Assistant Manager - Abstraction

COMPANY PROFILE:

It is a global leader in legal outsourcing services. Its awards and industry recognition include:

- Recognized as LPO of the Year for 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 by the India Business Law Journal

- Recognized as Best Legal Process Outsourcing Provider 2011 & 2012 by the New York Law Journal

- Awarded LPO of the Year by India Business Law Journal for the last three years in a row (2009-2011)

- #1 LPO in the Black Book of Outsourcing

- Recipient of Excellence in Outsourcing award from Frost & Sullivan; and

- Recognized as the best managed company by Inc. Magazine

We are a high-growth, fast-paced, exciting group of lawyers, engineers, and business professionals working together to achieve excellence as a globally recognized legal services provider in the newest frontier of professional services outsourcing from India.

It provides contract drafting and management, corporate governance and due diligence, corporate secretarial and compliance risk management services, document review, legal research, business and competitive intelligence services, litigation support services, intellectual property and patent litigation services to leading American and European multinational companies.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

- Performs quality checks and audits on contract abstraction projects;

- Creates reference documents with minimal senior personnel review; language/communication skills enable effective escalation and ability to clarify language in documents and contextual meaning and editing on some occasions; participates and contributes on client calls.

- Delivers relevant reports to senior personnel consistent and timely fashion. Completes 80% of performance reviews and client invoices on time.

- Effective on the floor in terms of sharing learning/insights with peers/juniors/seniors.

- Prompt to spot/address/escalate issues that aren’t substantive issues (e.g. a workflow problem or suggestion; substantive issues covered in (1))

- Effectively communicate with counsel or the client with respect to instruction changes, suggestions for changes, and seeking/interpreting guidance.

- Can “set up” a project – e.g. set up P3 process codes with a vendor; coordinate with the same for usernames/passwords/access to data; create projects/engagements on Agility – with no oversight or reminders.

- General knowledge of contract management platforms, including managing assignments, workflow (including the ability to suggest changes to workflow). Individuals who are equally proficient in a greater number of platforms should be rated more highly than those whose knowledge is limited to particular platforms.

- Maximizes reporting/tracking ability.

CANDIDATE PROFILE:

- Contributes to development and preparation of project specific training programs and has the ability to present project specific basic training sessions.

- Good Analytical skills

- Good written communication

- Attention to detail

- Knowledge of working on different platforms.

QUALIFICATION:

- Must have: Law degree

- Desirable: LL.M.