•Providing advice on Real Estate legal issues and business matters.•Ensuring the development of service level agreements for service support and delivery.•Monitoring the maintenance of the registers and other records required to be maintained by the Company under the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA).•Assisting in the development of guidelines, policies, procedures.•Ensuring (internal & external) compliance with laid down guidelines, policies and procedures; investigating issues of non-compliance as may be required.•Reviewing and advising management on legal implications of internal policies and procedures.•Reviewing and drafting contracts, agreements and internal policies and ensuring that they are in compliance with all statutory or legal requirements.

Counseal Legal expert

• Management of tenants as regards; final demand notices, rent renewal, quit notices and six months’ rent reminder.• Settling of disputes through ALTERNATE Dispute RESOLUTION (A.D.R) skills between landlord/tenants, drafting terms of settlement and Adoption of terms in court.• Carrying out research and legal advice on cases before forwarding to external lawyers.• Watching and documentation of the firm’s brief in court.• Drafting; tenancy agreements, offer letters and preparing deed of assignments for new prospective tenants and assignors.• Conducting search on properties at ABUJA GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (A.G.I.S) OR FEDERAL HOUSING AUTHORITY (F.H.A) and preparation of search reports.• Filing of statutory compliance as regards annual returns to CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (C.A.C)• Drafting and dispatching of letters as regards; final demand notices, rent renewal and pre-vacation inspection to tenants.

• Administration of Criminal Justice Department• General litigation drafting and scrutiny of police arraignment process.• Prison visitation and decongestion of the prison from trumped up charges.

• General development of advocacy skills.• Training in client interview protocols • Preparation of witnesses for trial• Drafting of court processes for filing in court• Watching the firm’s brief in court

•Filing of court processes and documents•Assisting in filing of incorporation documents in CAC•Preparation and scrutiny of litigation drafts•Watching and documentation of the firm’s brief in court •Recording and dissemination of minutes of the firm’s meetings to associates and partners present.