Legal Executive

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 new 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