Lead - Litigation & Disputes - Legal Firm

Lead - Litigation & Disputes

The purpose of this role is to provide legal support to sales / commercial functions, business units and other functions regarding responding to legal notices filing of new court cases and defending the existing cases in different courts of law to protect BEL's business interests.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Filing new court cases, and defending existing cases in various courts, and tribunals after collating, and reviewing the documents received from the concerned bus.

- Working closely with the commercial team, and various business units on a broad range of legal issues requiring legal notices or litigation.

- Vetting the drafts received from the external counsels and finalising the same for filing in courts of law.

- Providing pragmatic and result-oriented advisories to the business heads / Hod's on a wide array of pre-litigation and post-litigation matters.

- Preparing synopsis of cases to help the external counsels understand the matter & briefing with respect to various cases and address all their queries.

- Drafting/Vetting notices, pleadings and communications received through business units from third parties of BEL.

- Holding regular reviews of court cases with various stakeholders and briefing them on their positions & further strategies.

- Remaining updated with the latest developments, and amendments in various laws and rules.