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  • Posted: Oct 26, 2021
    Deadline: Nov 1, 2021
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    Eden Solutions & Resources Ltd is a human resource management company that provides its client with best practice business management solutions. Registered in 2002 in Nigeria, and managed by a competent team of professionals. Eden Solutions & Resources was initially set up, primarily as a recruitment agency but today it has evolved into company of...
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    Senior Lawyer

    Role:

    The Senior Lawyer will provide high quality, targeted and accessible legal advice across a range of practice areas and will work as a valued business partner with colleagues across The law firm in order to secure and deliver effective solutions to legal issues. The Senior Lawyer will need to be highly experienced and technically proficient in their areas of legal specialism and maybe the senior in-house technical expert for a specific practice discipline. They will be expected to work with a high degree of autonomy on complex legal matters. The Senior Lawyer will generally lead and manage their own portfolio of matters but they will also work collegiately with other Senior Lawyers, the Associate Directors (Legal) or the Director of Legal on larger legal projects, particularly those which require input from multiple legal specialisms. Senior Lawyers will also supervise the work of the Legal Advisors.

    The Senior Lawyer will be expected to provide legal advice that is placed within the wider strategic context and as such will be expected to develop and maintain a broad knowledge of The law firm’s business areas, to develop strong working relationships with colleagues at all levels across the business and to be able to be both influential and persuasive in securing high levels of legal compliance whilst supporting the effective delivery of The law firm’s strategic objectives.

    Proactively identify legal issues at the earliest opportunity and develop and implement strategies to address them.

    Duties:

    • Use a range of persuasion and influencing skills to secure strategic outcomes that are compliant with the law.
    • Use high-level legal competencies to develop and implement innovative solutions to legal problems.
    • Maintain a high degree of technical competency in one or more of the legal specialisms needed by The law firm.
    • Help to support and train The law firm staff to enable them to understand the legal context for The law firm’s work, raise awareness of legal issues, develop The law firm staff’s legal acumen, and support and enable staff to make the best use of legal advice.
    • Commission and manage the provision of external legal advice, ensuring that externally commissioned lawyers are provided with all necessary information to enable them to provide advice that is accurate, targeted and which represents the best value for money.
    • Communicate externally commissioned legal advice to The law firm colleagues in a way which maximizes their ability to understand and apply it appropriately
    • Contribute to the ongoing development of the practice and procedures of the Legal team.
    • Support the development and delivery of a coherent approach to meeting The law firm’s legal resource requirements alongside the wider legal team
    • Leading by example as a role model for The law firm’s values and professional standards.
    • Driving the delivery of business and corporate plans for your own areas of responsibility.
    • Driving continuous improvement within your own areas of responsibility.
    • Taking a proactive approach to risk management, ensuring risks and issues are identified, addressed and reported and, where appropriate, escalated.
    •  Managing individuals or teams through line management and/or matrix management arrangements as required, ensuring underperformance is managed and adequate resourcing is planned to meet objectives.
    •  Managing delegated resources (e.g. budgets, equipment and contracts) as appropriate, to ensure value for money.
    • Being fully aware of and actively complying with The law firm's policies and procedures relevant to your own responsibilities and to corporate policies and procedures including equality, sustainability and the environment, health and safety and data protection.
    • Performing any other reasonable duties as directed by line management.

    Requirements:

    • Must possess LLB, LLM [Masters] degree from a reputable University.
    • Must have a minimum of 12 years, Post – Bar Experience and 80% of this must be commercial law practice in the Private Sector.

    Apply by:

    By PDF format, Applicants from any part if the country can send in their applications along with CVS.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: edennew2002@gmail.com using the position as subject of email.

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