Careers

Fulton & Company LLP is a great place to build a career whether you're just starting out or an experienced professional. Our lawyers and staff enjoy interesting, challenging work. We value and respect the knowledge, experience and team spirit of our lawyers and staff and do everything we can to ensure they have an interesting and supportive place in which to work. Known as an employer of choice among Kamloops firms, we can confidently say that this is a great place to work. We have several in-house programs dedicated to providing a supportive career experience for our staff. These include:

• competitive salaries
• profit share bonus
• group RRSP plan
• medical and extended health benefits
• paid or banked overtime
• short term, extended sick plan
• a full day, one-on-one orientation on your first day of employment
• regular noon hour health and wellness information sessions (including free lunch!)
• regular staff appreciation socials and the year-end party

Current Positions:

Litigation Paralegal - graduate of paralegal program preferred but consideration will be given to a candidate with extensive paralegal experience. The job description is as follows:

General

• Client contact, including telephone discussions and meetings.
• Obtain, review/analyze, summarize, organize and index documents produced.
• Document filings, record-keeping and preparing chronologies.
• Maintain current knowledge of rules of civil procedure and local Rules of Court.
• Maintain current knowledge of court forms and procedures for filing.
• Maintain current knowledge of computerized information retrieval systems and research systems.
• Maintain current knowledge of interview and investigation techniques.
• Perform legal, non-legal and medical research.
• Check sites and note-up case law.
• Draft legal memoranda and/or briefs.
• Take instructions from lawyer responsible for files.

Commencement of Action

• Draft, file and serve Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim for both tort and Part VII actions.
• Draft, file and serve answer or other responsive pleadings.
• Conduct or supervise fact investigation (i.e. interview witnesses, review and consider evidence including circumstantial, financial and medical).
• Draft correspondence.
• Maintain calendar.

Discovery

• Draft demands for discovery of documents.
• Draft lists of documents.
• Prepare and deliver appointments to examine for discovery.
• Arrange for court reporters and/or videotape technicians.
• Review and assemble documents to be used at examinations.
• Prepare witnesses and clients for examinations.
• Digest examination transcripts.
• Respond to interrogatories, document production.
• Draft applications for chambers hearings, including Notice of Motion and Affidavits.
• Arrange for and work with expert witnesses.
• Obtain, review and analyze medical records.
• Obtain, review and organize damages information; calculate damages and prepare, maintain and update damage summaries.
• File maintenance.

Trial

• Draft pre-trial statements.
• Prepare and serve trial subpoenas.
• Organize and mark trial exhibits.
• Prepare or supervise preparation of graphs and demonstrative exhibits for use at trial.
• Prepare trial books.
• Prepare and coordinate lay and expert witnesses.

Post-Trial

• Draft memorandum of costs or motion to tax costs.
• Draft notice of appeal.
• Prepare certificates of judgment.

Settlement

• Prepare settlement calculations and proposals.
• Draft settlement documents, including releases and dismissals.
• Draft mediation briefs.

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