SCI Lease Corp is seeking a Bilingual Paralegal to support regulatory, legal, and compliance matters. The role involves researching requirements, obtaining approvals, and managing legal documentation and processes.
Responsibilities
- Manage small claims court files and attend court as needed
- Draft claims, defenses and motions
- Conduct legal research as required
- Commission and notarize documents as needed
- Liaise with extra provincial attorneys for service
- Keep other departments abreast of requirements by researching regulatory and filing information, writing and communicating guidelines
- Process and obtain approvals for revising forms, agreements, policies and standards
- Prepares reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information
- Maintains rapport with external regulatory personnel by arranging continuing contacts and resolving concerns
- Maintain quality service by establishing and enforcing organizational standards
- Assists Chief Compliance Officer with litigation matters, reviewing of agreements and presentation decks etc
- Manage filing all annual returns and business licenses for all business entities
- Research regulations by reviewing regulatory bulletins and other sources of information
- Support the administration specific to the trademark/IP patents portfolio, respond (route) queries from IP office/lawyers, reviewing/obtaining approval for legal maintenance invoices
- Follow up re IP patent work with internal management
- Monitor our active/inactive inventory of trademarks/IP patents
- Participate in cross functional project teams to identify, develop and implement new initiatives
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks and benchmarking state-of-the-art practices
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
- Handle legal administration as well as prepare legal letters as required
- Other duties as assigned
Skills
- Bilingual French and English, as an asset
- Excellent knowledge using Microsoft Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Compliance mindset
- Multitasker and attention to detail
- Informing others and building relationships
- Research and report generation, and reporting research results
- Audit capabilities
- Paralegal or legal related education or equivalent
- Experience working in legal and in automotive finance or similar experience is preferred
- Legal related work experience in a corporate environment as an asset
Company Overview
- SCI Lease Corp is a financial service company. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in Markham, Ontario, CAN, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://www.scileasecorp.com.