Legal Consultant
Emirates Advocates & Legal ConsultantS
Total years of experience :16 years, 6 Months
Research
• Researching precedents in Law Libraries and using the findings to create a defense and support client cases in court.
• Researching and gathering evidence to back up client cases, and information for case trials.
• Conducting legal research on anti - corruption among civil servants, bankruptcy and family law.
• Researching factual and legal matters during a trial and indexing information during trials.
• Studying police reports, interview transcripts, medical records and other facts to make a case for the plaintiff.
• Keeping up to date with current changes and developments in law by reading law journals and reports.
Scheduling and Planning
• Effective diary management to optimize time spent with clients, court and study time.
• Scheduling appointments to actively manage time.
Administration
• Conducting correspondence - internally within the organization (writing memos, etc.) and externally with clients.
• Preparing arguments to be heard in a trial and questions to ask witnesses.
• Interpreting and explaining the law clearly to both individual and business clients.
• Preparing briefs for all cases - criminal, commercial, civil, employment, real estate and personal.
• Drafting letters, documents and contracts tailored to a clients’ individual needs.
Legal Duties
• Involved in out of court settlements.
• Preparation of legal documents and proofreading.
• Preparation of documents and preparation for trial.
• Preparing legal papers and subpoenas.
Customer Service
• Getting to know clients and developing and maintaining relationships with them.
• Providing accurate, timely and effective legal advice to clients.
Decision Making
• Meeting and interviewing clients to establish the firm's suitability to provide necessary advice and services, based on the firm's specialist services and likely costs.
• Taking a client’s instructions, understand the client and their opponent.
• Advising clients on the law, legal issues relating to their case and their legal rights and obligations.
• Shaping a client's expectations on what can be realistically achieved.
• Advising colleagues on all legal matters, suggesting courses of action.
• Advising businesses on the impact, interpretation and implementation of new policies and legislation.
Practicing
• Interviewing witnesses, defendants, Legal Advisors and clients.
• Appearing before legislative and regulatory bodies or government agencies.
• Presenting evidence in court to support clients in legal proceedings.
• Attending court hearings.
Laws Practiced: Banking & Employment, Real Estate, Civil & Criminal, Arbitration, and Commercial & Corporate Counselling Laws.
Research
• Participating in investigating facts of incidents, violations and interventions assigned.
Scheduling and Planning
• Possess experience in various types of legal cases in numerous jurisdictions and grades, such as Federal and Local Courts.
• Handled a variety of assorted legal work involving Government department including official authorities, public prosecution, police stations and labour cases.
• Managed additional assigned duties - such as authorised attendance, agreement meeting, lease and sale deeds, power of attorney injunction claims, petitions, revision appeals and other pleadings of cassation courts.
• Follow - up with clients (Legal cases, Commercial lawsuits, Labour lawsuits, Opposition cases, Cancellation cases, Infringement cases, unfair competition lawsuits and Appeal actions.
Administration
• Drafting memorandum, agreements and research.
• Implementation of contracts and legal agreements either with companies or clients, and implementation of contracts for debt collection by using the judicial ways.
• Took necessary legal action regarding legal matters and controversial issues.
• Handled accounting relating to clients and case matters.
Legal Duties
• Generating periodic reports with respect to the implemented activities and achievements.
• Coordinated with different companies’ regarding legal issues and inquiries.
Decision Making
• Experience in representing property sales, purchase, lease and mortgages.
• Provided advice to businesses on minimal liability and legal exposure.
• Advised business on adherence to legislation involving data protection.
Laws Practiced: Banking & Employment, Real Estate, Civil & Criminal, Arbitration, and Commercial & Corporate Counselling Laws.
• Issuing Real Estate Data from Registration Departments and Legal Inheritance Limitation.
• Following - up complaints with the clients and all transactions of Finance Departments.
• Drafting various Sales and Rent Contracts and Transactions.
• Notarization within different segments of the Public and Private Sector.
• Typing all kinds of transaction and contracts of the clients.