Jobs at McCarthy Building Companies

Designs, delivers, and continuously improves professional education programs for lawyers across career stages. Leads instructional design, curriculum planning, retreats, faculty development, needs assessments, evaluation frameworks, and AI-enabled learning initiatives. Collaborates with firm leaders, subject matter experts, vendors, and external partners while overseeing program execution and coaching a coordinator. Requires expertise in adult learning, instructional technology, legal professional development, and blended learning formats.

Provides bilingual English-French administrative and document support to lawyers and practice groups. Responsibilities include triaging requests, managing workflows, processing expenses and invoices, maintaining client files, drafting and proofreading legal documents, preparing basic court documents, coordinating travel, updating databases, and supporting records management. Requires strong organization, communication, proofreading, multitasking, and Microsoft Office skills in a hybrid Montreal law-firm environment.

Prepares prebills and invoices, manages e-billing submissions, monitors work in progress and collections, produces billing reports, applies client-specific arrangements, and coordinates with lawyers, finance, clients, and e-billing teams. The role requires bilingual French and English communication, strong organization, attention to detail, confidentiality, and flexibility during peak billing periods.

Provides bilingual English-French administrative and document support to lawyers and professional teams. Responsibilities include triaging requests, managing workflows, processing expenses and invoices, maintaining client files, drafting and proofreading legal documents, preparing basic court documents, updating databases, coordinating travel, and supporting records management. Requires strong organization, proofreading, communication, multitasking, and customer service skills in a hybrid law-firm environment.

Provides firm-wide legal document production support in English and French. Responsibilities include creating, formatting, proofreading, editing, comparing, indexing, and quality-checking documents; managing support requests; using Microsoft applications; tracking issues; meeting deadlines; coordinating workloads; and assisting or mentoring team members. The role requires independent judgment, strong attention to detail, advanced word-processing skills, and flexibility for evening, overnight, weekend, and statutory holiday shifts.

Prepares and reviews prebills, invoices, reports, and e-billing submissions for legal clients. Monitors work in progress, billing milestones, alternate fee arrangements, receivables, and collections inquiries. Coordinates with lawyers, paralegals, finance, and e-billing teams, resolves rejected invoices, maintains billing records, and ensures compliance with client guidelines. Requires fluent written and spoken French and English, strong organization, attention to detail, and the ability to manage deadlines during peak billing periods.

Manage end-to-end eDiscovery projects, including legal holds, custodian interviews, data collection, budgets, timelines, documentation, quality control, and status reporting. Coordinate lawyers, clients, analysts, paralegals, contract lawyers, and review teams. Advise on eDiscovery technologies, prepare project plans and estimates, oversee workflows, resolve challenges, and ensure projects meet approved deadlines and budgets. Bilingual English and French communication is required.

Conducts conflict-of-interest searches, analyzes organizational structures and sanctions lists, supports client and matter intake, and maintains accurate client, billing, tax, and engagement records. The role also manages know-your-client and anti-money-laundering compliance, confidentiality controls, engagement letters, matter reassignment and closure, and urgent after-hours conflict checks. It provides training and support to lawyers and legal assistants and requires fluent French and English communication.

Prepares commodity tax returns and adjustments, manages tax audits, bank and general ledger reconciliations, journal entries, month-end close, and non-resident tax filings. Supports annual audits, finance teams, reporting, process improvements, automation opportunities, and finance-related projects. The role requires strong accounting knowledge, advanced Excel skills, detailed analysis, and fluent written and verbal communication in French and English.

Leads the analysis, implementation, integration, support, and continuous improvement of enterprise applications across cloud and on-premise environments. Partners with stakeholders, vendors, security, and QA teams; manages incidents, testing, documentation, compliance, and application lifecycle activities. Supports AI-enabled business capabilities, automation, governance, and enterprise platforms while mentoring analysts and contributing to projects involving Microsoft 365, Azure, Power Platform, and other technologies.

Performs conflict-of-interest searches, corporate family research, sanctions screening, client and matter openings, KYC and AML compliance, engagement letter administration, billing and tax setup, matter maintenance, and confidential information management. Provides bilingual training and support to lawyers and staff, prepares lateral-hire conflict reports, manages approvals, and participates in after-hours coverage rotations.

Manage cross-functional research, competitive intelligence, technology, AI, data, and operational projects from planning through evaluation. Develop project plans, reporting, performance indicators, and executive-ready insights; support technology and resource selection; facilitate stakeholder alignment, adoption, and change management. The role also drives process improvements and manages research tools and reporting initiatives in a legal or professional services environment.

Provides independent support for complex corporate and tax reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, closings, corporate records, and transaction documentation. The role involves drafting agreements and share provisions, coordinating searches and closing materials, advising clients and lawyers, maintaining corporate databases, monitoring legislative changes, and mentoring junior paralegals. Candidates need substantial corporate law experience, paralegal training or equivalent experience, bilingual French and English skills, and a NUANS Completion Certificate when required.