Associate Lawyer - Labour & Employment

As Canada’s largest regional law firm, our client’s reputation has been built on providing exceptional legal services to leading businesses in Canada.  They have consecutively been named as one of the best law firms in Canada by the Globe and Mail.

Serving a diverse national client base, their integrated network of offices Canada wide, provides clients with access to the Firm’s full spectrum of capabilities in virtually every area of the law. Whether an issue is local or multi-jurisdictional, practice-area specific or interdisciplinary, our client handles transactions of all sizes and levels of complexity.

Our clients established Labour & Employment practice group is now actively looking to add an energetic, motivated and client-focused Labour & Employment associate to their team of experts in their Calgary office.

Qualifications and Attributes:

• 3-7 years of post call labour and employment law experience from a reputable national, regional or boutique firm;
• Experience in advising and representing employers in all areas of employment and labour law including: implications of corporate transactions and reorganizations;
• Experience in labour arbitrations, and/or administrative tribunals would be considered an asset;
• Experience with employment contracts and executive compensation, workers’ compensation, pay equity and employment equity;
• Experience in occupational health and safety prosecutions, human rights, employment standards, privacy, terminations, layoffs and workplace investigation;
• Excellent academic credentials;
• Superior communication, drafting skills and strong attention to detail.

Our client is offering the following:

• Lock-step tier one base salary
• Lucrative bonus structure
• Full benefits including an additional health and wellness top up
• Educational incentives
• Future partnership opportunity

Candidates are asked to submit their resume in confidence to Stacy Cowan at: stacy@urbanlegal.ca

At Urban Legal Recruitment we guarantee discretion and confidentiality. We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.