Role & responsibilities

Trademark and IP

- Run trademark searches and give clear clearance advice
- Prepare and file trademark applications, and manage them through to registration
- Draft replies to examination reports and prepare for show-cause hearings
- Handle oppositions, counter-statements, renewals, assignments and recordals
- File copyright registrations
- Draft IP assignment, licence and co-existence agreements, and cease and desist notices
- Keep each client's trademark portfolio and deadlines up to date

Client legal work

- Draft and review commercial contracts, such as service agreements, NDAs, leases, vendor agreements and employment agreements
- Draft legal notices and replies
- Prepare board resolutions and handle basic Companies Act compliance
- Spend scheduled days at client offices, and cover colleagues' clients when needed
- Explain legal points simply to business owners and their staff, in Tamil and English

Content

- Appear in short videos (Instagram Reels) that explain legal topics for business owners

Preferred candidate profile

Must have

- LL.B. or B.A. LL.B.




- 3 to 6 years of experience, including trademark prosecution at an IP firm, a trademark filing firm or in-house
- Has independently handled at least 50 trademark applications from filing to registration, including replies to examination reports
- Some experience drafting commercial contracts
- Fluent Tamil and valuable written English
- Own two-wheeler and a valid driving licence
- Comfortable using AI tools for legal research and drafting

A plus

- Registered Trade Marks Agent
- Design registration experience
- Knowledge of HR and labour law, or GST

This is a full-time salaried role. If you are enrolled as an advocate, Bar Council of India rules require you to stop practising while you work full time with us.

Perks and benefits

- Rs 4.8 to 6 lakh a year (CTC)
- Provident Fund
- Travel to client offices reimbursed in full for each new client's first month, then a fixed monthly conveyance allowance

📌 Senior Legal Associate (Chennai)
🏢 Prime Counsel
📍 Chennai