Legal Officer

Apparel Training & Design Centre(ATDC); Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Apparel Training & Design Centre (ATDC) in Gurugram invites an experienced legal professional to manage corporate legal matters, contracts, and compliance. The role involves advising on regulatory issues, risk management, and coordinating with external counsel to protect the organization.

You will draft and review agreements, monitor litigation, and ensure timely compliance across corporate, labour, and commercial laws, reporting to senior management.

Qualifications

• Minimum experience in drafting and reviewing contracts and legal documents.
• Strong understanding of corporate, labour, commercial, and regulatory laws.
• Ability to identify legal risks and provide practical business-oriented solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Manage the organization's legal matters, disputes and regulatory requirements, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Draft, review, negotiate and finalize business contracts, agreements, notices, undertakings, letters, and other legal documents.
• Handle and monitor litigation, consumer disputes, arbitration matters, regulatory proceedings, and other legal cases.
• Coordinate with external lawyers, law firms, counsels, and monitor progress of ongoing matters.

Skills

Legal drafting

Documentation

Regulatory compliance

Litigation management

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Manage the organizations legal matters, disputes and regulatory requirements, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations.


• Management of legal risks, statutory requirements, policies and business-related legal matters.


• Protect the organization from legal exposure by identifying potential risks and recommending appropriate preventive and corrective measures.


• Draft, review, negotiate and finalize business contracts, agreements, legal notices, undertakings, letters, and other legal documents.


• Handle and monitor litigation, consumer disputes, arbitration matters, regulatory proceedings, and other legal cases involving the organization.


• Coordinate with external lawyers, law firms, counsels, and other legal professionals and monitor the progress of ongoing matters.


• To provide timely advice on applicable laws, rules, regulations, and judicial developments.


• Monitor changes in corporate, labour, commercial, and other applicable laws and advise relevant departments on their impact.


• Assist in developing, reviewing, and updating company policies, procedures, agreements and internal guidelines to ensure legal and regulatory compliance.


• Maintain proper records of contracts, litigation matters, legal notices, regulatory communications, and other legal documentation.


• Perform other legal and compliance-related responsibilities as assigned by management time to time.

Preferred candidate profile & Skills

• Strong legal drafting, writing, and documentation skills.


• Strong organizational skills with the ability to effectively manage and monitor multiple legal matters and litigation proceedings before Labour Courts, District Courts, and High Courts, while ensuring timely compliance with all deadlines and legal requirements.


• Sound knowledge of corporate, labour, commercial, and regulatory laws.


• Ability to identify legal risks and provide practical, business-oriented solutions.


• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.


• Ability to work effectively with Senior Management, internal departments, external counsel, and regulatory authorities.


• High level of integrity, confidentiality, attention to detail, and professional judgment.