Legal Officer
About this position
The Legal Officer is responsible for providing legal support, drafting documents, and ensuring compliance with laws and regulations while managing both domestic and international legal matters.
Responsibilities
• Check and Draft correspondence, lengthy, complex commercial agreements and legal documents
• Draft legal opinion and guidelines or any other policies
• Scrutinize legislation related to responsibilities
• Dealing with requests for legal opinions
• Analyze legislation and provide recommendation for appropriate interventions
• Typing of correspondence, commercial agreements and legal documents
• Liaising with domestic and international contacts
• Organize and coordinate internal and external meetings
• Handling of ad-hoc queries when requested, taking, typing and circulation of minutes to meetings
• Handling confidential correspondence and information
• Coordinating legal meetings
• Responding directly to queries
• Tracking and collating instructions received
• Systematic filing and labeling of files preparing and maintaining a comprehensive database of all current and archived files
• Collating contacts list and update regularly
• Managing and updating contract databases
Requirements
• LL.B Degree
• Minimum 3 years appropriate post qualification legal experience
• Lawyer License (if any)
• Legal Research, planning and decision-making skills
• In-depth knowledge of laws and legal processes
• Good interpersonal skills
• Problem solving and Willingness to learn
• Report writing and finding Dispute Resolution
• Ability to deal with international contacts and matters
• A systematic work method with a high attention to detail
• Good communication (written and verbal) skills in the English language.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team to assume responsibility where required
• Computer literate (MS Office, MS Outlooks, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint or etc.)
• TOEIC = 650 and above preferred