We are an established full-service firm with three offices within Toronto, Barrie and Whitby, offering legal practice in more than 20 specialities and an array of sub-specialties handling cross-border transactions.
We enjoy all of the advantages and amenities of a downtown firm with a completely automated office and full technical and administrative support. Our locations are an advantage to our staff who seek to avoid the hassles of working downtown.
We pride ourselves on having a relaxed and informal atmosphere where people will enjoy their work. Most of us have been working here for a long, long time. To see pictures of some of our firm events, visit our Facebook Page
We are able to offer our employees all the challenge, opportunity, diversity and growth that they are looking for. We continue to grow so, there’s no better time to build your career at DSF. We are now among the largest employers in the Don Mills area of Toronto.
We offer an attractive remuneration package and an automated office with full technical, administrative and peer support. Enjoy all the advantages and amenities of a downtown firm, in a relaxed, informal atmosphere from a convenient and accessible location in North York.
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Devry Smith Frank LLP is an established 70+lawyer, full-service law-firm. We are currently looking for an intermediate accounting/controller to join our team.
Reporting to the Director of Finance and Managing Partner, the successful candidate will be responsible for the accounting team handling of accounting, financial reporting, cash-flow analysis, accounts receivable, accounts payable, general ledger, capital management and budget management. The candidate will also liaise with auditors, financial institutions, customers, vendors and regulatory agencies. He or she will support management planning and decision making by identifying, maintaining, and evaluating information and recommending actions.
The core responsibilities for this position are:
The successful candidate will not only have an eagerness to learn and take on new responsibilities but must also bring to the position:
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package coupled with a casual and fast-paced work environment.
Please forward your resume to the attention of Mimi Stellino @ mimi.stellino@devrylaw.ca or fax to 416-449-7071.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
The Operations Coordinator provides support and assists with the day-to-day maintenance and operation of DSF’s main building and additional offices located in Barrie, Innisfil, Haliburton and Whitby. In addition, the incumbent is responsible for coordinating and supervising leasehold improvements and renovation and construction, performing minor repairs and improvements to the premises to ensure a safe, functional and clean work environment.
In this position, you are required to respond to emergency/critical situations with an appropriate level of urgency and escalate to the appropriate staff as necessary on a timely basis.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES
REQUIREMENTS
We offer competitive salary, vacation and benefits.
We are seeking an experienced Real Estate Law Clerk with at least 4+ years’ relevant experience to work in our office in Barrie. Proficiency with Conveyancer, Teraview, title searches, and real estate transactions. Organized and detail oriented. We offer competitive salary and benefits.
We are currently looking for a wills and estates lawyer. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in estate planning and trust arrangements and a full or partial portable book of business. Experience with taxation issues is a plus, but is not required.
We are currently looking for a tax lawyer to complement our wills/estates and corporate teams.
The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in tax law, with a focus on estate planning, trust arrangements and corporate restructurings, and will have a partial or fully portable practice. Experience with cross-border taxation issues is a plus, but is not required.
We are currently looking to add an experienced planning and development lawyer to join our collegial team in North York.
The successful applicant will be involved in all aspects of municipal and planning law, including land use litigation, expropriation, environmental and constitutional matters including appearances before various courts and administrative tribunals, in particular the OMB. Applicants must have excellent advocacy, interpersonal and communication skills. The ideal candidate will have at least 7 years of related legal experience, preferably gained at a municipality or with a firm representing municipalities. A portable or growing practice is preferred, but is not essential.
We are currently looking for an experienced corporate lawyer to join our office in North York.
The successful candidate will have a growing practice and a business-oriented approach to law. By joining DSF, he or she will enjoy the benefits of established technical, administrative and peer resources critical to growing a practice. The ideal candidate will be entrepreneurial-minded and have 7 to 12 years of business/corporate law experience from a reputable firm or as a sole practitioner. Candidates with a knowledge of tax law as it applies to corporate transactions will be preferred.
As a mid-sized full service law firm, our articling students have the opportunity to be exposed to all areas of practice in the firm. Although we may utilize a rotation to give students access to a broad and comprehensive articling experience, DSF maintains an informal component to the articling program. By allowing an informal component to the program, students are able to gain greater access to areas and practices of particular interest.
Many of the lawyers at DSF have also articled here. Our firm invests a tremendous amount of resources into the articling program as we look to our students as a key component of the firm’s continued growth. We endeavour to give our articling students the independence and the ability to make decisions that impact the matters in which they are involved. Lawyers are decision makers and we want to ensure that the necessary skills are learned from the beginning.
Our articling students gain court experience, as well as meet and communicate with clients, lawyers and representatives from outside the firm on the matter in which they are involved. Some of our articling student’s responsibilities include: Weekly attendance at examinations and motions, carriage of small claims court files, and writing articles for our quarterly newsletter. They also assist on motions, pre-trials, mediations, arbitrations, trials (preparing materials, negotiating with opposing parties, and attending), and conduct research.
DSF offers a salary competitive with other mid-sized Toronto firms, and pays the tuition of the bar admission course regardless of hire-back. Salary is not paid during the bar admission course.
DSF is hiring up to four summer law students for 2021. We accept applications from second year law students. Please forward a complete application package to us by February 5, 2021. Consistent with our commitment to developing and retaining talent, we will look to our summer students to fill future articling positions.
DSF hires university and college students each summer to assist with administrative tasks. Please forward your application to us for consideration by the end of February.
DSF complies with the guidelines of the Law Society of Ontario in the recruitment of articling students. The guidelines can be found at www.lsuc.on.ca. Applications are due by July 6th and interviews will be conducted during the week of August 13th.
The deadline for submitting summer student applications is November 14th. We typically conduct interviews in December and January and try our best to accommodate out of town students.
Applications should include the following:
Reference letters are welcomed, but not required.
For all job postings and inquiries, please contact:
H.R. ManagerDevry Smith Frank LLP95 Barber Greene RoadSuite 100Toronto, ON, M3C 3E9Phone: 416-446-5814E-mail: mimi.stellino@devrylaw.ca
You are welcome to submit your applications either through regular mail or e-mail