Legal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that services are provided on time and updating clients constantly on the progress and costs
  
• Providing legal services in a professional manner and adhering to the professional set of conduct by the Solicitors Regulation Authority
• Developing strategies to match and beat the competition and providing the quality of service that clients require
• Engaging with local communities, locals, and referrers to promote the firm
• Providing correct, honest, and positive judgment at all times in the client’s best interests.
• Assisting Directors in implementing the firm’s visions, plans, and strategies as a whole
• Maintaining the organization's legal files and ensuring that the working practices are in accordance with its policies and regulations
• Conducting their own cases and assisting other employees and partners in negotiating terms
• Improving the Law Firm’s profitability and efficiency using legal practice knowledge.
• Advise solutions for client development strategies, marketing, and productivity.
• Consult on legal and program issues to actively manage risks.
• Analyze problems and develop solutions for meeting the parent company’s objectives.
• Review, draft, and negotiate legal documents.
• Perform legal research and analysis on qualified retirement plans, insurance, and securities.
• Perform legal research and analysis of ERISA and tax laws on retirement plan design, operations, and transactions.
• Review process breakdowns impacting retirement clients, resolve operational issues and determine and suggest proposed action courses.
• Support clients to gather facts on resolving litigation, subpoenas, and complaints, analyze individual disputes, and conduct legal research to execute a course of action.
• Draft regulatory filings with insurance regulators or SEC and review and file prospectuses.
• Monitor staff to budget, record hold orders and retention policies, covenant certification processes, legal inventory, knowledge management, and business continuation.
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments and analyze legally with required execution.

Requirements:

• Minimum academic qualification of a Bachelor's degree in law
• Minimum of 2 years post call to bar work experience 

Note: We are committed to improving diversity in the workspace and work to ensure that our team is supportive of our employees. We strongly encourage applications from women.