal policy matters) as counsel, articling student, or law clerk to a judge.
    Knowledge of recent and significant case law relevant to the position(s) to be staffed.
    Ability to identify legal issues and recommend solutions.

    ASSET QUALIFICATIONS

    • Experience in tax law
    • Experience in civil litigation
    • Experience in administrative law
    • Experience in Crown law
    • Experience in tort law
    • Experience in Aboriginal law
    • Experience in immigration law
    • Experience in extradition law
    • Experience in mutual legal assistance
    • Experience in national security law
    • Experience conducting litigation in the Tax Court of Canada
    • Experience conducting litigation before the Federal Court and/or Federal Court of Appeal
    • Experience conducting litigation before the superior courts of a province or territory of Canada
    • Experience conducting hearings before administrative tribunals
    • Experience conducting document review exercises using litigation software (Ringtail, Nuix or similar)

    The Department of Justice believes that to be able to effectively serve the public, its workforce needs to reflect the diversity of the Canadian population.

    Diversity is a great source of strength in driving Canada's Legal Team in ensuring that Canada's justice system is as fair, accessible and efficient as possible.

    If you are a woman, an Indigenous person, a person with a disability, a member of a racialized group* or a member of the 2SLGBTQIA+**/ Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) community, we encourage you to self-declare in this staffing process.


    • 2SLGBTQIA+: Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual and people who identify as being part of sexual and gender diverse communities.

    Self-declaration information can be factored into the screening, assessment, or selection decision to address our commitment to eliminate gaps and increase representation for these groups.

    If you are an Indigenous person, a woman, a member of a racialized group, or a person with a disability, self-declaration information will be collected via your job application profile, under the Employment Equity section.


    • If you are a member of the 2SLGBTQIA+/ Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) communities, self-declaration information will be collected via a non-screening question in your job application. Remain a member in good standing of the Law Society of Ontario.
    Periodically available on call after hours for motions duty (for immigration positions in the Ontario Regional Office).

    The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve.

    Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice. Please indicate your preferred official language(s) in your application.
    Proof of citizenship or permanent residency will be required.

    You may be required to meet the asset qualifications or the organizational needs, depending on the requirements of the specific position being staffed.

    INFORMATION ABOUT LAW DIVISIONS Tax Law Services Division - Tax LP-01s work on informal procedure hearings before the Tax Court of Canada, judicial review hearings before the Federal Court, and bankruptcy discharge hearings at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, among other duties.


    • LP01s in IRRD handle a variety of civil litigation work before tribunals, Provincial Courts, and Federal Courts. Indigenous rights, land and treaty claims, environmental law, administrative law, and constitutional law.
    Judicial Review hearings before the Federal Court; Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Hearings before the Tribunal

    LP-01's are also members of teams that deal with complex long-term litigation, primarily relating to Indigenous rights, title, land and treaty claims.


    • Litigation, Extradition, and Advisory Law Division (LEAD)
    • LP01s either assist more senior counsel or have independent carriage of a broad range of civil litigation matters. Our files cover a wide range of practice areas including, Class Actions, Constitutional, Administrative, Health, Transportation, Telecommunications, Tort, Public Safety, Human Rights, National Security, Border Security, Firearms, Bankruptcy, Insolvency, Labour and Employment, Food Safety, Health, Environment, and Social Welfare. Our counsel appear before administrative tribunals, federal courts, and provincial courts. Preference will be given to veterans first and then to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.
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