Senior Associate

**Commercial Attorney - Partnership opportunity**

**Rneg Per Month + Commission + Bonuses**

**Company**

This represents a fantastic opportunity to join a medium sized law firm as a Commercial Attorney where you will be taking on a senior role within the firm. The firm's Principal is an extremely astute Commercial Attorney with extensive experience and multiple business interests. You would gain exposure to complex commercial transactions and M&A/due diligence assignments.
There are opportunities for a Salaried Partnership or Directorship over time.

**Purpose**

The Commercial Attorney will work on behalf of multiple clients and matters and in commercial and litigation cases, will direct and support the driving of such matters with the assigned Advocate and support staff. The incumbent will handle a wide range of complex legal matters and projects and will ensure that clients receive expert legal and business advice and services.

In addition, this role involves taking responsibility for ensuring that work is completed effectively and efficiently and that the team is managed and mentored in order to deliver in-line with client requirements and deadlines.

**Responsibilities**

**Financial Management**
- Capture fee earners’ fees on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis
- Create and send pro-formas, invoices and statements to clients if needed
- Run reports on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis
- With the support and guidance for the bookkeeper, ensure that invoices and statements are posted
- Under the direct supervision of the bookkeeper, timeous follow up on late payments from clients in a very professional manner

**Operational**
- Prepare and process correspondence, legal documents and papers, and court forms (including summons, pleadings, appeals, motions, briefs, pre-trial agreements, discovery documents and subpoenas)
- Perform client presentations
- Perform legal research and examine national, international and local laws to identify any rules the clients must follow or conflicts that might arise
- Collect information such as employment, medical, and other records for FICA processing and other purposes
- Consult and correspond with Firm Principle, clients, colleagues, associates and other stakeholders
- Analyse legal issue, situations and determine the probable outcomes of cases, using knowledge of legal precedents
- Examine legal data to determine advisability
- Advise clients concerning business transactions, liability, prosecuting or defending lawsuits, or legal rights and obligations
- Prepare and provide commercial legal advice and services
- Evaluate findings and develop strategies and arguments in preparation for presentation or summarization of cases
- Guide clients and ensure compliance with rules and regulations
- Conduct and manage dispute and litigation support
- Represent clients in legal proceedings (administrative boards, court trials etc)
- Support the Principal Attorney in all corporate and other legal processes (e.g. intellectual property, mergers & acquisitions, financial/securities offerings, compliance issues, transactions, agreements, lawsuits, patents)
- Structure, review, edit, draft, and administer a wide range of legal documents, agreements, and reports, company/commercial paperwork, contracts/agreements, and business reports/documents
- Support the Principal Attorney in negotiating and facilitating business deals from a legal perspective
- Collaborate with other law firms, advocates, clients and/or government agencies
- Research, anticipate and guard clients against legal risks
- Develop internal and external company policies and procedures when the need arises

**Administration**
- Schedule site inspections, court cases, hearings and attorney/client meetings
- Keep records up to date and maintaining complex docket systems to track the myriad of legal filing deadlines; index and update pleadings and discovery binders
- Manage calendars and organising diaries, interaction with both internal and external clients as well as consultants and co-ordinate, schedule and manage a variety of meetings
- Communicate and handle incoming and outgoing electronic communications on behalf of the Principle Attorney
- Organize and maintain law libraries, documents, and case files

**Business Development, Sales and Marketing**
- Attend internal business meetings when required
- Assist with the revising of current, and development of new procedures, precedents and related ways of enhancing the provision of legal support
- Contribute ideas, content and feedback to the business development, sales and marketing efforts of the firm
- Provide input and/ or compile proposals
- Assist the Principal Attorney with the mapping and plotting of all internal and external legal and business processes

**Learning & Development**
- Partake in the performance management process
- Provide input into and maintain own personal development plan
- Formulate internal employee handbook(s)
- Administrate internal tr