Job Title: Legal Executive Reports to: Team Lead and above
Job Statement
Assists in contract summarization, contract management, legal research, drafting, litigation research related projects. Applies a working knowledge of applicable laws and regulations; verifies documents for completeness and compliance with quality and client requirements. The candidate will be required to fulfill a combination of one or more of the job responsibilities given below depending upon the nature of the project that is assigned to him/her.
Job responsibilities: Following are the job responsibilities: A. Contract Review
- Review contracts
- Capturing of the details in matrix formats as per the client requirements
- Updating new contracts in the matrix format on an ongoing basis for recent contracts
B. Contract Management
- Drafting contracts based on pre-agreed precedents and guidelines
- Uploading and maintenance of contracts in client databases and summarization of key terms used.
C. Litigation Support
- Objective coding
- Subjective coding
- Relevance and privilege analysis
- Electronic discovery
- Summarization/abstraction of relevant/key/voluminous documents
- Litigation related on-going legal research
- Data-intensive quasi-legal/non-legal research
- Training Data Conversion Associates on Litigation support software
D. Legal Research
- Ability to work comfortably on US law research using Westlaw, other subscription-based databases, etc.
- Drafting the legal information as per the client requirements
Job specifications:
- Qualification: LLB/LLM from India or abroad (Final year law undergrads eligible too)
- Legal Knowledge: Understanding of legal fundamentals, methods and procedures
- Analytical Skills: Independently solves complex problems
- Decision making: Exercises administrative judgment and assumes responsibility for decisions,
- consequences, and results having an impact on people, costs, and/or quality of service within the functional area
- Quality: Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness and overall quality of work is as per the requirement specified
- Teamwork: Gives and welcomes feedback, contributes to building positive team spirit, supports everyones efforts to succeed
- Communication: Good verbal and written communication skills and expresses opinion without hesitation
- Ethics: Treats people with respect, keeps commitments, and works with integrity