The Legal Associate shall support the effective management of all legal matters as they relate to all facets of the legal function – Litigation, Corporate Commercial transactions, Contracts review, Data Privacy, Ethical Business Program, Intellectual Property, Owned & Leased Property, Legal Advisory, and any other functional projects or assignments.

Responsibilities

• Work with external counsels to manage litigation and its attendant administrative processes
• Hold responsibility for monthly legal reporting.
• Contracts Management
• Hold responsibility for Legal Applications update and management – Bright Flag & Dilitrust
• Retrieve information on all DFM legal issues, files and build into the existing legal function structure
• Provide administrative and legal support for internal investigations
• Ensure the development of service level agreements for service support and delivery.
• Manage legal invoicing and track payments ensuring accuracy and promptness of payment.
• Support regulatory issues management
• Manage Property due diligence process
• Legal correspondence drafting
• Data Privacy Compliance Management
• All such other duties as directed by the Legal Manager

Requirements

• A graduate degree in law (minimum of second class lower).
• Member of the Nigerian Bar Association.
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
• Strong knowledge of corporate commercial practice
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and discretion.
• Highly analytical with a strong attention to detail.
• Great team player to support cohesive operations in the Legal Unit of the group.
• Sound knowledge of Microsoft office applications especially Word, PowerPoint and Excel.