Associate Lawyer – Employment Law (2025–2026 Call)
Downtown Toronto - 220 Bay Street
Make an Impact. Build Your Career. Grow With Us.
Are you passionate about helping others and making a real impact? Monkhouse Law offers a unique opportunity to grow your legal career while advocating for workplace fairness and justice. We are a Canadian law firm recognized for driving change in employment law and helping both employees and businesses navigate today’s evolving employment landscape.
Monkhouse Law is a social justice–focused employment law boutique. We primarily represent employees who have been wrongfully dismissed and also serve small and medium-sized businesses with their HR and employment needs. Our team has played a key role in landmark cases that have shaped employment law in Ontario, including precedents related to bonuses, notice periods, and access to justice.
We’ve been recognized as one of Canada’s fastest-growing law firms by The Globe and Mail and The Financial Times.
Learn more about us at: www.monkhouselaw.com
Why Join Monkhouse Law?
- Meaningful Work: Help real people solve real problems. Make a tangible difference in their lives.
- Career Growth: Start by working alongside senior counsel and quickly transition to managing your own files and clients.
- Top-Tier Experience: Work on high-impact cases that shape the future of employment law in Ontario.
- Recognized Excellence: Join a firm ranked among North America's fastest-growing legal practices.
- Supportive Environment: Collaborative culture with mentorship, training, and a focus on your development.
About the Role:
We are hiring 3-5 Associate Lawyers (2025–2026 call) who are eager to develop deep expertise in employment law. This is a permanent position with a minimum 1-year commitment.
This role is ideal for early-career lawyers who are ready to move quickly from supporting senior counsel to managing their own client files in a fast-paced, rewarding environment.
Compensation: Full Compensation package commensurate with experience and competitive with comparable downtown employment and labour boutique firms. Year one $85-105k plus benefits.
Type of Position:
The position is an associate lawyer who will initially assist more senior lawyers with files to eventually transition to a file-carrying lawyer responsible for their own clients/files.
Therefore a successful candidate will possess both strong research and drafting skills as well as high interpersonal skills necessary for direct client-facing work within a short timeframe.
This is a hybrid position - 4 days per week in office to start, decreasing down to 2 days with more seniority.
Responsibilities Include:
- Drafting of Factums, Motion Records, book chapters, online articles, promotional materials, various one-off tasks relating to employment files;
- The ability to work quickly to deadlines on novel assignments;
- The ability to multitask and take on numerous tasks at once with high quality results and have a high level of production;
- Working independently and following instructions from senior counsel;
- Regular interaction with potential and current clients;
- Effective management of deadlines and priorities;
- Direct supervision and delegation of support staff;
- Superior communications, drafting skills and strong attention to detail;
- The ideal candidate would transition to being a file-carrying litigation lawyer, which would include management of files from beginning to end at various stages of negotiation and litigation;
Preferred Candidates Skills/Requirements:
- High emotional intelligence and strong interpersonal skills for client-facing work.
- Ability to manage a high-volume workload in a deadline-driven environment.
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and able to work independently.
- Excellent reliability and professionalism
- Team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a positive attitude;
- Tech-savvy and proficient with Microsoft Office, PC, and Mac systems.
- Member in good standing with the Law Society of Upper Canada.
Assets (Preferred, Not Required):
- Previous experience in employment and labour law.
- Courtroom or tribunal experience (“on-your-feet” experience).
Training
This role will require intensive training between September and October, successful candidates must be available during this time and no other pre-planned trips etc.
Application: Please submit your application to indeed and follow up with an email including Law school transcripts, two writing samples, resume and cover letter to [email protected] with subject line relevant to the position.
Subject line: “Litigation Associate: Employment”.
Qualified Applicants will be asked to complete a 2-Part Predictive Index Assessment as part of the application process.
Job Type: Full-time
Work Location: Hybrid remote, Downtown Toronto, ON
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $85,000.00-$105,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental care
- Extended health care
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Toronto, ON M5J 2W4
