Associate – Legal (Research)

Job Description

Designation: Associate Legal - Research 

Experience (years): 5+ yrs

No: of vacancies: 3

Location: Hybrid / Work from home

Workdays: Monday to Friday

Work timing: 9am to 6pm (10.30 p.m. – 7.30 a.m. EST)

Immediate Joining is preferred

Job Summary: Job profile: To work on a legal research and document review project for a UK-based client on US-specific matters.

Roles and Responsibilities:

•  Prepare memorandums, including research and legal analytics.
•  Research and prepare answers to legal questions under various topics in the US.
•  Review of Legal Documents on the client platform.
•  Interact and work with a team of US attorneys.
•  Manage and lead the team of lawyers on the project, if requirement arises.
•  Think innovative and improve processes.

Training: Training will be provided by both offshore and onshore attorneys. Training mainly focuses on refining research and writing skills, sharpening legal thinking, and use of legal research tools, including the client’s platforms.

Benefits of growing with LawCompany:

•  Exposure to premium litigation services
•  Work directly for US attorneys
•  Work culture that encourages diversity
•  Workspace imbued with empathy and purpose
•  Continuous learning & ability to work on diverse areas of law

LegalEase is an ISO 27001 certified company.

LegalEase Information Security Role, Responsibilities & Authority of an employee

Roles:

• To ensure that all the information they handle is secure.

Responsibilities

• Responsible to follow all the information security policies, procedures, rules and regulations as stipulated in the manuals.
• Responsible to take immediate action to prevent any undesirable situations and report to the officers.
• Responsible to take part in their assigned role in the event of an emergency situation.

Authority

• To report any security incident or weaknesses, which comes to their knowledge.

Contract Staff

• Responsible to follow the rules and regulations and move within the area specified.
• Responsible to obey the instructions for all the officers and staff regarding the work and in emergency situations.

Responsible to report any undesirable incidents.

Why join LegalEase?

• A work culture that celebrates and encourages diversity;
• A workspace imbued with empathy and purpose;
• We believe in continuous learning. You will walk away acquiring more skills than you had; when you joined us (this is a guarantee on us);
• We value transparency, flexibility and over responsiveness;
• We are constantly striving to improve our employees work-life blend;
• We believe in FUN at work. We take this very seriously and have FUN as one of our core values;