Legal Consultant

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About the Organization

The Indian Institute of Management Kashipur is a second-generation IIM set up by the Government of India in 2011. It aspires to achieve excellence in management education by using innovative teaching methods, promoting high quality research and practicing sustainable leadership.

Celebrating fourteen years of serving the education and management sector, IIM Kashipur is committed to its four core values: collegiality, transparency, green consciousness, and pro-active engagement with all stakeholders. The institute believes that as an institution of national importance, it has a larger role to play in the field of management education and social transformation. Our strategic goals include improvement of the academic ecosystem; synergy between educational theory, practice and research; promotion of innovation, entrepreneurship and public service; empowerment of local stakeholders; upliftment of economically challenged sections of the society; and gender diversity.

Job Description

• Carry out continuous review, monitoring, applicability, interpretation of all relevant Rules/Legislations pertaining to Service and Civil matters of Institute.
• Assist the Institute in court cases as well as matters which require examination from a legal point of view (OAs/WPs/SLPs/CIC matters/Disciplinary matters) can be done in a professional manner.
• Tender opinion in issues coming before the Institute.
• Prepare draft affidavits and provide other inputs in consultation with sections, Divisions concerned in cases where the Institute has been made a respondent.
• Vetting of draft affidavit prepared by Govt. Counsels and to be filed it in various judicial/quasi-judicial forums in cases where the Institute has been made a respondent.
• Vetting the replies prepared on various parliamentary questions.
• To work closely with different Ministries/Institutes and Divisions of the DoPT in order to provide a holistic opinion on legal matter.
• Scrutinize legal papers, documents and affidavits received in the Institute and offer comments.
• Maintain contact with all empanelled Central Govt. Legal Counsels to keep abreast of ongoing and current court cases and process the matter related to payment of professional fees to Central Govt. Counsels as admissible.
• Liaison with the Government counsels.
• Perform such other work legal nature as may be entrusted from time to time.

Education Qualification/Required Skills &Experience

Essential Qualifications:

• Having Master’s Degree/ Bachelor’s Degree of Law from a recognized University or Institute in India, recognized by the Bar Council of India
• Must have excellent written and oral communication and Interpersonal skills.

Desirable:

• Retired as Deputy Legal Advisor or Assistant Legal Advisor from Ministry of Law.
• Should be registered as an advocate in the Bar Counsel in terms of Advocate’s Act, 1961

Experience/Knowledge:

For Retired Government employees

• Minimum 10 years’ experience of handling court cases related to service matter in ay Central or State Government Ministry/Department/PSU.

For Legal Professional from open market

• Minimum 10 years of post-qualification experience of working with Government Department/PSUs and/or Supreme court of India/High Courts/District Courts.

Desirable:

• Experience in handling court cases related to service matters /civil matters in any Central of State Government Ministry/Department/PSU

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