Sr Corporate Counsel - Disputes & Litigation (9+ years)
Job opportunity for working professionals having at least 9 years of experience in Disputes Resolution as well as Litigation Management working on Analyzing case files, contracts, documentary evidence, and carry out litigation strategies.
Location: Delhi NCR/Bangalore
Roles and Responsibilities:
Responding to dispute and pre-dispute demand letters
Counseling business and stakeholders on legal dispute best-practices
Analyzing case files, contracts, documentary evidence, and carry out litigation strategy
Conducting interviews, gather documents and electronic records
Coordinating and scheduling depositions, hearings, trials, conferences and meetings
Summarizing calls, set action items, follow through to closure
Verifying information, locate evidence and exhibits
Managing budgets, billing and invoices
Negotiating rates and contracts for legal services vendors
Maintaining a case management database
Obtaining copies of company and court documents
Requirements
Assists 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 legal 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
Implement, and enforce company policies on eDiscovery
The ideal candidate will be a law graduate with 10+ years’ experience
Strong Disputes experience.
Relevant inhouse exp at an IT services company.
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.
Reach us: If you think that this role will add value to your career, kindly write me an email along with your updated CV on Nishant.sharma@crescendogroup.in
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