Thomson Reuters/New York, NY
Title: Corporate Attorney- Pangea3
ID: PRO00004308
Description
Corporate Attorney- Pangea3
Pangea3 is the global leader in legal outsourcing services-recognized in 2009 as LPO of the Year by the India Business Law Journal and as a #1 LPO in the Black Book of Outsourcing, recipient of the Excellence in Outsourcing award from Frost & Sullivan, and recognized as a best managed company by Inc. Magazine. We are a high-growth, fast paced, exciting group of lawyers, engineers, and business professionals working together to achieve excellence as a globally recognized legal services provider in the newest frontier of professional services outsourcing from India. We are revolutionizing the way lawyers around the world practice law and we are having a tremendously fun time doing it. This is an excellent opportunity for a dynamic and seasoned commercial lawyer to work with the global leadership team and head the delivery of corporate legal services to General Counsel and their legal departments of US and Europe based Fortune 500 companies and Wall Street investment banking clients.
This AVP/VP Corporate Legal Services, will be responsible for the following:
* Direct and manage within our India facilities client engagements involving contract drafting, contract summarizations/abstractions and contract management and M&A due diligence.
* Teach junior corporate lawyers industry specific terms of art, business practices, and sophisticated contract drafting skills.
* Ensure that all work product generated by the teams are client ready and meets highest U.S. and international standards.
* Ensure that the team managers lead multiple projects simultaneously while meeting stringent turn-around time expectations and billable hour limitations.
* Support business development activities, including participating in client phone calls and meetings.
* Participate in the budgeting and line of business profitability targets and analysis
* Compliance and leadership of the employee appraisal program for all department team members.
Qualifications
Candidate Profile:
Ideal candidates for this position should have a JD/L.L.B., a western flair, and should demonstrate the following:
* Expertise and experience in servicing global clients in private law firms or within the scope of a legal department of a large corporate entity.
* High degree of commercial acumen and flexibility when approaching challenges and place high priority on teamwork.
* Solid experience and a demonstrable acumen to communicate with and successfully manage teams.
* Ability to teach and review work of junior and senior lawyers
* A desire and level of enjoyment in rolling up your sleeves and getting deep into technical drafting whether to coach junior team members and guide them in climbing up the value chain or to pick up the slack in the event of a junior team member's need for support while at the same time providing an overall senior level of leadership and department management.
Competencies:
* Commercial contract drafting expertise across multiple industries and business transactions.
* Self-starter with a keen desire to grow the business line in terms of quality, scope, and size-rather than purely managing what exists.
* Excellent teaching and coaching skills.
* Self-starter with a keen desire to succeed and contribute to the business.
* Proficient with MS Word and comfort utilizing IT systems and software programs relating to project management, time and billing, and other Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) related modules.
* Strong verbal and written communication skills with serious attention to detail.
* Outgoing, interactive, collaborative personality.
Qualifications:
* JD/L.L.B.
Experience:
* Seasoned attorney with overall 10 - 20 years of experience, with at least 5 years of experience in a senior management role with global exposure.
Remuneration:
* Compensation includes equity, competitive benefits and bonus
Other Requirement:
* This is a Mumbai or Delhi based position. Candidates from outside Mumbai or Delhi must be prepared to relocate to Mumbai or Delhi for this position.
At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one -collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 50,000 colleagues in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
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Primary Location US-NY-New York
Other Locations US-District of Columbia, India-Mumbai-Mumbai, India, India-Delhi
Organization Legal Global Solutions
Schedule Full-time
Job Type Standard
Shift Day Job
Travel Yes, 10% of the time
Nearest Major Market: Manhattan
Nearest Secondary Market: New York City
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