Paralegal
Royal Group
Total years of experience :19 years, 1 Months
• Provide high-level paralegal support to the legal department and office of Legal Head.
• Amend and format a variety of legal documents in both Arabic and English languages.
• Handle all kinds of updation into LAS (Legal Assistant System).
• Liaise with PROs in setting up new companies; Assist in preparing paper works related to concerned govt. departments like municipality, Chamber of Commerce, Waste Management Centre, Fire and Safety and the like.
• Handle renewal of tenancy contract by way of TAWTHEEQ system in coordination with AD Municipality.
• Arrange for the notarization and legalization of corporate documents and powers of attorney and managing the PROs.
• Ensure the licenses and commercial registrations of companies are up to date.
• Record all new requests for reviewing contracts, drafting documents, etc.
• Manage the incoming requests and outgoing response from the legal department.
• Update the legal department's electronic database.
• Provide administrative services to the Lawyers including preparing and drafting internal and external correspondence.
• Assist the Lawyers in preparing legal contracts, leases, MoAs, PoAs, legal forms and templates and other legal documents.
• Provide support, whenever required, to the entire Legal department to accomplish a particular job within the time frame.
• Liaise and correspond with Govt. Departments, Real Estate Regulatory Authority and Arbitration Centers.
• Amend and review legal documents for spelling and mistakes and handle the formatting.
• Translation of documents from Arabic to English and vice versa.
• Handle the entire filing system of legal department.
• Provide secretarial support to the Work Group using Microsoft Word, E-mail, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Create and amend high volume of documents, correspondence and e-mails, to a high degree of accuracy and often to tight deadlines; comparing documents; tracking changes in completed documents
• Liaise with members of other departments to follow up on queries from associates, e.g. travel arrangements, billing information, documents sent for translation, filing, etc.
• Dealing with e-mails during associate's absence from the office and taking appropriate action.
• Provide high-level paralegal support to the legal department and office of General Counsel and Senior Vice President - Legal with an extreme attention to detail.
• Amend and format a variety of legal or administrative documents in both Arabic and English languages.
• Prepare, update and maintain consolidated litigation reports including litigations for Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Jordan, Saudi, Egypt, Canada, UK and Arbitration proceedings.
• Provide administrative services to the Lawyers including preparing and drafting internal and external correspondence and proofreading & Liaise with Local Advocates in regards to court hearings.
• Handle all invoices of external lawyers, process them, coordinate with Finance Department and manage the legal payments.
• Translation of documents, court memos, and related legal documents from Arabic to English and vice versa.
• Coordinate with legal translation office for documents requiring legal translation.
• Handle payments to the court for labor, commercial or property related cases.
• Handle the entire filing system of legal department.
• Provide secretarial support to the Work Group using Microsoft Word, E-mail, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Create and amend high volume of documents, correspondence and e-mails, to a high degree of accuracy and often to tight deadlines; tracking changes in completed documents
• Liaise with members of other departments to follow up on queries from associates, e.g. travel arrangements, billing information, documents sent for translation, filing, etc.
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• Providing administrative support to the Lawyers.
Assisting with legal research and communicating with attorneys, experts, opposing counsel, vendors and other staff.
• Maintaining confidentiality of the firm and Liaising with external parties as and when required.
• Maintaining hard copy and electronic filing system and Preparing and formulating agreement and contract drafts involving the organization such as joint ventures, outsourcing contracts, consultancy agreements and construction contracts.
Preparing responses to correspondence containing routine inquiries;
Maintaining hard copy and electronic filing system
• Researching and making recommendations to the Legal Advisor and Corporate Lawyer in order to advise clients on relevant regulation from government or other bodies.
Arranging conference calls; Scheduling meetings.
o Gathering data and compiling various reports for management;
• Preparing correspondence, reports and other requested material, that may include but is not limited to word processing/ typing of letters, memos, forms, presentations, policies and procedures.
• Performing preliminary work in the preparation of legal opinions.
• Keeping pace with the changes and modifications introduced to the local, regional and international legislations and studying their effect on the organization.
• Prepare correspondence from handwritten notes or drafts such us appointment letters, acknowledgement letters, and memos of a general nature.
Translation
• Written Translation of various documents from Arabic to English and Vice Versa
Accounting
• Preparing invoices of the works done for the clients in coordination with Lawyers and Senior Partner
BGL currently pursuing.