Key Responsibilities:

1. Revenue Focus & Business Growth

- Drive Client Acquisition: Proactively identify and pitch to target clients, converting market opportunities into active engagements.
- Commercial Hustle: Work closely with business development and management to cross-sell legal services, upsell existing clients, and unlock new revenue channels.
- Market Expansion: Stay plugged into market trends and regulatory shifts to create innovative, productized legal solutions for potential clients.

2. Hands-on Execution & Client Management

- End-to-End Client Delivery: Manage high-stakes client relationships from initial pitch and onboarding through to final deliverable, ensuring exceptional client satisfaction.
- Tailored Solutions: Draft, negotiate, and structure complex commercial agreements, corporate governance frameworks, and dispute resolution strategies aligned with client business objectives.
- Relationship Building: Serve as the primary, trusted point of contact for key client stakeholders, establishing long-term account retention.

3. Team Leadership & Drive

- Drive Operations & Momentum: Motivate and guide junior associates, instilling a sense of urgency, high quality standards, and accountability across the team.
- Skill Development: Mentor team members on commercial awareness, client negotiation techniques, and effective legal drafting.
- Workflow Optimization: Manage day-to-day caseloads, assign tasks strategically,



and ensure all client deadlines are met without compromising service quality.

4. Operational & Performance Excellence

- Outcome-Oriented Processes: Streamline legal workflows, templates, and execution models to improve turn-around times and profitability per engagement.
- Metric Tracking: Monitor key metrics around turnaround time, client feedback, conversion rates, and revenue targets.

Qualifications & Experience

- Education: Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) or equivalent from a top-tier institution.
- Experience: 35 years of active practice in corporate law, commercial contracts, and dispute resolution (law firm or high-growth startup environment preferred).
- Mindset: Proven track record or strong inclination toward business development, client pitching, and revenue generation.
- Skills: Strong drafting, negotiation, and analytical skills combined with sharp commercial instinct.
- Drive: Ability to work under pressure, manage high volume, and lead team efforts with enthusiasm and resilience.

In a nutshell, we aren't looking for a corporate lawyer with a high-energy, mid-level lawyer with real commercial hustle. Youll be executing complex legal work, but you’ll also be out front—pitching to prospective clients, closing deals, driving revenue, and pushing our junior team to operate with speed and precision.

Work Location : Chennai, Ambattur

Shift timings : 10 am to 7pm

Work Days: Monday to Saturday

📌 Legal Inhouse Counsel ! Client Onboarding (Chennai)
🏢 Vakilsearch
📍 Chennai