Job Description
Job Title: Legal Assistant
Reports to: Senior Legal Counsel
Function: Legal
Location: Knowsley
Job Purpose: To provide wide-ranging support to the group’s legal department
Role and Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will become an integral member of the in-house legal team providing general assistance across a range of matters.
Under the support and direction of the Senior Legal Counsel and the Legal Counsel the Legal Assistant will also work with and provide support to the sales team, the commercial team and the projects team.
Specific duties include those listed below:
1. Reviewing and drafting non-disclosure agreements.
2. Managing live non-disclosure agreements - tracking their expiry and arranging for compliance with any relevant obligations e.g. return of documentation.
3. Reviewing and reporting internally on the terms of proposed customer contracts by reference to an agreed risk matrix.
4. Arranging for execution of customer contracts, ensuring that all processes with regard to contract formation, approval levels and signature are adhered to.
5. Assisting with the agreement of sub-contract terms, by reference to an agreed risk matrix.
6. Compiling sub-contracts and arranging for their execution.
7. Undertaking directed legal resea...