Senior Corporate Counsel - Disputes & Litigation - BFSI/BPO

Job opportunity for working professionals having at least 9 years of experience in Disputes Resolution as well as Litigation Management working on Analyzing case files, contracts, documentary evidence, and carry out litigation strategies.

Location: Delhi NCR/Bangalore

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Responding to dispute and pre-dispute demand letters

- Counseling business and stakeholders on legal dispute best-practices

- Analyzing case files, contracts, documentary evidence, and carry out litigation strategy

- Conducting interviews, gather documents and electronic records

- Coordinating and scheduling depositions, hearings, trials, conferences and meetings

- Summarizing calls, set action items, follow through to closure

- Verifying information, locate evidence and exhibits

- Managing budgets, billing and invoices

- Negotiating rates and contracts for legal services vendors

- Maintaining a case management database

- Obtaining copies of company and court documents

Requirements:

- Assists 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

- The ideal candidate will be a law graduate with 10+ years' experience

- Strong Disputes experience.

- Relevant inhouse exp at an IT services company.

- 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.