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TELUS Legal Services is responsible for providing support to the TELUS group of companies. Our mission is to deliver world-class, innovative, and timely legal solutions with business acumen, aligned with TELUS’ strategic imperatives.

Legal Services at TELUS stands for delivering outstanding service, being innovative, and providing timely legal solutions with a high level of strategic and thoughtful business acumen that aligns with TELUS’ strategic imperatives. TELUS’ legal team partners with the business to create a future friendly legal experience and displays curiosity, industry and sector knowledge, and questions the status quo for continuous improvement of business practices and processes.

What We’ll accomplish together

As a business oriented commercial lawyer, you will support TELUS Business Solutions activities across Canada. As a successful candidate, you will be engaged in a variety of transactions and legal matters, including deal negotiations and agreement drafting. You will also provide advice on telecommunications, information technology (IT), procurement and privacy matters.

What You’ll do

• Strengthening relationships with key stakeholders and sophisticated clients by cultivating a deep understanding of their business and providing proactive, solution-oriented advice
• Striving continuously to advance legal and business practices by driving new approaches and process improvements while balancing a high volume of client matters in a timely and effective manner

What You bring

• Respected for your legal skills, business acumen, initiative, creativity, learning-oriented mindset and collaborative style
• Experience advising clients in structuring, drafting and negotiating commercial agreements
• Familiarity with third wave technologies, including cloud computing, and related privacy issues
• Valued for strong analytical skills that help you resolve client and legal concerns practically and efficiently
• Confident at engaging and interacting with sophisticated stakeholders, internally and externally
• Noted for your ability to effectively communicate legal advice (including written) to a diverse range of stakeholders
• You thrive in a fast paced, results oriented environment
• Recognized for your record of successfully managing multiple, concurrent files and priorities and delivering on commitments
• Called 4 or more years ago to the Bar
• Member in good standing with the Law Society of British Columbia, Alberta or Ontario or the Québec Bar