Content Developer at Dye & Durham Corporation

Job Description

• Development and maintenance of automated legal precedents used by law firms throughout Canada, the UK and South Africa.
• These precedents include both statutory court forms, as well as general legal documents and correspondence documents customised on behalf of our clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Document Construction, Formatting and Styling, using MS Word as well as proprietary MS Word-like user interfaces.
• Researching and understanding the environment in which a document operates.
• Analysing the degree to which the document should be automated.
• Marking-up and automating the document using in-house programing tools involving document logic ("if then/else"), fillpoints/stop-codes and dialogs.
• Testing, trouble shooting, and maintaining the documents developed.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Must love Documents!
• Analytical, structured, organized, methodical and logical.
• Must have an eye for attention to detail.
• Must have advanced word processing skills in general and be proficient in the use of Microsoft Word in particular.
• Quick learner.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage time well.
• Works well under pressure.
• Ability to work accurately at a fast pace and multi-task.
• Good working knowledge of Windows Operating System, MS Office, Internet.

Nice to have (but not a prerequisite):

• Experience with document automation.
• Legal / Law office domain knowledge.
• Skills in MS Office automation (eg. MS Excel).
• IT/IS background.