Legal Administrator / Paralegal

About

Description

To deliver efficient and effective administrative support to the South African Legal team in the delivery of legal services across the South African business, whilst acting as an intermediary between the South African Legal team and internal/external contacts.

Responsibilities

• To provide paralegal and legal administrative support to the South African Legal Team
• Manage administration of legal, company secretarial, and compliance matters from inception to resolution while applying sound discretion as to when escalation to South African CoSec Legal Counsel or similar as is necessary and in line with Group Legal SOP
• Communicating with internal clients and assisting South African CoSec and Legal Counsel or similar in the administration of legal matters
• To undertake substantive legal work, as appropriate, such as preparation of first drafts & first legal review of standard agreements for South African CoSec & Legal Counsel or similar
• Preparing and disseminating standard form documents (CDA’s, Addenda, Service Level Agreement) for use by the business and negotiating comments from third parties under the supervision of South African CoSec and Legal Counsel or similar
• Preparing correspondence, meeting minutes, agenda, draft advice and compliance reports under the supervision of CoSec South African Legal Counsel in line with TH Agreed Guidelines for Legal Agreements

Qualifications

• Secretarial, paralegal, or legal qualification
• 3-5 years of experience working as a paralegal or legal assistant in a corporate/commercial law firm or in-house legal department
• Understanding of commercial contracts and legal terminology
• Experience in electronic file management and contracts repository systems would be an advantage
• Advanced PC literacy on all MS Office Suite, Adobe Acrobat
• Verbal and written proficiency in the English language
• Project management & methodical implementation skills
• Administrative and organizational skills
• Electronic database management
• Experience producing and handling electronic file formats, including creating electronic files from data extraction

Application instructions:

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