Position
Contract Lawyer – Research Memo Project

Date Listed:
7/8/2010 12:37:00 PM

Location(s):
ON - Toronto

Description:

Bennett Jones LLP is a top tier, full service national law firm with offices in Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton and Ottawa.  Bennett Jones has been named one of the top 50 employers in Canada by Report on Business Magazine/Hewitt Associates for eight consecutive years, ranking 4th overall in 2010.

We are currently recruiting for the following role in our Toronto Office:
Contract Lawyer – Research Memo Project

REPORTS TO: National Director, Knowledge Management

ROLE: This position is for a one-year or six-month contract to manage and execute a project to migrate research memoranda and other reference materials from an existing system to the Firm's new state-of-the-art intranet.

DUTIES: 
• Screening research memoranda for inclusion in the knowledge management repository
• Reviewing, organizing and classifying research memoranda, articles and other resources
• Preparing brief summaries of materials reviewed for quick reference by users
• Assisting in the creation of a legal topics taxonomy

ATTRIBUTES: 
• The ideal candidate will have previous experience as a research lawyer and/or knowledge management lawyer with a large firm and will possess excellent legal drafting, research and organizational skills with exposure to a broad range of the law.  An Ontario or Alberta call is an asset.

HOW TO APPLY: Interested applicants are to apply in writing to:

Human Resources
Bennett Jones Services Limited Partnership
3400 One First Canadian Place
P.O. Box 130
Toronto, ON M5X 1A4

Fax: 416.863.1716
E-mail: hrdepttor@bennettjones.com

by no later than July 23, 2010.