Legal Associate (Senior & Junior) at Rimdinado International Limited

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Rimdinado International was set up on the 1st January, 2013 and registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria on the 2nd March, 2013 and currently in Abuja.

Our business history range from providing simple solutions for Small and Medium Scale organizations to major clients that require overhauling operations, business restrategizing and alignment of their people towards new realities. We guarantee that our clients and partners alike enjoy rapid growth, outstanding results and improved staff performance and compliance. We have exceeded our clients expectations in delivery of solutions required by clients like KPR Resort, Dantata and Sawoe, Vestates Nigeria and UNICEF Nigeria.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Legal Associate (Senior & Junior)

Location: Abuja (FCT)
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Management of the day-to-day activities of the Organisations
• Strategic oversite to all business support functions
• Plan, Coordinate, Direct and Responsible for high level leadership in area of Operations management, business process & structure, client and business development, client and stakeholders management, talent management, customer relations/engagement, finance & internal control.
• Act as Advisor to Partnership, providing subject matter input into strategy formulation and implementation.
• Sets and monitor performance and operational metrics for the Firm to increase organisational efficiency.
• Overall Management of Assignment of different issues
• Advising on day-to-day business affairs and activities of Organisations
• Generate business opportunities for the organisation.
• Analyse firms’ strategy and
• Innovate business development initiatives.
• Review and revise project deliverable developed by team members to maintain high standard of professional service.
• Build and maintain productive working relationships with clients.
• Working with Start-Ups and MSMEs on compliance and any other business Governance issues
• Lead, Motivate and Manage team of Lawyers.
• Coach, Support and provide guidance and on-the-job trainings to Associates.
• Advising clients on diverse subject matters and a broad range of Law
• Providing legal advice and measures to avoid disputes to clients.
• Advise clients on how to protect their interests in the event of disputes.
• Drafting Legal Instruments
• Corporate Governance for clients
• Provide Company Secretariat Services to clients.
• Spearhead and manage projects to support the clients in ensuring law compliance or dealing with legal issues encountered during business.
• Undertake other project and firm development works as required.

Legal Communication Skills:

• Oral Communication:
  • Demonstrates excellent oral and spoken communication skills.
  • Conveys information to people at different levels and roles clearly, simply and effectively.
• Presentations and Public Speaking:
  • Delivers presentations and public speeches within the firm and on behalf of the firm
• Writing Skills:
  • Demonstrates excellent written communication skills.
  • Clearly and logically presents subject matter in a well thought out, organized, clear and succinct manner that communicates the (legal) content and opinions accurately.
• Publications:
  • Writes or prepares well researched legal articles, conference papers, presentations or similar items for publication or presentation within and outside the organization.

Working relationship:
The Senior Legal Associate will:

• Be accountable to the Principal Partner
• Be directly responsible for other Junior Associates and Staff
• Enforce Company Policies
• Manage Company Operations
• Manage Stakeholders

Qualifications

• Professional qualifications i.e., LLB, BL, LLM
• Enthusiasm for working with young organizations/start-ups.
• Excellent organizational skills and demonstrated ability to create and implement new systems that keep the companies running smoothly, while also accounting for differing work styles and remote locations of staff.
• Ability to handle confidential matters.
• Computer skills is essential.
• Ability to multitask and work under pressure
• Experience in co-ordinating budgeting processes and managing budgets and monitoring and supervising administrative processes
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated capacity to think strategically with expertise in complex problem solving, decision making and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to work with little supervision and able to meet deadlines comfortably.
• Flexibility, adaptability, and willingness to take on a wide range of tasks.

Competencies:
Entrepreneurial Orientation:

• Able to look for and seize profitable business opportunities.
• Willing to take calculated risks to achieve business goals of the Firm.
• Understands the Firm's competitive advantages in different areas and can leverage existing business and personal relationships and networks to develop new briefs and secure new transaction opportunities in those areas.
• Can protect a brief using relationships.

Analytical Thinking:

• Able to tackle business challenges and come up with solutions by using a logical, systematic, and sequential approach.
• Able to effectively and logically apply the Law to resolve issues and provide solutions to legal maters.
• Quickly identifies the central or underlying issues in complex situations. Uses this insight to support quick and accurate decision-making.
• Able to make hard decisions in a timely manner.
• Easily identifies patterns and trends and their implications.

Commercial Acumen:

• Understands the commercial nature of business in general and how law firms operate profitably.
• Knowledgeable about current affairs and understands the key industry sectors the Firm supports, as well as the relevant stakeholders, issues, opportunities, and priorities.
• Understands the wider impact of transactions on the long-term strategy of the Firm and building relationships with clients.
• Can structure transactions to balance multiple client interests with long term Firm profitability and sustainability goals.
• Understands how to negotiate and structure transactions to influence policy, practices, and trends beyond the Firm and in the wider industry and economy.

Communication Skills:

• Able to interpret complex, technical legal issues into comprehensible advice which is practical and based on a thorough understanding of the reality of the current situation.
• Can communicate effectively with business colleagues and other stakeholders at different levels using the appropriate level of detail and language.
• Persuasive presenter to small and large audiences.
• Self-aware and adapts communication style to influence the situation
• and achieve the desired outcome.
• Able to manage, resolve or diffuse difficult and/or sensitive situations
• with tact and professionalism.

Continuous Learning:

• Has an inquisitive mind and a strong desire for learning and continuous improvement.
• Learns from both successes and mistakes.
• Demonstrate desire not just to learn but also the teach.
• Uses engagement opportunities as teaching moments and makes self available for assisting others in professional development.
• Shares knowledge through presentations, publications, and other platforms.

Discipline:

• Able to stick to the course, especially in the face of challenges.
• Consistent,
• Reliable and uses a variety of ways to get things done.
• Stands up for what s/he believes to be the right option.
• Goes back a second or third time or however many times are needed to secure agreement or approval.

Innovative Thinking:

• Able to develop, sponsor or support the introduction of new and improved methods, services, procedures, or techniques that help advance the goals of the Firm.
• Regularly comes up with creative but practical solutions to effectively address the requirements from multiple parties in complex transactions.

Integrity:

• Understanding of fiduciary responsibility and a demonstrated ability to be perceived as reliable, responsible, and trustworthy.
• Is honest and forthright with people.
• Has the courage and conviction to speak with honesty and candor regardless of the situation or stakeholders.
• Conveys a command and expertise of relevant facts and information that engenders acceptability and agreement.

Interpersonal Skills:

• Treating colleagues, Clients, and vendors as respected and critical partners for success.
• Having a range of interpersonal skills and approaches and knowing when to use what with whom.
• Emotionally intelligent - understands self and others and how to effectively motivate and get the best out of self and others.
• Able to work well on diverse teams and gains consensus in situations with multiple perspectives. "Carries everyone along".

Leadership:

• Demonstrated leadership skills and abilities that support the firm's vision and strategy and contribute to superior performance of the organization.
• Mentors and trains junior team-members and encourages/participates in continuing education classes.

MS Office:

• Ability to adequately use Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint assess data and present information in a professional and compelling manner
• Consistently performs at intermediate level e.g. complex calculations and graphs in MS Excel; table of contents and tracked changes in MS Word; shapes/graphics and design templates in MS PowerPoint; with no oversight and is able to teach others

Presentation Skills:

• Ability to confidently deliver an engaging message to a group of people which achieves the objectives.
• Able to develop engaging presentations with accurate and relevant content that is presented in a concise and user-friendly manner.
• Experience making effective presentations externally or representing the Firm in court (arguing cases) professionally and confidently.

Time Management:

• Ability to effectively manage personal time and schedule, and to carefully prepare for discussions, meetings and reviews.
• Understand the critical path for complicated tasks involving multiple internal parties and can effectively manage cross-functional and inter-departmental resources to deliver quality work in a timely manner.
• Good Project Management skills.

Change Management:

• Legal Drafting
• Ability to draft legal documents and infuse wording that is favourable to the Client and/or Firm's position.
• Able to develop legal documents and draft formal communications to external parties, for complex transactions and complex scenarios like previous work experiences.

Contract Management:

• Negotiate, draft, analyze, review and manage contracts that maximize operational and financial performance of the organization, while reducing financial risk
• Has experience negotiating, drafting, analyzing, reviewing and managing contracts that maximize benefits to the organization and reduce financial risk while ensuring contractual obligations are met when due with no oversight.

Stakeholder Management:

• Form, monitor and maintain relationships with individuals or groups that can affect or be affected by one's work.
• Consistently demonstrate experience with stakeholder mapping, relationship building and influencing to effectively manage key stakeholders with no oversight.

Legal Administration / Document Management:

• Research legal matters and ensure adequate legal record-keeping and filing.
• Has experience researching legal matters and providing appropriate solutions to legal questions.
• Maintaining structured and secure legal record-keeping, with no oversight
• Project Management
• Risk & Conflict Management
• Client Management
• Ability to manage and build effective relationships with Clients.
• Monitors market developments and industry journals/publications/trends/news/etc
• Provides clients with insights on impact.
• Tech Savvy

Commercial Acumen:

• Billing & Invoicing
  • Accurately invoices Clients, monitors matters effectively and updates Supervisor and/or Clients on renewals, annuities, and other payments due, in a timely manner.
• Collections & Receivables
  • Follows up with Clients on receivables in a timely manner and works effectively with Finance to ensure Collections.
• Managerial Skills
  • Manages people, resources, and office to achieve the organizational goals of the firm.
• Business Development
  • Generates new briefs and instructions from both existing and new Clients and participates in Business Development initiatives.

Client Management:
Records and Filing:

• Maintains effective and orderly records and keeps proper files for all matters.
• Keeps an ordered and structured workspace.
• Monitoring
• Monitors market developments and industry journals/publications/trends/news/etc and provides clients with insights on impact.

Meeting Coordination:

• Coordinates meetings with existing and prospective clients.
• Sets and drives meeting agenda to meet client objectives.
• Understands implications of decisions made, relevant next steps in the process and relevant actions.
• Handling Instructions
• Interfaces confidently with clients regarding client instructions.
• Manages relationships with clients to ensure effective client care and customer satisfaction.

Legal Communication Skills:
Oral Communication:

• Demonstrates excellent oral and spoken communication skills.
• Conveys information to people at different levels and roles clearly, simply and effectively.
• Presentations and Public Speaking
• Delivers presentations and public speeches within the firm and on behalf of the firm

Writing Skills:

• Demonstrates excellent written communication skills.
• Clearly and logically presents subject matter in a well thought out, organized, clear and succinct manner that communicates the (legal) content and opinions accurately.

Publications:

• Writes or prepares well researched legal articles, conference papers, presentations or similar items for publication or presentation within and outside the organization.

Knowledge & Application of Corporate & Commercial Law @ Advance Proficiency Level:
Contracts:

• Understands the use of contracts and when they apply.
• Effectively applies understanding of the implications of standard contract terms and their variations to draft basic contracts that protect clients.

Advisory- Registration:

• Effectively advises and assists clients with the legal and regulatory requirements for doing business in Nigeria, including registration under Parts A-C, choosing the optimal form of business organisation suitable for the client's purpose,
• obtaining applicable regulatory permits,
• post incorporation obligations and taxation of companies and foreign workers.

Advisory- CAMA:

• Effectively advises clients on compliance with the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA), including statutory notice periods for meetings and corporate actions.

Regulatory Matters:

• Understands the industry related regulatory matters for client industries.
• Effectively applies knowledge of the regulatory issues, rules/guidelines, resolutions, agency processes and operations to support clients’ briefs. Examples include for NAFDAC, NERC, etc.

Advisory -Shareholding:

• Effectively advises clients on appropriate shareholding structure, classification and issuance of shares, rights of shareholders and shareholders agreements in line with the client's business strategy and objectives.

Advisory – Corporate Governance:

• Effectively advises clients on corporate governance requirements, including composition of the Board of Directors, appointments / removals / remuneration of Directors, Board Committees, and other governance-related regulatory requirements.

Tax:

• Understands the Corporate Tax regime and how it applies to the different company structures, including Tax computations and filings.
• Effectively applies this knowledge to assist clients in compliance and business optimization.

Document Drafting:

• Drafts accurate and thorough corporate resolutions, corporate records, articles of association, shareholder agreements and corporate documentation.

Research:

• Conducts effective and timely research.
• Able to quickly identify relevant sources, sort through voluminous data to pull out critical information and present findings in an organized and analytical manner.

Bankruptcy:

• Understands the bankruptcy process, including the steps, requirements, and implications at each stage.

Compliance:

• Understands the Anti-Bribery and Corruption (and similar) Laws, and can identify potential issues, advise clients, and provide insight on potential mitigating strategies.

Evidence:

• Understands the practicability of the law with regards to evidence and effectively applies this to client briefs and transactions.

Due Diligence:

• Effectively conducts due diligence and other investigations; and manages the process.
• Identifies key corporate documents and material transactions and generates thorough and complete reports that identify and clearly communicate all elements of the investigation.

Commercial & Corporate:

• Demonstrates knowledge of corporate and contract law, partnership, and regulatory obligations such as statutory returns, filings, licensing, taxes, and property rights and applies these effectively in client advisory or transactions.

Knowledge & Application of Real Estate & Construction Law @ Advance Proficiency Level:
Due Diligence:

• Effectively conducts Searches and Due Diligence

Transaction Flow:

• Analyzes Real Estate Transactions and develops an accurate and effective transaction flow.

Document Preparation:

• Prepares relevant land transaction documents - leases, mortgages, tenancies, deeds of assignment, development leases, etc.

Document Perfection:

• Carries out Perfection of Instruments - leases, mortgages, deeds of assignments, tenancies, development leases, etc.

Contentious Real Estate:

• Effectively handles contentious Real Estate litigation.
• Knowledge & Application of Trust & Succession Planning Law @ Advanced Proficiency Level

Advising:

• Effectively advises clients on wills and trusts

Preparation:

• Prepares wills and trusts instruments

Probate Handling:

• Effectively handles Probate Registry procedures

Contentious Probate:

• Effectively handles contentious probate matters
• Knowledge & Application of Real Estate & Construction Law @ Advance Proficiency Level

 

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the job title as the subject of the mail.

Application Deadline  20 August, 2024.

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