Associate Legal Counsel

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Key responsibilities:

• Undertakes legal research
• Undertakes basic negotiation review and drafting of contracts
• Attends meetings and calls with senior lawyers takes notes and undertakes follow up actions
• Demonstrates the ability to provide assistance in basic legal and procedural areas
• Drafts and proof reads documents and presentations
• Develops professional relationships and client skills; the Trainee Lawyer will learn to build working-relationships with internal and external stakeholders including becoming confident in front of such stakeholders and quickly earning their trust
• Ensures that client matter files are kept up to date with correspondence and documents
• Participates in the legal departments marketing and networking strategies as directed
• Conducts general administrative tasks alongside other trainees or legal assistants
• Develops and delivers training and legal risk management initiatives to assistmanagement in strategically managing legal risks (e.g. business training legal updates regulatory newsletters etc.)
• Supports implementation of best-practices in compliance contract management intellectual property data privacy and M&A
• Helps co-ordinate projects
• Gains exposure to a broad range of legal regulatory and commercial matters across multiple business functions and jurisdictions while developing an understanding of the organisations business operations and risk environment.
• Supports the legal team in identifying escalating and tracking legal and compliance risks and contributes towards the development of practical business-oriented solutions under the guidance of senior lawyers.
• Assists in the creation maintenance and improvement of legal templates playbooks standard operating procedures and knowledge management resources to drive consistency and operational efficiency within the legal function.
• Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders including finance procurement human resources compliance technology and business teams to support ongoing projects and commercial initiatives.
• Develops an understanding of applicable laws industry regulations internal governance frameworks and ethical standards relevant to the organisation and its operations.
• Supports contract lifecycle management activities including document tracking execution coordination repository management and monitoring of contractual obligations.
• Assists with due diligence exercises internal reviews audits investigations and information gathering exercises as may be required from time to time.
• Demonstrates a proactive approach to learning professional development and continuous improvement while effectively managing assigned responsibilities and timelines.
• Contributes to fostering a collaborative professional and solutions-oriented culture within the legal team and broader organisation.
• Undertakes additional responsibilities and special projects as reasonably assigned by the legal team or business leadership from time to time.

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