Legal Manager

A client of ours specialising in the Finance and Corporate sector is looking to onboard a Legal Manager to join their team of professionals:

Duties:

• Act as a key point of contact within the firm for the client. 
• Take full responsibility for project delivery on Clients’ portfolios and manage a portfolio of clients
• Review, approve and draft agreements and other legal documents to ensure that these comply with all statutory or legal requirements.
• Ensure assignments are completed within agreed budgets, keep clients/partners informed of overruns and plan staff assignments to give an appropriate spread of experience
• Providing legal advisory and interpretation to the management to ensure compliance with existing legal and regulatory requirements.
• Preparing legal opinions and advising the management on general issues that may arise from time to time, such as internal policies and procedures.
• Liaise with other departments within the Firm to carry out legal engagements, assessments or opinions, in relation to specific areas of business.
• Review any work carried out by junior members and provide the necessary mentorship for their professional development.
• Cooperate and coordinate as necessary with other members of the Legal department.
• Must be able to recognise business development opportunities and inform and work with the Partners/CEO and the client to develop these when they arise
• Support further growth and development of the Legal function (this may include the design of new service offerings, following up on trends and sector evolutions and engaging in networking activities).
• Participate in bids/proposals for new work as well as conferences and events, locally and overseas, to further the objectives of the Employer.
• Ensure that the firm’s quality control procedures are adhered to including second partner review
• Identify risk and technical matters, as well as selling opportunities, to the Partners, whilst exercising judgement within agreed parameters
• Must provide overall support to Partner/CEO on client matters and assist the Partner/CEO in the management of the group, this will include support at times for the recruitment and management of staff
• Work as part of the management team with other managers within the business group, and provide support to the rest of the Legal team

Requirements

• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Maltese

Education and Experience

• Must ba a fully qualifed and warranted lawyer

Job Reference: IS455