Senior Legal Officer Job Openings

About the job

Purpose of Job

To assist Head of Legal, Unit Head Litigation and Manager Legal with the working of legal department.

Job Responsibilities

• Assist in drafting and vetting various legal documents, polices and contracts.
• Maintaining record, master index and filing of all legal documents in the internal repository.
• Devolving and maintaining an organized internal deliverable system.
• To carry out Legal or other researches as and when required.
• Handel routines legal queries from Head Office and Branches.
• Drafting of POAs issued to lawyers, preparing lawyers invoices and maintaining all record of the same in the assigned format.
• To stamp and process all agreements prior to signing of all signatories, maintain a track of agreements sent for signatures and timely disburse to the relevant departments for execution.
• Procure stamp paper as per defined SOP and print legal agreements as and when required.
• To prepare department’s meeting presentations and minutes of meeting
• Updating daily and weekly dashboards as required.

Technical Competency

• Thoroughly acquainted with legal researching websites such Pakistan law site, Lexis Nexis, Westlaw, HeinOnline, JSTOR etc.
• Proficient knowledge of various laws and statutes on subject such as labor law, banking law and company law.
• Good knowledge of MS word and Power Point.
• Good Written and Oral Communication skills.
• Excellent Record Management Skills

Soft Competency

• Organizational Skills.
• Problem Solving.
• Ability to work in a team and independently.

Experience and Qualification

• Hold a Bachelors of Law (Hons.) from a renowned local or foreign University
• Have minimum 2-3 years of experience in an organization primarily working in contract/corporate section.