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This includes providing coordination of legal services required by the County, monitoring and coordinating the flow of legal information and workload through internal and external legal counsel, research, tracking and reporting of legal matters and monitoring of costs related to legal services.\nCore Accountabilities\nLegal Services\nOperate the County’s legal services request system, including providing instructions to external lawyers and coordinating legal matters between departments and lawyers in accordance with applicable policies and procedures.\nLiaise with County staff submitting legal services requests, including confirming the scope of the request, requesting required documents, and determining desired timeframes for review and action by lawyers.\nObtain, approve and manage cost estimates up to a limited amount.\nReview the provision of legal services on an ongoing basis, including discussing needs and concerns with departments, identifying opportunities for legal training, and assessing and addressing any service issues with external lawyers.\nMaintain a database for legal services requests, including for legal opinions, to avoid duplication of legal work and to assist departments with finding historical legal information.\nDraft legal correspondence and memorandums for lawyers’ review and sign off.\nCompletion of corporate registry and land titles searches.\nConduct case law searches and resource searches from legal research tools.\nLitigation\nMonitor and coordinate the response to the County’s potential and active litigation, in consultation with the Manager, including notifying and liaising with the County’s insurer, as required.\nCoordinate electronic exchange of documents.\nReceive and respond to inquiries from law firms and County departments with respect to general or procedural questions and status of documents or the litigation file generally.\nManage lawyers’ schedules, including coordinating meetings, preparing meeting materials and logistics, and monitoring the timing of upcoming deadlines to ensure time is well organized and key deadlines are met.\nGeneral\nMaintain a filing system for legal records.\nConduct research, compile information, analyze data and prepare policies, procedures, letters, and other documents as assigned.\nMonitor and prepare periodic reports for the Manager regarding legal expenditures.\nCreate, organize, maintain and close electronic files.\nProvide Commissioner for Oaths services for County staff.\nMonitor, track, collect fees and complete other related tasks for Access to Information Act (ATIA) requests, as required.\nOther\nLead by example, by providing superior customer service as well as following and promoting industry best practices and County values and objectives.\nWork in accordance with the requirements established by the RVC Health and Safety Program and the Alberta OHS Act, Regulation and Code.\nTake reasonable care to protect their health and safety and other persons at or in the vicinity of the worksite while they are working.\nPerform other administrative duties and special projects as assigned.\nPosition Requirements\nCompletion of a Legal Assistant Diploma along with a minimum of three (3) years of progressively responsible and diversified experience in legal support services. Equivalent combined education and experience may be considered.\nDemonstrate knowledge of a municipal government organization and maintain a working knowledge of departmental rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and functions.\nExcellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate with various levels of interested parties, both internal and external to the County.\nAble to prepare clear, concise and well-researched reports. 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Works effectively under the pressure of time limitations and constraints.\nDemonstrates superior customer service skills to both internal and external customers.\nAbility to deal with confidential matters in a discreet and professional manner.\nKnowledge of file management practices, along with the ability to build and maintain a legal filing system.\nExperience with legal practice management software.\nExperience with legal research resources.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5139,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-22T22:13:53Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":24,"reasons":["conf:3","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-28T05:59:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/rockyview-legal-assistant","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/rockyview-legal-assistant.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-28T21:14:09Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":29247,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-29T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1263181},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1263181"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Frockyview-legal-assistant"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Frockyview-legal-assistant"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Frockyview-legal-assistant"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/rockyview-legal-assistant\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Frockyview-legal-assistant"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3116326}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"rockyview.ca","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3116326},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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