Why Bennett Jones
It goes without saying that lawyers are self-motivated achievers and independent thinkers. At Bennett Jones, our lawyers and business advisors are individuals deeply connected to their practice areas and the industries they serve. We know business, we know the industries we support and we know the law.
For individuals seeking to further their careers at Bennett Jones, we seek enthusiastic and supportive colleagues who will help to further our reputation as one of the very best providers of legal services in all areas in which we practice. We are looking for those who will strive with us to reach the highest peaks of individual and professional achievement.
In order to further our business, we intend to earn the respect of clients who will proactively advocate for our firm, our lawyers and our advisors. To accomplish this, we seek individuals who embrace rising to the occasion and taking on the challenges of developing new ways to impress our clients through extraordinary service excellence.
We strive to foster a workplace environment that rewards success and emphasizes initiative and inventiveness over convention and fresh thinking over formality. We are committed to recruiting, developing and challenging the most creative and talented people in their fields and unleashing them in a spirited atmosphere of entrepreneurial energy.
We provide individuals in the firm with an opportunity to perform stimulating, interesting and rewarding work in a collegial team environment and we promote an atmosphere of excellence through strong personal commitment and the encouragement of a balanced life.
Our Commitment to Our People
Available Positions
Roles Within the Firm
Legal Assistants
Bennett Jones employees work in a challenging, fast-paced environment, supported by a culture based on trust and respect. We take pride in our ability to attract and retain individuals who excel in their respective fields by providing stimulating work and learning and development opportunities, as well as a competitive compensation and benefits package.
Our legal assistants provide skilled clerical and administrative support to our legal professionals to enhance the practice of law and service to our clients. Clerical, administrative and general office duties are provided within a team environment, with varied duties and level of responsibility based on the practice area and lawyer(s).
Legal Assistants
Bennett Jones employees work in a challenging, fast-paced environment, supported by a culture based on trust and respect. We take pride in our ability to attract and retain individuals who excel in their respective fields by providing stimulating work and learning and development opportunities, as well as a competitive compensation and benefits package.
Our legal assistants provide skilled clerical and administrative support to our legal professionals to enhance the practice of law and service to our clients. Clerical, administrative and general office duties are provided within a team environment, with varied duties and level of responsibility based on the practice area and lawyer(s).
Our positions are best suited to individuals who take pride and ownership in their work and demonstrate the importance of exceptional client service in everything they do. We offer a wide range of professional opportunities and work arrangements.
About our Practicum Program
A committee of volunteers from our support staff – including past legal assistant students – plans, organizes and implements each year’s practicum program. Each student is matched with a mentor and participates in a full week of orientation which includes: a “meet and greet” event, lunch on the first day, systems training, a firm tour, and presentations by representatives of various service departments and practice areas.
After orientation week, students are rotated through different practice areas in the firm, including: Document Processing, Corporate/Energy, Litigation, and other rotations selected by the student based on interest and availability in areas such as Corporate Services, Real Estate, Regulatory and Environmental.
Our legal assistant practicum program runs for six weeks, with students typically offered employment on the Resource Team following their practicums. Many practicum students move on to become long-term, valued Bennett Jones employees.
Legal Professionals
Success Formula
The lawyers in the trenches market the firm, shape its reputation and determine its success. The best people have a high level of talent, teamwork and work ethic and are exemplary in at least one of these areas. The best people will result in the best law firm, which will attract and retain the best people, who will attract and retain the best work, which will provide the best training, which will result in having the best people. It’s a cycle Bennett Jones has worked hard to establish, and it’s a cycle we are working even harder to maintain. We strive to attract the best people and, more importantly, to maintain the enthusiasm of such people throughout their tenure with the firm.
Legal Professionals
Associates and Partners
It is our goal to provide associates with the professional development and continuous evaluation required for them to achieve full potential.
Associates receive competitive salaries which are reviewed annually to ensure they are at the top of the relevant market. Bennett Jones offers a comprehensive benefits package including provincial and extended health care, dental and vision care, long and short term disability, employee assistance program and life, accidental death and dismemberment insurance.
Throughout your employment with Bennett Jones, we carefully assess associates’ professional development and longer term career prospects. Our more senior associates are eligible to participate in a profit sharing bonus program.
We also pursue an active lateral-hires policy at the senior associate and partner level. Our primary criteria for assessing lateral partners or senior associates is their fit on a culture level. While we obviously want people who will significantly strengthen our firm, we demand that they be genuinely enthusiastic about the direction of the firm and its operating culture.
Bennett Jones Alumni
We provide excellent training, skill enhancement, contacts and opportunities. While we have historically recruited personnel with the assumption and hope that they would join the firm and remain with it for their entire careers, we recognize that the definition of success in the legal profession is changing and we are changing with it.
We treat our departing lawyers as Bennett Jones alumni and we are committed to assisting them in their new careers as much as possible. We respect and support whatever future career choices are made by our lawyers and proactively assist those who wish to seek other opportunities in industry, the judiciary or government.
Paralegals and Law Clerks
Bennett Jones employees work in a challenging, fast-paced environment, supported by a culture based on trust and respect. We take pride in our ability to attract and retain individuals who excel in their respective fields by providing stimulating work and learning and development opportunities, as well as a competitive compensation and benefits package.
Our paralegals and law clerks perform skilled, specialized, substantive legal work as delegated by our lawyers, and for which they are responsible. Duties and level of responsibility vary based on the practice area and lawyer, and may include drafting of documentation, file management, assisting in trial preparation, and client contact.
Our positions are best suited to individuals who take pride and ownership in their work and demonstrate the importance of exceptional client service in everything they do. We offer a wide range of professional opportunities and work arrangements.
Paralegals and Law Clerks
Business Services
Bennett Jones employees work in a challenging, fast-paced environment, supported by a culture based on trust and respect. We take pride in our ability to attract and retain individuals who excel in their respective fields by providing stimulating work and learning and development opportunities, as well as a competitive compensation and benefits package.
Our positions are best suited to individuals who take pride and ownership in their work and demonstrate the importance of exceptional client service in everything they do. We offer a wide range of professional opportunities and work arrangements. Our support team comprises a number of professional service departments, and is critical to delivering seamless client services.
Business Services
Accounting
Combines financial and business acumen to generate financial reports and maintains accounting records to ensure compliance with internal and external standards and regulation.
Corporate Services
Involved in all aspects of preparing and filing corporate documentation for clients from incorporation to dissolution and many other corporate transactions.
Document Processing
Creates professional documents under demanding deadlines for both internal and external clients. Ensures adherence to standards that reinforce our firm’s image.
Human Resources
Develops and delivers people-oriented human resource programs and services aimed at building and developing each employee's relationship with our firm. Fosters a work environment that enables individuals to use, demonstrate and expand their core abilities.
Information Resources
Provide optimum access to print and electronic information resources necessary for our firm to best serve its clients.
Information Technology
Acquires, implements, and supports technologies and applications that enhance the practice of law and service to our clients.
Knowledge Management
Creates and enhances knowledge resources and promotes behaviours and processes that will enable our professionals to perform their client service roles effectively and efficiently.
Marketing
Leverage business skills and creative talents to implement client relationships, business development and communication programs and strategies.
Office Services
Manages and maintains our office environment to ensure a positive and productive work environment and provide the highest levels of client care.
Recruitment Fraud Notice
We are aware of online recruitment scams that use Bennett Jones’ name to obtain money and personal information from individuals seeking employment with the Firm. Currently, this scam is being perpetrated in Latin America, India, Russia and Africa.
The scam apparently lures individuals through on-line job listings and/or emails to apply for positions with Bennett Jones. Applicants are invited to contact a representative from Bennett Jones. Fees or personal information are requested from the applicant to proceed. This is a fraud—Bennett Jones does not have a representative in any country outside of Canada.
If you receive an unsolicited or suspicious email regarding employment at Bennett Jones do not respond to it.
Facts to know about employment at Bennett Jones:
- The definitive list of our offices in Canada and globally is available on our Offices webpage at https://www.bennettjones.com/Offices
- We do not charge a monetary fee of any amount to apply for a position at the firm
- Legitimate emails sent from our Firm use the domain name “@bennettjones.com”
- Legitimate information on open positions and how to apply is only available on our website's Career page at www.bennettjones.com/AvailableCareers
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