Legal Manager
Oversee the legal aspects of an organisation and ensure compliance to laws and regulations.
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- What's it like to be a Legal Manager?
- How to become a Legal Manager
- Latest Legal Manager jobs
- Top skills and experience for Legal Managers
What's it like to be a Legal Manager?
Legal Managers guide and oversee the legal aspects of a business, ensuring that the organisation operates within the scope of law. They handle legal issues from contract negotiation, employment laws, intellectual property rights to corporate governance. They're also responsible for drafting and revising legal documentation, providing legal advice and reducing potential legal risks. Legal Managers often work in corporations, law firms or governmental organisations.
Tasks and duties
- Overseeing legal issues within an organisation and providing legal advice.
- Developing and leading internal corporate legal strategies.
- Drafting, negotiating and reviewing legal agreements, contracts and policy documents.
- Fostering relationships with outside legal representatives and agencies.
- Conducting and coordinating research into a variety of legal issues.
- Ensuring an organisation's legal compliance in all aspects and reduce chances of legal risk.
- Providing legal training to company staff to enhance their awareness of legal implications in their roles.
How to become a Legal Manager
To be a Legal Manager, you must finish a Law degree and pass the Singapore Bar Exam. You also need to build your experience as an in-house or corporate lawyer.
- Complete a Law degree from a recognised university.
- Pass the Singapore Bar Examination and be admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore.
- Gain legal experience with entry-level positions, such as Legal Associate or Junior Lawyer. Then, progress to in-house counsel roles to strengthen your knowledge of corporate law. You need at least 10 years of experience.
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Skills and experience employers are looking for
Having the right skills and experience can make you an in-demand applicant. Legal Manager employers on Jobstreet are looking for job seekers with expertise in the following areas. Legal Advice
Legal Support
Litigation
Corporate Governance
Corporate Secretarial Services
Commercial Contracting
Legal Research
Negotiation
Law
Client Liaison
Instructing
Contract Drafting
Arbitration
Regulatory Compliance
Dispute Resolution
Providing Support
Preparing Tenders
Shipping
Private Practice
Mergers and Acquisitions
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