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About this position

The Senior Legal Officer is responsible for providing legal support, drafting documents, and ensuring compliance with laws and regulations while managing legal staff and liaising with various departments.

Responsibilities

• Check and Draft correspondence, lengthy, complex commercial agreements and legal documents
• Monitoring and coaching legal staffs, including liaising between the legal department and other departments
• 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, LL.M Degree, or similar
• Minimum 3 - 5 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 legal knowledge and understanding of legal terminology an advantage
• Good communication (written and verbal) skills in the English language.
• Ability to work well under pressure in a team environment
• Ability to prioritize and plan a challenging work load
• Ability to exercise good judgment and discretion and to handle a demanding case load
• 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 = 700 and above preferred

Benefits