Job Details
Job Summary
The Legal Assistant is mainly responsible for the preparation, filing, serving and follow-up of legal documents, conducting searches and the recording of documents.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Prepares weekly work plan for submission to the Principal Legal Officer and Senior Legal Assistant.
- Prepares and files unpaid National Insurance Certificates, unpaid Severance, Affidavits and Judgement Notes.
- Serves unpaid National Insurance Certificates, unpaid Severance Certificates and Garnishee Orders and Writs of Summons on delinquent employers, self-employed persons and third parties.
- Files Judgement Summons, Orders Memoranda of Satisfaction and other court documents as necessary.
- Conducts legal searches.
- Checks to ensure that unpaid National Insurance Certificates and unpaid Severance Certificates are entered in the SAP database.
- Calculates information from surveys for the preparation of unpaid National Insurance Certificates, unpaid Severance Certificates, Judgement Summons and other court processes.
Requirements
- An Associate degree in Para-Legal Studies and not less than three years’ relevant experience.
Skills and other attributes desired
- A basic knowledge of Court procedures.
- Sound Human Relations skills.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
- Ability to work well under pressure.
- Attentiveness to detail.
Please submit your resume along with the names and contact information of two business references to vacancy@bginis.gov.bb on or before October 25, 2024. You should indicate the name of the position for which you are applying in the subject line of your email.
Thank you for your application. Please note that only short-listed candidates will be acknowledged.
