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Job Description
The Legal Officer shall support the effective management of all legal matters as they relate to all facets of the legal function – Litigation, Corporate Commercial transactions, Contracts review, Data Privacy, Ethical Business Programs, Intellectual Property, Owned & Leased Property, Legal Advisory, and any other functional projects or assignments.
Responsibilities
- Work with external counsels to manage litigation and its attendant administrative processes
- Hold responsibility for monthly legal reporting.
- Contracts Management
- Hold responsibility for Legal Applications update and management – Bright Flag & Dilitrust
- Retrieve information on all legal issues, and files and build them into the existing legal function structure
- Provide administrative and legal support for internal investigations
- Ensure the development of service-level agreements for service support and delivery.
- Manage legal invoicing and track payments ensuring accuracy and promptness of payment.
- Support regulatory issues management
- Manage Property due diligence process
- Legal correspondence drafting
- Data Privacy Compliance Management
- All such other duties as directed by the Legal Manager
Qualifications
- A graduate degree in law (minimum of second class lower).
- 3-5 years of experience
- Member of the Nigerian Bar Association.
- Excellent written &verbal communication skills.
- Strong knowledge of the corporate commercial practice
- Ability to exercise sound judgment and discretion.
- Highly analytical with strong attention to detail.
- Great team player to support cohesive operations in the Legal Unit of the group.
- Sound knowledge of Microsoft Office applications especially Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
Location: Lagos, Nigeria.
For More Information: LEGAL ASSOCIATE
