Legal Officer at CDL Human Resource

Duties and Responsibilities

• Study matters and advice the company on their legal implications
• Prepare business contract documents and review those prepared by suppliers to ensure that the company's interests are protected.
• Liaise with external legal firms to ensure that the company's cases are promptly and efficiently attended to 
• Prepare company witnesses to provide a strong defense for court cases
• Prepare reports on finalized and outstanding cases to the legal Manager for information and direction
• Pursue the company's debtors in accordance with the legal procedures to recover debts
• Take minutes for various management committee meetings and circulate the same to the relevant Managers for action
• Monitor developments in the law and ensure that the company complies with the changes
• Liaise with other legal institutions e.g. AG's chambers, Law Society of Kenya e.t.c for consultations on best practices and resolution of outstanding legal matters
• Provide safe custody of vital company's documents such as, original contracts
• Ensure that company's trademarks are registered, renewed and protected to avoid infringement
• Facilitate legal conveyance of company's documents such as, land title deeds to protect company's assets
• Manage insurance matters in liaison with the insurance officer and ensure they are resolved in the company's best interest

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in law
• Diploma from the Kenya School of Law
• Advocate of High Court of Kenya
• 5 years post admission experience in legal practice
• Good communication skills (both oral & written).
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Excellent presentation and report-writing skills.
• Unquestionable character and integrity.
• Good team player, self-motivated, creative, innovative and focused.