Real Estate Law Clerk - Guelph, Canada - McElderry & Morris

Description

Job description

McElderry & Morris Law Firm is hiring a Residential & Commercial Real Estate Law Clerk to join our existing team in Guelph for a full-time position, with an immediate start. Willing to pay fair market compensation including bonus based on experience and benefits.


Job Duties:

The job duties include, but are not limited to:

• Manage files (purchase, sale, financing, loans, etc.) from beginning to end, for both residential and commercial transactions, including drafting all documents, correspondence and reporting
• Manage mortgage transactions, including drafting all mortgage documents, correspondence with solicitors for lenders and borrowers, ensuring timely funding of mortgage and reporting
• Assisting in correcting or fixing title issues, as required
• Scheduling of appointments and attending to the delivery and receipt of closing documents and closing proceeds
• Place title insurance
• Perform electronic registrations
• Read and interpret title/writ/execution/PPSA searches and determine when offtitle searches are required
• Prepare and calculate final ledgers and determine final amounts due from and owing to clients
• Communicate with clients, other law firms and financial institutions

Qualifications and Skills:

• Minimum 5 years of experience working as a Law Clerk in Residential/Commercial Real Estate
• Law clerk diploma
• Detailoriented, organized with strong time management skills
• Ability to work effectively with little supervision and have a high attention to detail
• Proficiency with Teraview, Stewart Assyst, Unity and the entire MS Office suite
• Perform under pressure, meet deadlines and handle multiple files
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Able to work both independently and as a member of a team

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent


Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

- legal assistant: 5 years (required)


Work Location:
In person