Wills & Estates Content Lead

LEAP Legal Software

$100K — $140K *
Legal & Accounting
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • LL.B. or J.D. degree with membership in good standing with a Canadian Law Society
  • 3+ years of practical experience in Wills, Lifetime Planning, and Estate Administration
  • Strong legal research, drafting, and analytical skills
  • Passion for legal tech and innovation; familiarity with practice management or document automation software is a plus
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills across teams
  • Strong organizational and project management abilities
  • Proactive mindset with a love for efficiency and innovation

Responsibilities

  • Leverage legal expertise to design smarter legal tools
  • Conduct legal research to enhance Wills & Estates content and automation
  • Engage with clients for feedback and collaborate with product teams to implement insights
  • Oversee and improve Wills & Estates matter types for better user experience
  • Curate and expand automated forms library for faster document creation
  • Develop AI-driven templates for drafting legal documents
  • Support strategic initiatives through research, analysis, and project management

Benefits

  • Competitive salary with a bonus structure
  • Comprehensive group insurance benefits
  • Employer-matched RRSP
  • Generous Paid Time Off, including 4 weeks' vacation and personal days
  • Hybrid work model with flexibility between home and office
  • Collaborative and inclusive work environment with growth opportunities
Full Job Description
Are you a Wills & Estates lawyer who loves technology and wants to shape the future of legal practice? Join LEAP Legal Software, where we're transforming how law firms work through automation, AI, and beautifully designed legal tools.

As our Wills & Estates Content Lead, you'll use your legal expertise to help design and improve LEAP's cutting-edge software for estate practitioners across Canada. You'll work closely with a team of developers, product specialists, and legal professionals to ensure our platform truly meets the needs of lawyers in real-world practice - from estate planning to estate administration.

This is a unique opportunity to combine your legal experience with innovation in AI, automation, and legal content development - all within a collaborative, growth-oriented, and dynamic work environment.

We are seeking an Wills & Estates Content Lead for a highly motivated, high-velocity, and growing team in our offices in Toronto and Poland, who will investigate how to tailor our software to meet the needs of legal professionals working in Wills & Lifetime Planning and Estate administration. The Wills & Estates Content Lead will be a legal expert who is excited about working in a technology company and keen to work in a dynamic, innovative environment outside of a traditional legal career to help shape the future of legal practice. This role will report to the Director of Canadian Content Development.

Key Responsibilities
  • Shape the future of legal tech: Leverage your legal expertise to design tools that help firms work smarter and more efficiently.
  • Lead content innovation: Conduct legal research across multiple provinces to identify opportunities to enhance LEAP's Wills & Estates content and automation.
  • Client communication and feedback: Engage with clients, gather feedback, and work cross-functionally with our Forms, Development, and Product teams to bring your insights to life.
  • Enhance matter types: Oversee and continuously improve LEAP's Wills & Estates matter types to ensure seamless workflows for our users.
  • Modernize estate administration: Curate and expand LEAP's library of automated forms, ensuring they accurately populate with client data for faster, error-free document creation.
  • Work with AI tools: Develop intelligent AI prompt templates and leverage LEAP's AI capabilities to generate draft affidavits, letters, and other documents - revolutionizing how lawyers prepare materials.
  • Drive new projects: Support strategic content initiatives through research, analysis, and project management, helping deliver best-in-class products to our clients.

Required Qualification
  • LL.B. or J.D. degree with active membership in good standing with a Canadian Law Society.
  • Minimum 3 years' experience practicing in Wills, Lifetime Planning, and Estate Administration.
  • Strong legal research, drafting, and analytical skills.
  • A genuine passion for legal technology and innovation - experience using practice management or document automation software is an asset.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills - you enjoy working across teams and departments.
  • Strong organizational and project management abilities with a focus on quality and detail.
  • A proactive, curious mindset - you love finding smarter, simpler ways to get things done.

Benefits

Why work at LEAP?

There are endless opportunities within our business to progress and grow your career and full training is provided so an aptitude and hunger to learn is essential. We offer:
  • Competitive compensation with a base salary plus bonus structure. The base salary band for this role ranges from: $100,000 CAD - $140,000 CAD annually. Salary will be based on level of experience.
  • Excellent group insurance benefits
  • RRSP with employer matching
  • Generous Paid Time Off (PTO), including starting at 4 weeks' vacation, sick days, floater/personal days and volunteer days
  • Hybrid working model at our beautiful and modern downtown Toronto office as well as work from home days
  • Collaborative and inclusive work environment filled with learning and support

At LEAP,

We care about what we do and the people we work with

We continually improve to be the best

We NEVER EVER GIVE UP!

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