Walk-in | Legal Executive

Quislex Legal Services; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Job summary

Quislex Legal Services in India is seeking a Legal Executive to assist in contract summarization, contract management, legal research, drafting, and litigation research projects. You will apply knowledge of laws and ensure documents meet client requirements and quality standards.

Responsibilities include reviewing contracts, updating matrices, drafting agreements, uploading to databases, providing litigation support, and US law research using Westlaw.

Qualifications

• LLB/LLM from India or abroad; final year undergrads eligible.

Responsibilities

• Review contracts and capture details in client-specific matrices.

Skills

Analytical skills

Teamwork

Communication

Decision making

Quality focus

Legal research

Education

LLB/LLM (India or abroad)

Tools

Westlaw

Client databases

Electronic discovery tools

Job description

Job Description

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