Legal Counsel for US Disputes & Litigation

Role Demands:

• Assist in all facets of litigation, including pre-disputes, fact investigation, drafting legal responses , responding to subpoenas and other discovery requests, preparing witnesses for testimony, and negotiating and drafting settlements

• Perform leg al work in-house whenever possible
• Interact with outside counsel, including, budgets and invoices, compliance with outside counsel guidelines, and work product
• Draft succinct, practical legal advice
• Identify, review, analyze, manage and resolve pre-disputes
• I mplement, and enforce company policies on eDiscovery

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Respond to dispute and pre-dispute demand letters
• Counsel business and stakeholders on legal dispute best-practices
• Analyze case files, contracts, documentary evidence, and carry out litigation strategy
• Conducting interviews, gather documents and electronic records

• Coordinate and schedule depositions, hearings, trials, conferences and meetings
• Summarize calls, set action items, follow through to closure
• Verify information, locate evidence and exhibits
• Manage budgets, billing and invoices
• Negotiate rates and contracts for legal services vendors

• Maintain a case management database
• Obtain copies of company and court documents

Qualifications:

Experience and skill set required:

• The ideal candidate will be a law graduate with 3-4 years' experience
• At least one year Disputes experience .
• At least one year inhouse at a n IT services company.

• US law or Canadian law experience is a bonus.
• The Legal Counsel will be part of the US Geo Legal team and be expected to deal with a variety of matters. This role would suit a detail oriented professional with good organizational skills and excellent English writing and oral communication skills who works well with a very diverse range of functions and is comfortable with uncertainty.
• Very strong people skills.
• Able to work independently
• Law graduate. LLM from US or Canada is a bonus .