Legal Jobs: Legal Counsel – Disputes & Litigation, Bengaluru, India

• Respond to dispute and pre-dispute demand letters
• Counsel business and stakeholders on legal dispute best-practices
• Analyze case files, contracts, documentary evidence, and carry out litigation strategy
• Conducting interviews, gather documents and electronic records

• Coordinate and schedule depositions, hearings, trials, conferences and meetings
• Summarize calls, set action items, follow through to closure
• Verify information, locate evidence and exhibits
• Manage budgets, billing and invoices
• Negotiate rates and contracts for legal services vendors

• Maintain a case management database
• Obtain copies of company and court documents

Roles & Responsibilities:

Role Demands:

• Assist in all facets of litigation, including pre-disputes, fact investigation, drafting legal responses, responding to subpoenas and other discovery requests, preparing witnesses for testimony, and negotiating and drafting settlements

• Perform legal work in-house whenever possible 
• Interact with outside counsel, including, budgets and invoices, compliance with outside counsel guidelines, and work product
• Draft succinct, practical legal advice
• Identify, review, analyze, manage and resolve pre-disputes 
• Implement, and enforce company policies on eDiscovery

Qualifications:Experience and skill set required:

• The ideal candidate will be a law graduate with 5-8 years’ experience
• At least three years Disputes experience.  
• At least three years in-house at an IT services company.  

• US law or Canadian law experience is a bonus.  
• The Legal Counsel will be part of the US Geo Legal team and be expected to deal with a variety of matters. This role would suit a detail oriented professional with good organizational skills and excellent English writing and oral communication skills who works well with a very diverse range of functions and is comfortable with uncertainty.
• Very strong people skills.
• Able to work independently 
• Law graduate.  LLM from US or Canada is a bonus.