Legal Associate

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**Job Description**:
JOB TITLE
- Legal Associate, LTS (Contract Management), Epiq Global, Hyderabad, India

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Drafting, vetting and maintaining a repository of various agreements, notices and other legal documents.
- Assist in Relevancy, Privilege, Data Privacy Reviews: Review documents to identify items relevant to investigation or dispute consulting matter;
- Participate in missed relevancy or privilege concepts and/or perform quality control;
- Assist with researching technical and industry-specific issues;
- Assist with drafting of reports and findings, including the preparation of tables, exhibits, and charts.

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES REQUIRED:

- Evaluate and perform the review, annotation, abstraction, and summarization of various types of contracts including Non-Disclosure Agreements, License Agreements, Master Service Agreements and Distribution Agreements according to contract templates.
- Work on different platforms (CLM tools) and adopt new technologies.
- Working knowledge of the Microsoft Office (i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Vision, and Outlook) and contract management systems
- Perform legal research, compliance, due diligence related work
- Escalate queries based on sample documents as and when required
- Report metrics appropriately
- Track and report quality for the QC’ed work
- Contribute best practices for the work performed
- Maintain confidentiality of all information of organization and client information
- Complete work on time along with maintaining the required quality
- Ensure that the daily targets are achieved
- Work as a team member
- Work on different platforms (CLM tools) and adopt new technologies
- Ability to read and understand complex contractual languages in lieu of client’s requirements
- High level of positive attitude (‘Can do’ attitude) and follow problem solving approach
- Target Driven along with an eye for details
- Quick learner and adaptive to any process change in a mínimal time period
- Flexible to work in rotating shifts
- Good in written and verbal English
- Ability to comprehend questions and respond appropriately (writing and verbal)
- Logical thinking and good decision-making abilities
- Work independently, self-learning attitude, disciplined, sincere and need less supervision
- Familiar with the U.S. judicial system, understanding of legal fundamentals, methods, and procedures from the U.S. perspective (Not Applicable to Freshers);
- 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;
- Should be a Team Player, open to feedback, and contribute to building positive team spirit;
- Ethics: Treats people with respect, keeps commitments, and works with integrity.

REPORTING

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE:

- LLB (three
- or five-year program), LLM (optional) India or Abroad;
- Work Experience: should be post qualification 0-3 Years;
- For Freshers (Final year results should not be pending).

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us