Associates Advocates

Location: Westlands Nairobi Employment Type: Full Time Job Experience - 2-5 years
Duties/Responsibilities 1. Carrying out the negotiation, drafting and review of commercial contracts and ensuring they are duly executed; 2. Conduct due diligence on conveyancing transactions, prepare agreements for sale, completion documents (where necessary) and ensure proper registration of documents; 3. Draft legal opinions and maintain the database; 4. Conduct legal research on various areas of law as may be assigned by the Partners; 5. Oversee filing and maintenance of intellectual property applications and registrations; 6. Assist with due diligence and other intellectual property issues related to contracts, agreements and other transactional matters; 7. Effect the legal formation of entities including organizational documents and take further action as required by law; 8. Provide legal advice on commercial and corporate transactions; and 9. Ability to prepare security documents and ensure they are properly executed and properly registered. Litigation 10. Participate in initial client interview and obtain all relevant information and documentation; 11. Conduct legal research relating to pleading and motion preparation; 12. Ability to negotiate settlements for clients and draft settlement agreements; 13. Attend and conduct hearings at all levels of the court structure; 14. Draft legal opinions and maintain legal opinion database; 15. Updating clients on their matters on a timely basis;