Legal Careers at Auger Hollingsworth
Are you a recent law school graduate or an experienced personal injury lawyer looking for a new firm to call home? If so, Auger Hollingsworth is looking for new team members to join their distinguished roster of legal experts in Ottawa and Toronto.
Current openings are below, and candidates are encouraged to apply to Richard Auger at [email protected].
The below listings were last updated on 1/10/2025.
Criminal Defence Lawyer
Our Mission:
The Criminal Defence litigation group of Auger Hollingsworth Lawyers want to hire an experienced Criminal Defence Lawyer to have full carriage of criminal defence files from inception through to trial. There will also be opportunities to learn and conduct civil litigation matters.
It is mandatory that the Lawyer must have at least 3 years of criminal litigation experience as either defence counsel or crown counsel. Ideally, the candidate would live in the Ottawa area. However, for the right “A Player”, the candidate can live anywhere in Ontario if willing to travel throughout Ontario when necessary. We have offices in Ottawa and Toronto. Although we prefer the lawyer to be on-site we are open to hybrid or remote for the right candidate.
This is an opportunity for an experienced lawyer to focus on the practice of law and not marketing of legal services or running a business! We provide all clients, systems, operations, support, marketing and processes so that you can focus on top client service and results. This will allow you to maintain a productive and prolific caseload with the ability to impact the lives of many people who need your help. You will have access to practice management, excellent technology and research resources. You will have professional autonomy but still have the support and collaboration of an established firm and senior counsel as mentors and co-counsel.
Outcomes/Deliverables:
- Defend criminal and regulatory matters on behalf of accused persons in a timely manner to resolution or to trial if necessary
- Meet with clients and build cases from inception through to pre-trial and trial.
- Collaborate with other lawyers and firm owners on case developments and strategies.
- Be continually engaged in continuing legal education, reading case law, attending legal conferences and otherwise learning how to improve your trial litigation knowledge and skills.
Competencies:
- Experience as either lead counsel or co-counsel in conducting at least 25 criminal trials to verdict. Crown counsel or defence experience are both encouraged to apply.
- Must demonstrate through reported cases, writing samples and/or professional references that you have superb oral and written advocacy skills.
- Able to demonstrate being an excellent legal researcher and writer.
- Able to demonstrate exceptionally high-quality legal documents with original content and recent jurisprudence including Facta, all pre-trial Applications, s. 276 and s. 278 Applications, Supporting affidavits, Charter Applications, up to date casebooks, written submissions etc.
- You must have an excellent reputation amongst defence counsel, crown counsel and the judiciary;
- Only “A Players” who understand that in order to be a top litigation lawyer one must work hard and long hours, continually learn and go the extra mile at all times.
- Your actions must align with your words. Do what you say!
- Organization and Planning: Plan, organize and schedule future litigation events in order to ensure cases are moving toward resolution or trial on a regular basis.
- Must be able to demonstrate superb trial preparation experience and skills.
- Enthusiastic and always brings high energy
- Work ethic: Willing to work long hours to achieve excellent results
- Superior soft skills and emotional intelligence enabling you to get the very best out of all those with whom you interact
- Unquestionable honesty and integrity, decision making skills, and creativity. Earns a high level of trust
- A competitive nature with an unrelenting desire to win ethically.
Culture and Compensation:
- We promote individuality and support diversification. We foster a work environment comprised of legal professionals with varied skills, lifestyles, and opinions. Diversity and inclusion are integral parts of our strategic plan for success. The Firm is committed to recruiting, retaining, and promoting professionals of diverse ethnicity, culture, race, gender, and minority orientation.
- We offer a collegial work environment with competitive salary, bonus opportunities and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, unlimited vacation, life and long-term disability insurance, and a firm matching pension plan.
Our Core Values and What We Believe In:
- Brutal Honesty: We are brutally honest about everything to everyone, we tell the truth about everything to all clients, the Courts, other lawyers, fellow teammates and the public in general. We don’t sugar coat or just tell others what they want to hear. We say “what needs to be said.”
- We have No B.S. Accountability: We are brave enough to admit when we’re wrong or when we’ve made mistakes and take the initiative to correct the issue. At the same time, we also own and celebrate all WINS!
- We execute with Excellence. We value all progress and achievement for clients and all team members.
Apply in Strict Confidence:
Please email a brief outline explaining how you meet the above requirements with any supporting material, including resume and cover letter to the attention of Richard Auger at [email protected].
(Last Updated: January 10, 2025)
Personal Injury Litigation Lawyer
Signing Bonus for Top-Candidate!
Auger Hollingsworth Accident & Injury Lawyers (www.ahinjurylaw.com) want to hire an experienced Personal Injury Litigation Lawyer to have full carriage of plaintiff files from inception to conclusion. The Lawyer must have at least three years of plaintiff personal injury litigation experience. Please do not apply if you do not have this experience.
Must “Own Results” in this contingency results-based practice by measuring, tracking, and reporting on case progress and settlements. We need a strong litigation lawyer to roll their sleeves and step into a full litigation practice.
For the right A-Player, you can live anywhere in Ontario if you are willing to do some travel to Toronto and Ottawa. We are offering 100% remote, in-office, or hybrid for top candidates.
Outcomes/Deliverables:
- Work independently with your law clerk/paralegal to prosecute all plaintiffs’ cases on time and to achieve a fair, reasonable, and timely resolution.
- Meet with clients and build cases from inception/pre-litigation through discovery, mediation, pre-trial, and trial.
- Plan all cases each quarter forward to ensure that cases will be ready for resolution.
- Maintain a weekly target of fair and reasonable settlements to ensure clients receive excellent results and the firm generates regular revenue.
- Must understand and appreciate the importance of weekly advancing cases to achieve fair settlements for all clients.
- Manage, delegate to, and supervise a law clerk/paralegal.
- Collaborate with other associate lawyers and firm owners on case development and strategies.
- Be continually engaged in continuing legal education, reading case law, attending legal conferences, and learning how to improve your litigation knowledge and skills.
Competencies:
- Only an “A Player” who understands that to be a top litigator lawyer, one must work hard and long hours, continually learn, and go the extra mile at all times.
- Your actions must align with your words. Do what you say!
- Organization and Planning: Plan, organize, and schedule future litigation events to ensure cases are moving toward resolution on a weekly/quarterly basis.
- Strategic Executor of all litigation skills, including client management, preparing for and attending discovery, mediation, pre-trial, and trial.
- Enthusiastic and always brings high energy!
- Work ethic: Willing to work long hours to achieve excellent results.
- Superior soft skills and emotional intelligence enable you to get the best out of all you interact with.
- Unquestionable honesty and integrity, decision-making skills, and creativity. Earns a high level of trust
- A competitive nature with an unrelenting desire to win
Our Core Values and What We Believe In
- We get it Done!
- We have No B.S. Accountability: We are brave enough to admit when we’re wrong or made mistakes and take the initiative to correct the issue. We also own and celebrate all WINS!
- We serve with Integrity.
- We execute with Excellence and High Standards.
Culture and Compensation:
- We promote individuality and support diversification. We foster a work environment of legal professionals with varied skills, lifestyles, and opinions. Diversity and inclusion are integral parts of our strategic plan for success.
- The Firm is committed to recruiting, retaining, and promoting professionals of diverse ethnicity, culture, race, gender, and minority orientation.
- We offer a collegial work environment with a competitive salary, profit share, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, unlimited vacation, life, and long-term disability insurance, and a firm matching pension plan.
- Opportunity to earn $200k per year with bonus incentive plus base salary!
- Signing bonus offer for top candidate!
Apply in Strict Confidence:
Please email a brief outline explaining how you meet the above requirements with all supporting material, including
resume and cover letter to Richard Auger [email protected].
(Last Updated: January 10, 2025)
SEO Technical Specialist (Remote or Hybrid)
Mission:
Auger Hollingsworth is an accident and injury law firm with offices in Ottawa and Toronto. We are determined to become Ontario’s largest personal injury law firm.
You must have professional experience in technical SEO and content creation, which increases SEO rankings, traffic, and conversions to build authority and brand awareness for our law firm.
The main goal is to acquire high-quality links from other websites to our own to boost organic traffic and authority. You must have agency experience executing outreach strategies to secure high-quality backlinks from prestigious websites and media outlets.
This is an opportunity for a digital marketing professional not to juggle numerous clients! You will have only one client to work with, our law firm!
This is a full-time remote or hybrid role.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities, Activities, and Deliverables:
- Grow our organic presence by working with our marketing team to optimize traffic and conversion rates for organic traffic and build out a best-in-class SEO strategy
- Develop and execute a well-informed strategy for SEO growth and new content generation.
- Conduct ongoing keyword and traffic volume research to generate traffic and in-market audience generation.
- Execute ongoing optimization of blog and site metadata and images for SEO.
- Conduct ongoing video optimization on Wistia, YouTube, and other streaming portals.
- Report weekly on SEO critical metrics (including Ranking, Traffic, CTR, Conversion, Visibility, Competition ranking, and CPA).
- Conduct ongoing SERP analysis and optimize on-page content and internal link architecture.
- Identify and resolve crawl errors, sitemaps, site speed issues, and any other technical issues that can impact ranking.
- Work with the marketing team to create and test white-hat link-building strategies that align with Google’s guidelines.
- Assess and identify internal linking opportunities and broken links.
- Keep track of anchor text relevancy, the disavow file, and other areas related to the overall backlink health of the website.
- Conduct competitor analysis to uncover gaps in backlink profiles and identify areas of opportunity for improvement.
- Assist with content creation, copywriting, and editing on an as-needed basis.
Reporting to the Co-Founders of the law firm, you will be expected to:
- Drive >10% organic traffic growth every quarter by executing, developing and innovating on SEO systems.
- Drive >5% organic conversion growth on a quarterly basis by executing, developing and innovating on SEO systems.
- Drive >15% organic ranking increases on a quarterly basis by executing, developing and innovating on SEO systems.
- Deliverables are always on time, high quality, and aligned to client goals.
Minimum Requirements:
- University degree required (preferably in Computer Science or Marketing). New graduates with relevant experience welcome.
- 3-5+ years Digital PR and Outreach and/or SEO/Organic search marketing experience. Ideally, agency experience with strong references.
- An in-depth understanding of CURRENT search engine behavior:
- Applied knowledge of keyword research, on-page optimization, ranking factors, technical factors (display code JavaScript, CSS, html, xml sitemap), and SEO Audits.
- Applied knowledge of keyword analysis for products/services/industries.
- Analytical/problem solving skills and attention to details skills (quality).
- A working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and/or other programming languages.
- Staying up to date on current industry practices, news and algorithm updates.
- SEMRush, Ahrefs, Majestic, Screaming Frog experience.
- In-depth knowledge of GA4 and all other related tools, including third-party keyword research, SEO and optimization tools.
- Strong Technical SEO understanding & background.
- Familiarity with paid search marketing and how paid & organic search works together.
Culture:
- We promote individuality and support diversification. We foster a work environment comprised of legal professionals with varied skills, lifestyles, and opinions. Diversity and inclusion are integral parts of our strategic plan for success. The Firm is committed to recruiting, retaining, and promoting professionals of diverse ethnicity, culture, race, gender, and minority orientation.
- We offer a collegial work environment with competitive hourly pay in a remote work setting with flexible hours.
- Strong, competitive compensation with solid benefits package
- The personal reward associated with playing a role in the growth of a cool law firm – plus it is a rare opportunity to transform an entire industry – you can be especially proud to tell you family about the significant impact you are having in changing the way injured people get help.
Compensation and Perks:
- $50,000 to $80,000 annual salary plus bonus incentives depending on experience
- Unlimited Vacation policy
- Pension matching program
- Full health and dental benefits
- A hybrid work environment
Our Core Values:
- We get it Done.
- We have No B.S. Accountability.
- We are driven to Win.
- We serve with Integrity.
- We execute with Excellence.
How We Promote Equity, Cultivate Leaders, and Grow Together:
- Auger Hollingsworth is dedicated to a culture where everyone can show up to work as their full, authentic selves.
- We believe the way we do one thing is the way we do everything. We will speak out against injustice when we see it, we commit to deepening our anti-racist practices, and we create tools and community that are equitable and accessible.
- We are committed to honoring, celebrating, and fostering diversity and inclusion on our team, in our clientele, and within our community. We value, respect, and support all types of diversity across all identities including, but not limited to ethnicity, race, gender, LGBTQIA+, age, religion, and abilities.
- We take responsibility for the community we are creating and we are here to contribute to the progression of our society to a more inclusive and equitable one.
Apply in Confidence:
- Send an email by January 24, 2025 with the subject line that states “SEO Technical Specialist” to Richard Auger at [email protected] with the following:
- Cover letter (or short video) with description of why you are aligned with this role and why you are interested in this role. Tell us about your SEO skills and experience
- Tell us about 2-3 of your greatest wins in helping the companies you have worked with to grow their business and bottom line?
- Please also include a link to your LinkedIn profile.
- All applications will be held in strict confidence. We thank all candidates for their application but will be contacting only those who we select to invite for an interview.
(Last Updated: January 10, 2025)
Digital PR and Outreach Specialist (Remote or Hybrid)
Mission:
Auger Hollingsworth is an accident and injury law firm with offices in Ottawa and Toronto. We are determined to become Ontario’s largest personal injury law firm.
You must have professional experience in Digital PR, Outreach, SEO link building, thought leader positioning and content writing for SEO rankings which build authority and brand awareness for our law firm.
The main goal is to acquire high-quality links from other websites to our own to boost organic traffic and authority. You must have agency experience executing outreach strategies to secure high quality backlinks from prestigious websites and media outlets.
This is an opportunity for a digital marketing professional to not have to juggle numerous clients! You will have only one client to work with and that is our law firm!
This is a full-time remote or hybrid role.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities, Activities, and Deliverables:
- Manage and execute on digital PR and Outreach campaigns
- Build and maintain relationships with journalists, bloggers, influencers, and other online media outlets
- Daily news scanning and monitoring of various PR platform tools to match suitable journalist queries to the legal industry
- Research and creation of newsworthy content supported by data and studies
- Conduct relevant research and write persuasive public relations submissions and guest blogs that are legal industry related.
- Secure high-quality backlinks, mentions, and coverage for the law firm on relevant and authoritative websites
- Measure and report on the performance and impact of digital PR activities using various tools and metrics such as SEMRush, MOZ, Ahrefs, Coverage Book, Data Studio, and G4
- Stay updated on the latest trends, best practices, and opportunities in Digital PR and SEO
- Utilize outlets such as Qwoted to pitch journalists and secure high authority placements for our law firm.
- Develop compelling outreach messages through PR platforms and coordinate stories with journalists.
- Complete technical projects, including local directory projects, competitor analysis, and backlink audits.
- Develop and maintain strong personal relationships with key publishers and influencers (journalists, bloggers and PR professionals)
- Be a contact for our law firms media/PR-related inquiries.
- Present reports on a monthly and quarterly basis that demonstrate the results of PR outreach efforts and link-building campaigns.
Minimum Requirements:
- University degree required (preferably in Computer Science or Marketing). New graduates with relevant experience welcome.
- 3-5+ years Digital PR & Outreach and/or SEO/Organic search marketing experience.
- An in-depth understanding of CURRENT search engine behavior:
- Applied knowledge of keyword research, link building, on-page optimization, ranking factors, technical factors (display code JavaScript, CSS, html, XML sitemap), and SEO Audits.
- Applied knowledge of keyword analysis for products/services/industries.
- Analytical/problem solving skills and attention to details skills (quality).
- A working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and/or other programming languages.
- Staying up to date on current industry practices, news and algorithm updates.
- SEMRush, Ahrefs, Majestic, Screaming Frog experience.
- In-depth knowledge of GA4 and all other related tools, including third-party keyword research, SEO and optimization tools.
- Strong Technical SEO understanding & background.
- Familiarity with paid search marketing and how paid & organic search works together.
Culture:
- We promote individuality and support diversification. We foster a work environment comprised of legal professionals with varied skills, lifestyles, and opinions. Diversity and inclusion are integral parts of our strategic plan for success. The Firm is committed to recruiting, retaining, and promoting professionals of diverse ethnicity, culture, race, gender, and minority orientation.
- We offer a collegial work environment with competitive hourly pay in a remote work setting with flexible hours.
- Strong, competitive compensation with solid benefits package
- The personal reward associated with playing a role in the growth of a cool law firm – plus it is a rare opportunity to transform an entire industry – you can be especially proud to tell you family about the significant impact you are having in changing the way injured people get help.
Compensation and Perks:
- $50,000 to $80,000 annual salary plus bonus incentives depending on experience
- Unlimited Vacation policy
- Pension matching program
- Full health and dental benefits
- A hybrid work environment
Our Core Values:
- We get it Done.
- We have No B.S. Accountability.
- We are driven to Win.
- We serve with Integrity.
- We execute with Excellence.
How We Promote Equity, Cultivate Leaders, and Grow Together:
- Auger Hollingsworth is dedicated to a culture where everyone can show up to work as their full, authentic selves.
- We believe the way we do one thing is the way we do everything. We will speak out against injustice when we see it, we commit to deepening our anti-racist practices, and we create tools and community that are equitable and accessible.
- We are committed to honoring, celebrating, and fostering diversity and inclusion on our team, in our clientele, and within our community. We value, respect, and support all types of diversity across all identities including, but not limited to ethnicity, race, gender, LGBTQIA+, age, religion, and abilities.
- We take responsibility for the community we are creating and we are here to contribute to the progression of our society to a more inclusive and equitable one.
Apply in Confidence:
- Send an email by January 24, 2025 with the subject line that states “Digital PR & Outreach Specialist” to Richard Auger at [email protected] with the following:
- Cover letter (or short video) with description of why you are aligned with this role and why you are interested in this role
- Tell us about your Digital PR & Outreach skills and experience
- Tell us about 2-3 of your greatest wins in helping the companies you have worked with to grow their business and bottom line
- Please also include a link to your LinkedIn profile.
- All applications will be held in strict confidence. We thank all candidates for their application but will be contacting only those who we
select to invite for an interview.
(Last Updated: January 10, 2025)
