Legal Officer

Supports the General Counsel by maintaining, filing, and drafting, analyzing and researching legal documents, forms and correspondences.

Legal Officer

Job Summary

Supports the General Counsel by maintaining, filing, and drafting, analyzing and researching legal documents, forms and correspondences.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with General Counsel conducting ad-hoc legal research, and providing support with general company secretarial matters;
• Screening incoming telephone calls, taking and relaying accurate messages where necessary. Where appropriate, arrange and set up conferences and outgoing calls for the team;
• Assisting the General Counsel with reports on business service levels;
• Primary contact for legal and business services queries as the embedded team support;
• Ensure that all new matters and deadlines for follow-ups are accurately logged in the active matter database;
• Maintaining the Legal calendar;
• Ensuring electronic and hard copy document management files are kept up to date (including filing of emails and correspondence) when active and once closed that they are archived;
• Drafting and Sending correspondences; written and electronic;
• Drafting and reviewing simple legal documents including contracts, corporate governance forms and completing prescribed forms;
• Drafting, filing and managing various business entity documents in relation to the company’s interest in real property and intellectual property;
• Identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision-making;
• Assists the General Counsel with reviewing, tracking, and monitoring legislation that impacts the company’s products and/or processes;
• Updating General Counsel with timely analysis and summaries of new legislation/regulations affecting the business;
• Minute-taking, drafting Company Resolutions and minutes of meeting;
• Leading the way with innovation, technology and tools by supporting and trialing new initiatives; and
• Such other duties as the Company may reasonably require from time to time.

Qualification & Experience

• Bachelor of Laws (LLB);
• Legal Education Certificate (LEC);
• Minimum 2 years’ experience as a Legal Associate or other similar role;

Please submit your application by Friday, August 26, 2023.
We thank all applicants who express interest. However, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.