Legal Associate with Epiq, Hyderabad

Deadline Open Deadline

Location Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Salary The salary will be discussed with the candidate itself.

Details of the Organization

Epiq, a global technology-enabled services leader to the legal industry and corporations, takes on large-scale, increasingly complex tasks for corporate counsel, law firms, and business professionals with efficiency, clarity, and confidence. Clients rely on Epiq to streamline the administration of legal department and business operations, class action and mass tort, eDiscovery, regulatory, compliance, restructuring, and bankruptcy matters. Epiq subject-matter experts and technologies create efficiency through expertise and deliver confidence to high-performing clients around the world.

Details of the Job/Internship

Epiq is hiring a Legal Associate to join their office in Hyderabad. As a Legal Associate in the Contract Management division of Epiq Global, your role encompasses a range of essential tasks:

Drafting and Vetting: Create, review, and maintain a comprehensive repository of various legal documents, including agreements and notices.
Relevancy and Privilege Review: Participate in reviewing documents to identify items relevant to investigations or dispute consulting matters. Ensure compliance with privilege concepts and perform quality control.
Research and Analysis: Assist with researching technical and industry-specific issues relevant to legal cases.
Report Preparation: Aid in drafting reports and findings, including the preparation of tables, exhibits, and charts.

Role and Responsibilities

Drafting, vetting, and maintaining a repository of various agreements, notices and other legal documents.
Assist in Relevancy, Privilege, Data Privacy Reviews: Review documents to identify items relevant to investigation or dispute consulting matter.
Participate in missed relevancy or privilege concepts and/or perform quality control.
Assist with researching technical and industry-specific issues.
Assist with drafting of reports and findings, including the preparation of tables, exhibits, and charts.

Eligibility

Key Skills and Competencies Required:

Evaluate and perform the review, annotation, abstraction, and summarization of various types of contracts including Non-Disclosure Agreements, License Agreements, Master Service Agreements and Distribution Agreements according to contract templates.
Work on different platforms (CLM tools) and adopt new technologies.
Working knowledge of the Microsoft Office (i.e., Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Vision, and Outlook) and contract management systems
Perform legal research, compliance, due diligence related work.
Escalate queries based on sample documents as and when required.
Report metrics appropriately
Track and report quality for the QC’ed work
Contribute best practices for the work performed.
Maintain confidentiality of all information of organization and client information
Complete work on time along with maintaining the required quality.
Ensure that the daily targets are achieved.
Work as a team member
Work on different platforms (CLM tools) and adopt new technologies.
Ability to read and understand complex contractual languages in lieu of client’s requirements.
High level of positive attitude (‘Can do’ attitude) and follow problem solving approach.
Target Driven along with an eye for details.
Quick learner and adaptive to any process change in a minimal time period.
Flexible to work in rotating shifts.
Good in written and verbal English
Ability to comprehend questions and respond appropriately (writing and verbal)
Logical thinking and good decision-making abilities
Work independently, self-learning attitude, disciplined, sincere and need less supervision
Familiar with the U.S. judicial system, understanding of legal fundamentals, methods, and procedures from the U.S. perspective (Not Applicable to Freshers);
Analytical Skills: Independently solves complex problems;
Decision making: Exercises administrative judgment and assumes responsibility for decisions, consequences, and results having an impact on people, costs, and/or quality of service within the functional area;
Should be a Team Player, open to feedback, and contribute to building positive team spirit;
Ethics: Treats people with respect, keeps commitments, and works with integrity.
Reporting - The candidate will be directly reporting to a manager who will be responsible for his/her growth, performance, feedback, etc. Additionally, during live engagements, he will be reporting to his/her project Team Lead/ Review Manager.