Minimum mandatory criteria:
Education: Relevant certificate, diploma or degree from a recognized CanadianFootnote* post-secondary institution.
Experience: 48 months experience as a law clerk.
Typical duties in addition to those listed under Clerk, general may include:
- Managing ad hoc file assignments of daily events in relation to court and counsel
- Ensuring that all files have been properly screened prior to counsel’s receipt of documentation
- Conducting legal and factual research
- Responding to queries from investigators, defence counsel, crown and Senior counsels, support staff, and the general public in relation to case files
- Preparing a variety of legal documents (e.g. Orders, Motions, Affidavits, and applications for the prosecutors, etc.)
- Assisting lawyers by interviewing clients, witnesses and other related parties
- Assembling documentary evidence, preparing trial briefs, and arranging for trials
- Registering and assigning dockets to appropriate lawyer
- Compiling and coordinating trials and appeal reports
- Organizing, coordinating the completion of a weekly report and distributing the report to counsel
- Attending and speaking to matters at Court
- Training new articling or summer students in the procedures of the Federal Court
- Participating with senior management in the allocation and distribution of cases by maintaining an inventory of upcoming unallocated prosecutions via a weekly report
- Providing advice and guidance to support staff
- Responding to enquiries from staff counsel and outside agencies, with respect to policies, procedures and statutes
