Job Description
JOB DESCRIPTION
Role: Lawyer
Location: MPM Properties Abu Dhabi branch
ROLE PURPOSE:
. Supporting MPM legal & collection operations & support to Property Management – UAE
Key Accountabilities of the role
. Assisting businesses to prevent, navigate, and resolve complex legal issues.
. Assisting and advising businesses on establishing their company's structure, policies, objectives, and procedures for their business operations.
. Ensuring all relevant laws and outcomes are understood and obeyed by businesses.
. Researching and resolving legal disputes through the analysis of relevant laws, argument development, evidence collection, and legal representation.
. Drafting, reviewing, completing, and filing legal paperwork related to business operations.
. Examining and reporting any potential or existing legal issues to the relevant authorities.
. Negotiating contract terms, transactions, and settlements on behalf of the businesses involved.
. Ensuring all business processes, strategies, and actions comply with all relevant local, state, federal, and international laws.
. Managing multiple cases, and legal activities that carry varying deadlines.
. Daily record keeping with electronic and hard copy filing of documents.
. Prepare and format legal and management reports.
. Ensure efficient and effective administrative information and assistance.
. Preparing affidavits, legal correspondence and other documents for external lawyer
. Meeting with clients, external lawyer, and other professionals to talk about case details.
. Filing pleadings with court clerk.
. Keeping law library up-to-date by monitoring legal volumes.
Specialist Skills / Technical Knowledge Required for this role:
. Law degree is a must, LLM in law is desirable
. Fluency in English & Arabic (written / spoken)
. Proficient with Microsoft Office, specifically Outlook, Word, and Excel.
. Strong oral and written communication skills.
. Excellent organizational skills.
. Must be able to effectively multi-task, manage time sensitive documents and have exceptional organizational skills in a fast-paced environment.
. Must be able to function effectively in a busy, team-oriented environment.
. Office administration experience.
. Problem Solving Skills: Prioritizing urgent and critical tasks possession a can-do-approach attitude and create back-ups, full awareness of responsibilities and situations
. Customer Management Skills: Take initiatives and create solutions for day-to day challenges.
. Reporting skills: must have ability of presentation skills, ability to use oracle, excel sheets, in addition to ability to create a reporting system within the team.
. Experience in drafting, negotiating and reviewing legal documents.
. Analytical thinker with strong conceptual and research skills.
Previous experience:
. 5 years work experience with law firm or legal department
Job Details
Employment Types:
Full time
Industry:
Banking / Accounting / Financial Services
Function:
Manufacturing / Engineering / R&D , Legal
Roles:
Lawyer / Attorney , Private Practitioner / Lawyer
