Jr. Associate Lawyer

Job Description

• Provides legal support and assistance to the Corporate Legal Counsel. Leads the team in the absence of Corporate Legal Counsel
• Initiates and prepares the drafting of contracts, legal correspondences, pleadings and legal tools. Brainstorms with Corporate Legal regarding viability of a proposed legal solution.
• Provides the initial legal review of contracts, legal correspondences and legal tools.
• Assists the Corporate Legal Counsel in giving day to day legal advice to internal stakeholders regarding various compliance and simple legal issues.
• Performs initial review of pleadings in relation to regulatory cases.
• Monitors the progress of and coordinates closely with RD team on the development of improvement of IPR; Coordinates closely with IPR consultant on the status of the registration.
• Together with Corporate Legal Counsel, coordinates closely with MPW regarding updates in compliances to ensure company’s alignment with MPW/MPIC.
• Renders housekeeping services – in charge of the preparation of board resolutions, their covering board/AGM minutes, and audit responses/replies.
• Assists the Corporate Legal Counsel in drafting or reviewing corporate policies.
• Assists the Corporate Legal Counsel in brainstorming legal safeguards in consonance with the legal strategies; Primarily undertakes the legal research and initially translates/applies his/her proper interpretation of law and jurisprudence, arguments and case analysis to a case/concern/issue.
• Attends meeting with clients, including board/AGM meetings, as well as conferences with representatives of Government agencies; If necessary, appears with and assists the Corporate Legal Counsel in hearings involving the company.
• Assists legal assistant in the monitoring and coordination with responsible department regarding the filing of applications for the renewal of pertinent company permits to ensure they are timely filed;

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