EKVITA is looking for Legal Manager
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EKVITA is looking for Legal Manager
EKVITA is currently looking for a Legal Manager.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing oversight and direction of the work of legal assistants (interns), junior lawyers, lawyers and senior lawyers
- Assigning tasks for performance of client inquiries
- Revision of completed tasks and deliverables
- Client management (day to day follow-up, client meetings, etc.)
- Conducting comprehensive legal research and preparation of legal opinions
- Carrying out presentations on ad hoc legal issues where necessary
- Conduction of due diligence, labour, ABC and other types of audits when and where necessary
- Advice on corporate structuring
- Directing and timely addressing client inquiries
- Management of independent projects
- Training new staff
- Develop a close professional working relationship with the management and employees
- Management of court cases or attendance in the hearings where necessary
- Review, draft and negotiation of major agreements
- Translation of complex commercial/legal scenarios into simple language and action plans
- Liaison with relevant State authorities, if necessary
Essential Qualifications and Experience
- Master’s degree (LL.M) is a must.
- Ideal candidate would have either bachelor or master’s degree from a foreign university (from UK or US)
- Preferably 7-10 years of law firm experience
Communication Skills
- Effective listener - able to listen carefully and comprehend all given instructions
- Excellent writing and verbal communication skills – able to express ideas concisely, unambiguously and consistently
Analytical Skills
- Excellent demonstrated analytical skills; able to spot legal issues and risks in a given transaction
- Ability and maturity to make independent judgement
Core Skills and Competencies
- A person with the right attitude, ambitious but with realistic in expectations
- High ethical and professional standards
- Ability to meet the tight deadlines and to work hard when necessary
- Fluency in Azerbaijani and English (both written and spoken); Russian would be an asset
- Effective computer literacy
- Ability to plan and organize work unsupervised
- Excellent team-player, respects and supports fellow colleagues
- Able to work directly with clients without supervision
Pay and Benefits
- Competitive salary will be offered to a good candidate based on skills and experience
- Medical insurance at a reputable insurance company will be provided
- Bonuses may be offered depending on the annual billing time (to be discussed and agreed)
- Good training opportunities both locally and overseas
- Interest-free long-term loans may also be provided to help finance legal education (to be agreed)
- Employees will also be eligible to get loans from a local bank based on terms agreed with such banks
Deadline: 30.10.2021
Interested candidates are requested to submit their resumes to hr@ekvita.com
Only candidates who noted vacancy name in the subject line (Legal Manager) will be considered.
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