Legal- House Counsel jobs at Jacobs in India, Gurugram

We are looking to recruit a qualified lawyer with 4 to 8 years of post-qualification experience to support the P&PS North America legal team and based out of our Gurugram office.

THE ROLE:

Reporting to the US attorney responsible for design for design-build projects within the Building & Infrastructure Americas legal team, the successful candidate will support the P&PS Americas team remotely with the following tasks:

• Take responsibility for a wide range of construction and services contracts, from bid stage to negotiation and completion, including contracts with clients, joint venture agreements, guarantees, sub-contracts and confidentiality agreements.
• Streamlined contracts process (task orders under an existing framework)
• Deviations from standard terms
• Assist with some contract management
• Drafting/reviewing of letters (exclusivity, non-exclusive sub-consultant)

Preferred (but not required) International experience:

• Experience with state and local public procurement procedures

• Experience with design perspectives of design-build programs

• Experience with joint ventures and LLCs, including counsel to corresponding boards of directors

• Experience with professional liability, general liability, pollution, and builder’s risk insurance

• Experience with bid protests

• Experience with contracts database management

• Experience with collecting and analysing KPIs and other contracts data

We are looking to recruit a qualified lawyer with [3 to 7] years of post-qualification experience to support the European legal team based in our Gurugram office.

THE ROLES:

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following tasks:

• Take responsibility for drafting and negotiation a wide range of professional services contracts, from tender stage to completion, including client contracts, joint venture agreements, teaming agreements, parent company guarantees, sub-contracts and confidentiality agreements.
• Drafting and updating template documentation e.g. standard terms
• Assisting with contract management
• Providing legal and contractual training
• Advising the business teams about various contractual covenants and potential legal risks
• Drafting/reviewing of letters (exclusivity, non-exclusive sub-consultant)
• Internal claims management (ex. for employer’s liability)

We are looking to recruit a qualified lawyer with 2 to 3 years of post-qualification experience to support the Global Litigation team and based out of our Gurugram office.

THE ROLE:

Reporting to the head of the India legal team, the successful candidates will support the global litigation team remotely with end-to-end litigation management which would comprise of the following tasks:

• Supporting and briefing external counsel regarding different aspects of the litigation.
• Managing e-discovery and other external vendors involved in the most cost-efficient manner.
• Providing legal counsel and case updates to business leadership and other relevant stakeholders.
• Reviewing case dockets, filings and briefs and assisting in devising litigation strategies.
• Interacting with internal stakeholders and assisting in collection of data pertinent to the matter.
• Drafting responses to legal notices, settlement demands, subpoenas and other legal documents.