Job Category: Legal
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Metrolinx is connecting communities across the Greater Golden Horseshoe. Metrolinx operates GO Transit and UP Express, as well as the PRESTO fare payment system. We are also building new and improved rapid transit, including GO Expansion, Light Rail Transit routes, and major expansions to Toronto's subway system, to get people where they need to go, better, faster and easier. Metrolinx is an agency of the Government of Ontario.
At Metrolinx, equity, diversity and inclusion are essential to living our values of serving with passion, thinking forward and playing as a team.
Our award-winning Legal Services team is currently seeking a talented Litigation lawyer to join our busy and collegial legal team, located in downtown Toronto. Reporting to a Director, Legal Services, the successful candidate will be required to provide proactive, timely and strategic advice to senior business leaders and their teams, or business units, gaining exposure to a wide variety of work on a broad range of litigation or pre-litigation matters, including third party claims, complex infrastructure construction projects, disputes, and day-to-day operations. Successful candidates will also work through collaboration and partnership with other transit agencies, multiple regional and municipal governments in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, the federal government, and the private sector.
Ideal candidates will have 5 - 8 years of Litigation experience, gained from a major firm, corporation, or government agency. Experience working on general civil litigation and dispute resolution, third party property and casualty matters, insurance coverage and complex commercial files will be required. Experience in any of the following areas would be an asset: Insurance, Construction Law, Expropriation Law, Municipal and Real Property Law, Environmental Law, Land Use Planning, Contract and Claims Management.
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