Role & responsibilities

Legal Assistant & Work Scope A Legal Assistant provides administrative, documentation, research, and coordination support to lawyers, legal teams, or corporate legal departments. The role helps ensure that legal matters are properly documented, organized, tracked, and followed up.

Position: Legal Assistant

Department: Legal & Compliance

Qualification: LL.b

Experience: 5-7 year in litigation and non-litigation;

CTC: 6 to 7 LPA

Key Responsibilities

- Assist the Company’s lawyers and legal officers with day-to-day legal activities.
- Prepare, format, review and maintain legal documents, Court filings, agreements, notices, letters, reports and.
- Conduct legal research using applicable laws, regulations, case laws, and government resources.
- Maintain and organize legal files, records, contracts, and case documents.
- Track court cases, hearings, deadlines, renewals, notices, and legal correspondence.
- Assist in drafting routine correspondence, legal notices, applications, and internal communications.
- Review contracts and documents for basic completeness, missing information, dates, signatures, and supporting documents.
- Coordinate with lawyers, clients, government departments, courts, vendors, and other stakeholders as required. Briefing advocates and counsels.
- Attend proceedings before various courts, including the High Court of Bombay and National Company Law Tribunal.
- Maintain contract registers, litigation trackers, compliance records, and legal databases.
- Assist with filing and submission of documents to courts, authorities, or government offices.
- Schedule meetings, hearings, calls, and appointments for the legal team.
- Prepare meeting notes, action points, and follow-up trackers.
- Support due diligence, document verification, and legal audits.
- Maintain confidentiality of sensitive legal and business information.
- Perform general administrative duties related to the legal department.

Work Scope





Area Typical Work

Documentation Drafting, reviewing and maintaining legal documents

Contracts Maintaining agreements, checking documentation, tracking expiry/renewal dates

Litigation Case-file management, hearing-date tracking, document preparation and coordination

Legal Research Finding relevant legislation, regulations and case-law information

Compliance Maintaining compliance calendars, records and supporting documents

Government/Court Work Filing, submissions, correspondence and follow-ups

Administration Scheduling, records management, correspondence and reporting

Coordination Liaising with lawyers, clients, authorities and internal departments

Confidentiality Handling sensitive contracts, disputes, corporate and personal information

Typical Daily Activities A Legal Assistant's day might involve:

1. Updating the litigation/case or contract tracker.
2. Preparing documents required by the lawyer.
3. Conducting basic legal research.
4. Reviewing documents for completeness.
5. Coordinating signatures or approvals.
6. Following up on court, government, client, or vendor matters.
7. Filing and organizing documents.
8. Updating management/legal reports.
9. Monitoring upcoming deadlines and renewals.

Skills & Qualifications

Common requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Law (LL.B.), experience in workings and filings of Bombay High Court and National Company Law Tribunal will be preferred.
- Knowledge of basic legal terminology and documentation.
- Strong MS Word and Excel skills.
- Valuable written and verbal communication.
- Legal research and document-review skills.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Time management and organizational skills.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Ability to manage multiple matters and deadlines.

Useful additional skills:
- Contract management
- Litigation/case management
- Compliance documentation
- Legal databases and online research
- Drafting legal correspondence
- Knowledge of relevant local laws and regulations

📌 Legal Assistant (Mumbai)
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