Associate Lawyer

As an Associate Lawyer, you will advise on technical, strategic and procedural aspects across the spectrum of problems although the focus will be on providing advice on Thai and International clients. You will be working on an international team driving complex advice.  You should be well experienced as a general commercial lawyer with strong contract drafting skills.

You will provide advice relating to:

• Responsible for providing technically sound legal opinions and technical advice to clients;
• Support senior staff by providing technically sound legal advice directly to clients with appropriate supervision;
• Manage 'work in progress' in accordance with business standards;
• Responsible for the quality of client services and advice;
• Responsible for building and maintaining productive working relationships with clients and staff alike;
• Expected to contribute to the management and development of other junior and paralegal staff;
• Responsible for ensuring effective management of time, effort and resources in order to generate maximum efficiencies;
• Expected to make a constructive contribution to the non-chargeable activities at Silk Legal.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for providing technically sound legal opinions and technical advice to clients;
• Support senior staff by providing technically sound legal advice directly to clients with appropriate supervision;
• Manage 'work in progress' in accordance with business standards;
• Responsible for the quality of client services and advice;
• Responsible for building and maintaining productive working relationships with clients and staff alike;
• Expected to contribute to the management and development of other junior and paralegal staff;
• Responsible for ensuring effective management of time, effort and resources in order to generate maximum efficiencies;
• Expected to make a constructive contribution to the non-chargeable activities at Silk Legal.

COMPETENCIES

• Qualified Thai Lawyer with 5 + years post qualification experience;
• Excellent academic background from a Top 5 Thai University;
• 2 to 3 years of experience within a Leading Thai or multinational Firm;
• Must be detail oriented and organized;
• Must possess good analytical skills;
• Must have excellent customer service skills;
• Must have good verbal and written communication skills in Thai and English (English at IELTS Band 7 or above);
• Must be familiar with and have experience with modern computerized practice management systems;
• Foreign qualifications and/or LLM is desirable.

SKILLS

• Must be fair, honest and trustworthy in all dealings;
• Must be able to perform under pressure with minimum supervision;
• Must be focused and productive;
• Build commercial awareness and share knowledge and relevant new information with your Colleagues in weekly associate meetings;
• Keep up to date with Thai and international legal developments, technology and business tools relevant to the role;
• Be proactive in ensuring all financial matters are timely and up to date;
• Ability to spot, identify and follow through business development opportunities;
• Build productive and strong relationships both internally and externally.

Benefits

• Above average competitive salary;
• Medical insurance;
• Bonuses.

Silk Legal Co., Ltd is a young, dynamic law firm based in Bangkok, Thailand. We are different from your usual “law firm”. As a technology driven firm, we provide an innovative work environment where we empower our people to deliver their very best work and reach their full potential.

Our culture and values are at our core and what makes us a great firm to work with and for, and we take them very seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive and distinctive. We deeply value the relationships we build with our clients and we know that they value our warm, friendly human approach.

We are been noted as a notable firm in IFLR 1000 and a Rising Star by Asia Business Law Journal.