Legal Technician (Temporary, 8 months)

Do you believe it's possible to simplify the most complex matters?

SOQUIJ is hiring to make legal information simpler and more accessible to everyone. Your talent can build a career with us!

As a Legal Technician at SOQUIJ, your responsibilities include:

• Receiving judgments from judicial courts, verifying them, and preparing them for dissemination.
• Gathering doctrinal articles from various sources, verifying them, and preparing them for dissemination.
• Analyzing the scope of all received corrective or amended judgments and electronically merging them with the judgments they rectify or substituting them for the original judgment.
• Performing or verifying redactions of decisions while ensuring compliance with applicable rules.
• Acting as a point of contact for organizations, decision-makers, clerks, or judge's assistants to answer their questions and request information when needed.
• Verifying, analyzing, and completing information regarding previous instances of decisions and their earlier references.
• Creating, updating, and verifying the history of decisions published by SOQUIJ.
• Verifying the accuracy of all references, citations, and excerpts of case law, doctrine, and legislation in judgments.
• Monitoring provincial and federal legislation as well as new doctrinal publications.
• Updating documentary authority databases and documentary rules.
• Verifying the integrity of Express and addressing any non-compliance issues.
• Ensuring the formatting compliance of translated judgments before dissemination.
• Preparing, transforming, and sending electronic files of selected decisions for publication in Express.

Qualifications:

• DEC in legal techniques.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience in similar roles.
• Practical experience with the Star database or any content management system (an asset).
• Good knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite.
• Understanding of legal documentation rules.
• Familiarity with legal research methodologies.
• Knowledge of various decision-making bodies.
• Demonstrated precision and attention to detail.
• Ability to work well in a team.
• Strong organizational and responsibility skills.
• Effective oral and written communication.

We look forward to meeting you!