POP QUIZ:

• Are you passionate about mentoring teams and driving excellence in legal operations?
• Do you have deep experience in contract review and navigating public and private sector procurement processes with confidence?
• Are you energized by deadline-driven work where attention to detail is key?
• Do you hold a bachelor’s degree in law, business, or engineering—or bring equivalent experience that’s sharpened your edge in consulting or legal services?
  If you scored four for four, JLR has a home for you! You’ll be supported by a Platinum Club member of Canada’s Best Managed Companies program, 100% employee-owned firm that has a long-established reputation for quality services in multiple sectors, while you take on existing clients, develop new relationships, and deliver world-class, innovative solutions that support community building and growth in our cities.
  JLR is a creative, tight-knit, and mentorship-focused community with unique opportunities for driven people with tenacity and spirit. Our organization is made up of diverse employee owners with specialized expertise in a wide range of disciplines. Joining the JLR team means joining a dynamic group of innovative architecture, engineering, and planning professionals and support staff. You’ll have the opportunity to help establish new clients and partner with existing ones to develop insightful solutions and see projects through from inception to completion.
  If you’re innovative and collaborative, thrive when presented with new challenges, and are eager to take your career in new directions, then JLR is the right environment for you.

Choose your own adventure! Let’s talk about how your skills, experience, goals, and passions can find a home at JLR. As the Manager of Legal Services, your role will include:

• Leading and mentoring a team of paralegals
• Overseeing the review, identification, analysis and mitigation of commercial risks and liabilities in bid documents, client agreements, active projects and supplier agreements
• Overseeing the drafting of a range of contract documents with clients, suppliers and subconsultants
• Communicating, both verbally and written, negotiated commercial terms with clients, suppliers and subconsultants
• Assisting project teams with interpreting contract and statutory language
• Managing contract changes and assisting with the resolution of claims
• Collaborating with project managers, engineers, architects, planners and technical teams to ensure alignment of risk strategies in pursuit of project opportunities
• Understanding standard form construction agreements, professional service agreements and the ability to recognize risk and negotiate liability caps, indemnity clauses, standard of care obligations, intellectual property rights, insurance requirements and other commercial terms and conditions
• Embrace AI-powered contract review tools or show the flexibility to learn and adapt quickly.