VACANCY | Associate Attorney at UST Contract Services Team: Apply Now!

About the Job

The purpose of the job is to support Legal in the area of commercial transactions and Intellectual Property. Review advise and negotiate issues involving customer contracts. The associate attorney is expected to provide legal services to support one or more specific business units in the organization as assigned by the reporting attorney. Works under supervision.

Eligibility

We are looking for highly motivated and detail-oriented Associate Attorneys to join the UST Contract Services Team. The ideal candidate should have a strong understanding of contract law and be able to effectively redline and review of cross-border software contracts. Responsibilities:

• Redline and review agreements based on organizations’ contracting standards.
• Conduct legal research and drafting. • Maintain and update the organization’s Contracts library. Qualifications
• LL. B degree.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Minimum 1 to 2 years of experience within a law firm or corporate legal department, with primary emphasis on software contract drafting and review.
• Excellent interpersonal writing and oral communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Collaborate across functional teams and foster a collaborative environment
• Able to work with diverse groups work as a team with attorneys and other colleagues and reach consensus
• Able to multi-task effectively prioritize to meet deadlines and work under pressure
• Excellent time management skills and self-motivated
• People skills including good judgment and tact
• Ability to adapt to new technology
• Excellent in Microsoft Suite and Adobe Acrobat Professional
• Require Juris Doctor degree or equivalent
• Require licensed attorney with an active membership of a state bar or equivalent

Responsibilities

1. Responsible for projects assigned regarding the development and negotiation of contracts on behalf of the Company’s business team and other stakeholders.
2. Draft edit and negotiate contracts with customers suppliers and others who desire to contract with the Company obtain feedback on draft agreements from stakeholders and provide consolidated comments to the relevant stakeholders including but not limited to agreements for participation in the Company’s networks for health information messaging and connectivity data use agreements technology licensing agreements joint research projects and contracts with vendors supplying services or equipment to the Company.
3. Provide accurate relevant and timely advice to your employer and other members of staff on a variety of legal topics that relate to the business sector and their products or services
4. Work closely with and provide advice to teams within the Company responsible for the products/services requiring contracts or other documentation for delivery.
5. Responsible for ensuring all relevant facts and legal considerations are assembled assessed and accurate before contracts are presented for execution as it relate to all business transactions.
6. Evaluate and advise appropriate legal courses of action to meet the Company’s and other stakeholders’ needs.
7. Provide accurate relevant and timely advice to your employer and other members of staff on a variety of legal topics that relate to the business sector and their products or services
8. Analyse complex legal issues conduct legal research work and draft summary reports
9. Draft and review legal plans in response to changing needs of the organization’s laws and government policies
10. Direct and coordinate activities of project personnel to ensure the project progresses on schedule to and within the prescribed budget. Draft agreements and corporate resolutions
11. Provide and review responses to RFPs as they come in
12. Perform a variety of tasks as well as special projects as required
13. Communicate with and manage any third-party bodies such as external counsel external procurement personnel or auditors
14. Liaising with senior members of staff.
15. May use some discretion and judgment and may work independently

Measures of Outcomes

1. Adherence to the SLA
2. Number of requests processed per month without escalation
3. Percentage of cases solved/resolved successfully in-house

Outputs Expected

Administrative Duties

1. Proofreading
2. Preparing routing materials
3. Verifying and editing materials

Documentation

1. Draft agreements
2. Draft corporate resolutions

Application Procedure

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