Deloitte - Manager - Legal - LLB - Reputation & Risk Office

The primary purpose of the role:

- Be an important member of the Reputation and Risk Office (RRO) providing in-house legal support with a focus on handling a variety of legal work including complex contracts both in-country and cross-border, contentious matters, intellectual property rights, employment law matters, property law and others.

- The role requires a strong understanding of law and its practical application, the ability to spot and analyze risks, and to come up with practical workable solutions to help further the organization's professional interests whilst protecting its reputation and helping to manage risks.

Major responsibilities & deliverables :

- Review, drafting and negotiating complex contracts both in-country and cross-border - of various kinds - whether with clients, suppliers and other counterparties that the organization may from time to time enter into.

- Handling contentious matters of various kinds before various forums.

- Providing corporate level support and advice to lawyers who support various functions from a risk analysis point of view.

- Advising on matters relating to a variety of laws such as intellectual property rights, employment law matters, property law and others.

- Analyzing the legal and regulatory requirements and assisting in the drafting of various policies for the organizations.

- Managing legal-related projects of various kinds.

- Develop training material and provide training on legal matters to lawyers and non-lawyers within the organization.

- Helping in implementing systems and processes to improve the functioning of the in-house legal function.

- Generally advising on and providing in-house legal support to the organization.

Skills Required: The resource should have sound technical knowledge of a variety of laws and the practical working of the Indian legal system as well as exposure to cross-border legal and contractual matters. Further, the ideal candidate would have :

- Risk spotting ability - the resource must be able to quickly assess the risk areas and recommend ways of mitigating or managing them.

- Analytical skills - should be able to use judgment, analyze facts and draw logical conclusions

- Effective verbal and written communication skills - should be able to draft high-quality documents.

- Dispute resolution experience important.

Candidate characteristics - Strong ethics and integrity.

- Professional approach.

- Team player.

- Pragmatic and solutions-focused approach.

Location Mumbai

Qualifications required: Bachelor of Law (LLB)

Qualifications (desirable): Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India

Qualifications outside India in another common law country

Experience required, Any Specific Industry / Company exposure :

Experience - Around 7-10 years

- Experience preferably that of providing business support to client facing businesses in Advisory/ Financial Services.