Paralegal / Law Clerk

Are you ready to secure your next big opportunity in 2025? Join our fast-growing cybersecurity company and become a crucial part of a team dedicated to protecting businesses while fostering innovation. Field Effect is looking for a Paralegal/Law Clerk to provide legal assistance in a variety of areas, including Patents and Trademarks, Corporate, and ready to grow and tackle contracts management.

As our Paralegal/Law Clerk, you will play a pivotal role in keeping our legal operations airtight, supporting innovation, and protecting our intellectual property. Your key responsibilities will include:

Intellectual Property (IP) Management:

1. Ensure our IP portfolio is in line with the company’s overall IP strategy
2. Oversee the filing, tracking, and renewal of patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
3. Work with our external counsel to guide patents and trademarks through the various stages to registration
4. Coordinate with external legal counsel and relevant internal stakeholders.

Corporate:

1. Oversee corporate recordkeeping for our entities in Canada, US, UK and Australia
2. Prepare annual resolutions and others as required
3. Minute book administration, including updating registers and ledgers, as required
4. Manage annual filings

Document Control & Organization:

1. Maintain and organize legal documentation, including IP portfolios and related correspondence.
2. Establish and manage the implementation of contracts record management systems

Legal Research & Compliance Monitoring:

1. Stay updated on IP law trends and assist in advising on risk management strategies.
2. Research IP-related queries to ensure alignment with corporate goals.
3. Research corporate regulatory requirements in the jurisdictions where we have offices
4. Ensure organizational adherence to relevant laws, regulations, and company policies.
5. Assist with audits and compliance reporting.

Administrative Support:

1. Contract proofreading and assist in reviewing contracts in line with the company’s risk profile.
2. Maintain the legal files and ensure contracts, both sales and supplier are filed and accessible.
3. Organizing, labeling and filing of electronic files in accordance with established saving and naming protocols.
4. Manage invoices and expenses related to external counsel and legal operations.
5. Track and monitor legal budgets, ensuring cost-effectiveness.

Experience & skills we look for:

1. Relevant post-secondary education in Law Clerk studies, Paralegal Studies, or a similar field
2. 4 to 7 years of experience as law clerk or similar role in a corporate in-house, law firm, or similar environment
3. Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
4. Knowledge of patent, trademark, and copyright processes
5. Knowledge of Canadian corporate recordkeeping requirements
6. Previous exposure and some experience in contracting processes is a plus
7. Strong ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
8. Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills
9. Strong communication and interpersonal skills
10. Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information with discretion
11. Please note that this is a hybrid role and requires the person to be on site 2 times per week

What You’ll Get By Joining Our Team

• Your brilliance will get a runway
• You will be surrounded by industry leading cyber security experts
• You will help shape the future of cybersecurity
• A workplace of opportunity
• Competitive compensation & Extensive Benefits such as generous paid vacation

If this sounds exciting, we would love to hear from you! Please note that only the candidate(s) selected for the next phase of the hiring process will be contacted directly.

Field Effect is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are given consideration regardless of race, religion, colour, gender, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class as provided in applicable employment laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us.
About Us:

People rarely can say that they work at a job they truly love—unless, of course, they work at Field Effect. We believe in investing in the personal and professional success of our employees. We want our teammates to feel great about the work that they do and about themselves when they are with us. That is our culture.

We have an all-star team with industry leading cyber security knowledge and analytical thinking that is engaged, motivated, genuinely curious, and has the willingness to be as diligent as possible. Field Effect is a rapidly growing company with an increasingly distributed global workforce that provides world-class managed cyber security solutions for businesses of all sizes. The company was founded by the brightest talents in cyber security, with a mission to remove the complexity of securing endpoints and networks by delivering monitoring and threat protection services that are easy to use and provide actionable insights.

Field Effect has earned their outstanding reputation through innovation, ingenuity and drive to change the cyber security industry. As a result of the exceptional workplace and culture they have built, Field Effect has been recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Small and Medium Employers in 2023. In addition, they have been consistently named one of the top employers in Ottawa, by Invest Ottawa. This team is committed to helping businesses simplify and improve their cyber security by empowering their employees to collaborate, grow and thrive in their fields.