57 Criminal Law jobs in Canada

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Criminal Law Clerk – (downtown Toronto) 100% Remote

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Our client is a bustling boutique Law firm located in downtown Toronto focusing on criminal, civil and family law litigation. They are seeking a dynamic and driven professional with a minimum of 2 years of experience in Criminal law to join their team.

Your new role

In this position, you will take on a variety of key responsibilities. These include preparing and submitting materials to the Court, Crown, and jail, as well as coordinating court appearances and meetings within the firm’s calendar. You will handle accounts compliance calls, ensuring that payments are secured from clients, and work closely with lawyers to support their day-to-day and weekly tasks. Additional duties include drafting legal documents like notices of application, judges’ orders, and designations, while also liaising with jail facilities to arrange in-person, video, and phone visits. As issues arise, you will manage written communication with the jail and maintain an organized filing system for client documents.

What you will need to succeed

To be considered for this role, you should have at least two years of experience in a similar position, preferably within criminal law. We’re looking for a team player who thrives in a dynamic environment, collaborating with a diverse group while also working independently. Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail are essential, along with the ability to handle multiple tasks in a high-volume, fast-paced setting. Strong interpersonal and communication skills are key for effectively working with clients, lawyers, and other professionals. Familiarity with the criminal court process in Ontario/Canada is also required.

What you will get in return

This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to advance their career. The role offers a generous compensation and benefits package and flexibility to work in remote capacity.

What you need to do now

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Senior Criminal Defense Lawyer (Remote)

Our client, a leading criminal defense firm with multiple offices across Ontario, is currently seeking a highly organized and experienced Senior Criminal Defense Lawyer with at least 6+ years of experience. The ideal candidate will have trial experience and manage cases from intake through to trial and will join their legal team in London, Ontario.

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Your new role

In this role, your responsibilities will include providing legal counsel and guidance to clients. You will appear in docket court, apply for adjournments, resolve matters, seek referral of clients to Alternative Measures, and argue sentence positions. You will also meet with clients to assist in trial preparation and draft legal opinions, court briefs, and Charter Notices.

Additionally, you will conduct bail hearings, peace bond hearings, firearm application hearings, CPTs, JPTs, pre-trial applications, trials, sentencing hearings, and appeals. You will be responsible for managing and mentoring a team of junior associates across various offices.

What you will need to succeed

To qualify for this role, candidates should have a minimum of 6+ years of experience, with trial experience being essential. Excellent communication skills are a must. A commitment to delivering exceptional, cost-effective, and responsive legal services to clients is also crucial. Membership in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario is required. Candidates should demonstrate strong analytical, research, and writing abilities, along with a dedication to personal growth, curiosity, collaboration, and diplomacy.

What you will get in return

This is a thrilling moment to join the firm, given its expansion with multiple offices opening, promising a robust career advancement path. You'll benefit from an attractive compensation package and an opportunity in a collaborative environment where your expertise will help shape innovative solutions and deliver exceptional results. Elevate your career making a meaningful impact.

What you need to do now

If you are interested in this role, click 'apply now', or call us now at for a confidential discussion.

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Associate Criminal Defense Lawyer (Remote)

Our client, a leading criminal defense firm with multiple offices across Ontario, is seeking a highly organized and motivated Associate Criminal Defense Lawyer with at least 2+ years of experience. The ideal candidate will have trial experience and be capable of managing cases from intake through to trial. This position is available at their Barrie or Windsor, Ontario offices.

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Your new role

In this role, your responsibilities will include providing legal counsel and guidance to clients. You will review disclosure, attend daily courts for remands, and schedule pre-trials and judicial pre-trials. Additionally, you will conduct legal research and analysis on various legal issues, draft legal documents such as pleadings, motions, briefs, and contracts, and maintain accurate and up-to-date case files.

What you will need to succeed

To qualify for this role, candidates must hold a license to practice law in Ontario and be in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario. Candidates should have two to five years of experience in criminal law, with experience in impaired driving cases being an asset. Strong advocacy and courtroom skills are essential, along with a thorough understanding and expertise in criminal defense matters, including charges, trials, and pleas. Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities are also required.

What you will get in return

This is a thrilling moment to join the firm, given its expansion with multiple offices opening, promising a robust career advancement path. You'll benefit from an attractive compensation package and an opportunity in a collaborative environment where your expertise will help shape innovative solutions and deliver exceptional results. Elevate your career making a meaningful impact.

What you need to do now

If you are interested in this role, click 'apply now', or call us now at for a confidential discussion.

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Associate Criminal Defense Lawyer (Remote)

Our client, a leading criminal defense firm with multiple offices across Ontario, is seeking a highly organized and motivated Associate Criminal Defense Lawyer with at least 2+ years of experience. The ideal candidate will have trial experience and be capable of managing cases from intake through to trial. This position is available at their Barrie or Windsor, Ontario offices.

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Your new role

In this role, your responsibilities will include providing legal counsel and guidance to clients. You will review disclosure, attend daily courts for remands, and schedule pre-trials and judicial pre-trials. Additionally, you will conduct legal research and analysis on various legal issues, draft legal documents such as pleadings, motions, briefs, and contracts, and maintain accurate and up-to-date case files.

What you will need to succeed

To qualify for this role, candidates must hold a license to practice law in Ontario and be in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario. Candidates should have two to five years of experience in criminal law, with experience in impaired driving cases being an asset. Strong advocacy and courtroom skills are essential, along with a thorough understanding and expertise in criminal defense matters, including charges, trials, and pleas. Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities are also required.

What you will get in return

This is a thrilling moment to join the firm, given its expansion with multiple offices opening, promising a robust career advancement path. You'll benefit from an attractive compensation package and an opportunity in a collaborative environment where your expertise will help shape innovative solutions and deliver exceptional results. Elevate your career making a meaningful impact.

What you need to do now

If you are interested in this role, click 'apply now', or call us now at for a confidential discussion.

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Associate Criminal Defense Lawyer (Ottawa)

Our client, a leading criminal defense firm with multiple offices across Canada, is seeking a highly organized and motivated Associate Criminal Defense Lawyer with at least 2+ years of experience. The ideal candidate will have trial experience and be capable of managing cases from intake through to trial. This position is available at their Ottawa offices.

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Your new role

In this role, your responsibilities will include providing legal counsel and guidance to clients. You will review disclosure, attend daily courts for remands, and schedule pre-trials and judicial pre-trials. Additionally, you will conduct legal research and analysis on various legal issues, draft legal documents such as pleadings, motions, briefs, and contracts, and maintain accurate and up-to-date case files.

What you will need to succeed

To qualify for this role, candidates must hold a license to practice law in Ontario and be in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario. Candidates should have two to five years of experience in criminal law, with experience in impaired driving cases being an asset. Strong advocacy and courtroom skills are essential, along with a thorough understanding and expertise in criminal defense matters, including charges, trials, and pleas. Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities are also required.

What you will get in return

This is a thrilling moment to join the firm, given its expansion with multiple offices opening, promising a robust career advancement path. You'll benefit from an attractive compensation package and an opportunity in a collaborative environment where your expertise will help shape innovative solutions and deliver exceptional results. Elevate your career making a meaningful impact.

What you need to do now

If you are interested in this role, click 'apply now', or call us now at for a confidential discussion.

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Associate Criminal Defense Lawyer (downtown Toronto)

Our client, a well-known Toronto criminal defense firm, is seeking a highly motivated Associate Criminal Defense Lawyer with at least 2+ years of experience to join their downtown Toronto team.

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Your new role

In this role as an Associate Lawyer, you will be responsible for conducting legal research, analyzing case facts, preparing legal documents, representing clients in court, and providing professional legal advice. You will collaborate with the legal team to build strong defence strategies and ensure the best possible outcome for clients.

What you will need to succeed

The ideal candidate will have a strong knowledge of criminal law, including DUI, assault, drug offenses, and traffic offenses, along with excellent research and analytical skills. They should be able to prepare persuasive legal arguments and written submissions and have experience representing clients in court and handling legal proceedings. A thorough understanding of the Canadian legal system and court procedures, effective communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines are essential. A J.D. or LL.B. degree from an accredited law school and membership with the Law Society of Ontario are required. Prior experience in criminal defense or a related field is an asset.

What you will get in return

This is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly expanding firm with ample career growth potential. The firm provides a highly competitive compensation and benefits package.

What you need to do now

If you are interested in this role, click 'apply now', or call us now at for a confidential discussion.

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Associate Criminal Defense Lawyer (downtown Toronto) 100% Remote

Our client is a bustling boutique Law firm located in downtown Toronto focusing on criminal, civil and family law litigation. They are seeking a dynamic and driven professional with a minimum of 3 years of experience in Criminal law to join their team.

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Your new role

In this role as an Associate Lawyer, you will be responsible for conducting legal research, analyzing case facts, preparing legal documents, representing clients in court, and providing professional legal advice. You will collaborate with the legal team to build strong defence strategies and ensure the best possible outcome for clients.

What you will need to succeed

The ideal candidate will have a strong knowledge of criminal law, including DUI, assault, drug offenses, and traffic offenses, along with excellent research and analytical skills. They should be able to prepare persuasive legal arguments and written submissions and have experience representing clients in court and handling legal proceedings. A thorough understanding of the Canadian legal system and court procedures, effective communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines are essential. A J.D. or LL.B. degree from an accredited law school and membership with the Law Society of Ontario are required. Prior experience in criminal defense or a related field is an asset.

What you will get in return

This is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly expanding firm with ample career growth potential. The firm provides a highly competitive compensation and benefits package.

What you need to do now

If you are interested in this role, click 'apply now', or call us now at for a confidential discussion.

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Primary Objective(s):

The Legal Research Analyst position is primarily responsible for analyzing legal information in Westlaw Canada and working with Product Management to determine how to better leverage that information for legal researchers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identifying relationships among legal information sets
• Conducting significant core legal research to identify critical legal authority on specific issues
• Making fine-grain, qualitative judgments of legal content
• Monitoring performance of new products and enhancements through testing and grading evaluations
• Collaborating with team members and internal stakeholders to better leverage key legal research information

Experience, Knowledge and Skills:

• French Language needed
• JLL.B or J.D. degree required
• Admission to bar preferred
• 1–3 years of legal experience preferred
• Strong legal research skills with experience using Westlaw and other legal research tools
• Ability to interpret, analyse, organize, and express complex legal material quickly and accurately
• Ability to effectively handle and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously in a quickly changing environment
• Ability to work independently, consistently meet deadlines, and achieve individual objectives within larger team projects
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Comfortable using Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)

The pay rate that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $25-$28hr CAD

Our optional benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions (the operator of this Talent Community) is a global leader of contingent talent services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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Salary:

Our Business

FISPAN Services Inc. (FISPAN) is an Enterprise SaaS FinTech company that allows banks to deploy embedded financial products and services to create a seamless banking connection for their clients.

Our customers are large financial institutions, and the FISPAN SaaS platform removes friction and adds value by enabling their commercial banking clients to access banking and treasury services through their preferred ERP / accounting platform.

Founded in 2016 and headquartered in downtown Vancouver, FISPAN is on a mission to create the best product in the FinTech industry and fundamentally change the way that companies bank. Being the market leader in ERP Banking, we work with the worlds Tier 1 banks with assets exceeding $3T, including J.P. Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, TD and Bank of Montreal.

We are looking for dynamic and passionate individuals to join our high performance team and contribute to our rapid growth and exciting journey.

Job Description Summary

Reporting to the Chief Legal & Risk Officer (CLRO), the Legal Counsel Technology will play an important role supporting the Legal, Human Resources (HR) and Security & GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance) functions on legal and compliance matters impacting FISPAN, and collaborating with various teams at FISPAN including Product and Engineering.

The Legal Counsel Technology will be the second in-house lawyer to join the FISPAN Legal Department, and will closely collaborate with and help manage the 6-member Security & GRC team, in addition to assisting the CLRO in advising FISPANs C-Suite and Board of Directors and managing external legal counsel.

The candidate must have a strong background in technology-related transactions, including direct experience in SaaS contract strategy and negotiation, and experience in in-house settings is mandatory with limited exceptions.

Candidates with experience in the following areas will also be viewed positively while not mandatory, such experience is a major plus:

• Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) governance, including in relation to privacy (e.g, GDPR; CCPA); at a minimum, the candidate must have familiarity with the foregoing in the contracts or compliance context.
  

• Experience with legal operations / technology, including helping establish and scale legal teams and processes (e.g., legal intake), procure legal ops tools (including AI-powered), and drive metrics and KPIs to assess and improve legal team performance and customer satisfaction.

• Financial industry experience, ideally working with financial institutions as customers or representing them in contracts matters, and/or experience with SaaS platforms for payments and banking.

We seek candidates with strong drafting and negotiation skills, a business-oriented approach, and an ability to assess risk. Our ideal candidate brings exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with ability to distill complex legal concepts into clear, actionable advice for non-legal stakeholders across teams and disciplines. A collaborative and team-oriented mindset, with the ability to build relationships across departments, is a must.

The position offers some flexibility to work remotely, a competitive compensation package, and the opportunity to lead impactful projects within a dynamic team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contract Drafting, Negotiation and Compliance: Draft, review, and negotiate SaaS and technology services agreements and SOWs, with financial institutions as the customers. Support the creation and maintenance of contract forms and playbooks to streamline contract review and negotiation processes. Assist in driving the Companys contractual compliance framework and initiatives.

• Data Governance; Privacy and Data Protection: Provide guidance and support on FISPAN data governance policies and processes, including in relation to bank partner contract compliance and related data policies (e.g., use of AI products and services). Assist with the companys information security and cybersecurity incident response framework and policies, and advise on privacy laws and data protection regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA) applicable to our business, and related regulatory and contractual compliance needs.

• Risk and Vendor Management: Support the enterprise risk management process, identifying legal and other risks and assisting with the development of mitigation strategies, as well as vendor management program and policies. Familiarity with ISO, SOC2 and/or NIST frameworks is a plus.

• Regulatory and Compliance Matters; Legal Research: Advise on regulatory and compliance issues related to payments, financial services, outsourcing, AI, and open banking, and the FinTech and SaaS industries more broadly. Conduct legal research on various topics, including emerging trends in contracts, IP and payments law. Provide timely and actionable legal advice to senior management and the business teams.

• Corporate Governance and Transactions: Support corporate governance matters, including board governance, shareholder relations, and corporate filings. Assist with securities-related matters including support for financing rounds, acquisitions, and other corporate transactions, management of FISPANs cap table and administration of FISPAN stock option plan. Support the Companys plans for expansion to Europe and Asia.

• Intellectual Property: Assist with IP matters, including trademark and patent prosecution, in collaboration in collaboration with external IP counsel and FISPANs product, engineering and marketing teams. Direct experience in IP prosecution is not mandatory, but an understanding of IP licensing concepts applicable to SaaS contracting is a must.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product, engineering, marketing and sales teams to ensure that legal issues are proactively addressed throughout the product lifecycle. Provide practical, business-oriented legal advice to support strategic initiatives and day-to-day operations.

• Employment / HR: Provide support to the CLRO and Head of HR on employment-related legal matters, including assisting in the development and maintenance of employment agreements, policies and procedures, and management of people issues.

• Litigation and Dispute Resolution: Assist with the management of any legal disputes or litigation involving the company, including working with external counsel as necessary.

Qualifications:

• Education: Law degree (LL.B.) from a recognized Canadian university. Candidates with US or UK law degrees, coupled with a license to practice in the US or Canada, will also be considered.

• Licensing: Active membership in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario or the Law Society of British Columbia. A U.S. state bar membership or license to practice in England and Wales is a plus.

• Experience: 4-8 years of experience including in-house roles, with a focus on technology law and demonstrated experience negotiating and managing complex SaaS contracts. Payments or financial services industry experience preferred.

Why Work With Us?

• Experienced Team: Our CEO is Lisa Shields, a renowned tech entrepreneur whose previous venture, Hyperwallet, was purchased by Paypal and ranks as one of the largest Canadian technology company acquisitions. Lisa is backed by a seasoned leadership team with vast experience scaling technology companies from start-up through growth phases to acquisition. Our CLRO is Santo Manna, who brings 30 years of experience in the Fintech and banking software industry, both as a General Counsel and in private practice representing banks and technology providers. In joining our team, you will benefit from that experience and associated mentorship opportunities, and further build your network and knowledge base.

• High Growth Environment: FISPAN is an emerging high growth company, and that implies autonomy and leadership over projects. Our employees hold a higher level of responsibility and are presented with various hands-on opportunities from the get-go. We want our team to reach their full potential and career aspirations, and FISPAN helps foster that.

• Rich Culture: The Companys culture is its greatest asset, and our team members form bonds that last a lifetime. We plan company-wide events, both virtual and in-person, and other activities to foster togetherness and help drive engagement. We also understand that personal growth happens on multiple levels, and so encourage a work-life balance with ample time to spend with family, explore new ideas and develop hobbies.

• Perks: Our prime downtown Vancouver office in the Guiness Building, with its magnificent views, is close to a Skytrain, prestige shopping, and other amenities. FISPAN employees have access to our building fitness centre and amenities, fully stocked cupboards, weekly team lunches, and daily coffee runs. We also set our employees up for success by providing the most modern MacBook and Apple equipment.

Compensation Package

We offer a competitive salary and bonus structure based on comparable market data for similar jobs and job levels from companies of similar employee size, revenue and location. A candidates specific base salary will range from CAD $45,000 to 185,000, to be determined based on multiple factors including applicable experience, knowledge, skillsets and qualifications.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

As FISPAN continues to grow, we are committed to celebrating diversity, endorsing equity, and encouraging inclusion, and eliminating bias in our recruitment process.