Legal Assistant
A well established organization, seeks to engage the services of the following qualified personnel
Key responsibilities and duties
- Draft and vet simple contracts, leases and other legal instruments
- Draft status reports on court matters affecting the Company
- Coordinate all land matters and transactions the Company is involved in
- Coordinate on all status of matters within the legal department
- Monitor and Keep track of all documents and reports generated with the legal services section
- Ensure that all documents, records and files are kept in a proper manner.
- Assist in drafting legal opinions
- Classify and catalogue all the records
- Do other duties as may be assigned by the Legal Manager from time to time.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor of Laws from a recognized University
- Recently admitted to the Roll of advocates or Completion of pupilage
- Due diligence and attention to detail
- Computer literacy
- Good administrative and coordination skills
- Experience in a Corporate law department will be an added advantage
Legal Officer
Key responsibilities and duties
- Follow up of all court cases facing the company and attend any court hearings on behalf of the Company whenever need arises.
- Providing legal advise to departmental managers including reviewing legal documentation
- Management of legal due diligence and liaising with external legal counsel as required
- Drafting Standard contracts and specialized contracts for specific activities
- Reviewing and Negotiating contracts to which the company is a party
- Ensuring that all such documents and third party contracts are properly and promptly executed.
- Monitoring and reporting changes to applicable statutes and regulations
- Monitoring and reporting on compliance risk
- Preparing legal cases in conjunction with external counsel monitoring progress to ensure prompt resolution of all disputes.
- Reporting to the Legal Manager and perform all such duties as shall be assigned from time to time.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor of Laws from a recognized University
- Must have been admitted to the roll of advocates and having in force a current practicing certificate
- Ability to work as a team
- Computer literacy, presentation and reporting skills
- Keen to details, hardworking and ability to work unsupervised
- One (1) to (2) years Experience in a busy corporate law department and/or a busy law firm.
The Human Resources Officer
P. O. Box 46279-00100
P. O. Box 46279-00100
Nairobi GPO
OR Email: hr.user13@gmail.com
Applications must be received not later than 17th March 2014 by 5.30pm.