Being a Legal Advisor comes with plenty of challenges. Every field of law is sprawling and complex, but you’ll be expected to be a generalist and expert in most of them. People will come to you with questions whether you are in an expert in that area of law or not. Another challenge is dealing with the pressure of making decisions and giving advice that could have serious implications for the company.

For skills, negotiation and communication are two important soft skills legal advisors must employ daily. In a negotiation, you need to know how to be tough, but fair. You need to be well prepared, and ready to quickly handle unanticipated counter-proposals. Communicating means being able to describe legal risks and implications clearly, and understanding what the business wants and accurately reflecting that in a contract.

Great lawyers typically have a passion for a particular legal speciality or practice area, and master excellence as an expert, which fosters a high level of commitment to their work.

• Good communication skills
• Judgement
• Analytical skills
• Research skills
• People skills
• Perseverance
• Creativity

• Reviewing and creating contracts, agreements and other legal documents
• Negotiating in-house and outside contracts
• Analyzing corporate policies and practices for adherence to laws and regulations
• Applying knowledge of employment laws to resolve conflicts and ensure compliance

• Sourcing
• Screening
• NDA
• First review
• Due diligence
• Compliance due diligence
• Legal structuring
• Binding documentation, completion & closing
• Anti-trust filing/merger control clearance
• Post M&A integration
• Capital market compliance

Although we schedule each initial consultation for one hour, your actual appointment may last more or less than one hour. It depends on the complexity of your situation and how much information you were able to have organized before your initial consultation with an attorney.

The job may not be for the faint of heart. You might be the most hated person in the company, because you’ll have to tell people that they can’t do something, or tell them things that they don’t want to hear.

 

• Global Mobility

  managing the growing complexity of an internationally mobile workforce

• Individual Employment Law

  from hiring, employment contracts, handbooks and policies, to termination

• Contingent Workforce

  from establishing the workforce strategy to drafting the appropriate context, clauses and policies

• Workforce Transformation

  from consultation to down- or right-sizing procedures

• Compensation & Benefits

  from global stock plans to corporate governance and regulation, including CEO pay ratios, gender pay-gap reporting, and compliance with minimum wage requirements

Outsourcing legal service proves cost-effectively beneficial to the organization. It can lead to huge cost saving, since hiring qualified personnel and investing money and time in training them can turn out to be quite costly. But when you choose to outsource these services you need not spend a single penny on the employee’s training.

 

• Business Integrity and Financial Crime
• Antitrust, Competition, and Trade
• Sanctions
• Financial Services Regulation and Investigations Regulation
• Insurance
• Public law

• Requests for legal advice regarding foreign investment matters
• The incorporation of corporations and companies in their various forms and characteristics
• Corporate record maintenance and legal bookkeeping
• The drafting and negotiation of NDAs, as well as confidentiality and settlement agreements
• The review, negotiation, and drafting of all types of commercial agreements
• The drafting of confidentiality, anti-corruption, and privacy corporate policies