Staff Lawyer

Job Description

Title: Staff Lawyer

Company Name: Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK)

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Masters in Law (LL.M)

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Unit : Litigation Unit, Strengthening Democracy by Promoting Human Rights Culture in Bangladesh Project.
∎ Reportable to: Sr. Coordinator/Director-Program
∎ Duration: Upto 30 June 2023
∎ Job Nature: Regular/Contractual

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Receive complaints and collect all documents of cases.
∎ Drafting of ejahar, petition, plaint, written statements etc.
∎ Compile all documents for filing cases and submit those documents to the concerned court.
∎ Take all necessary steps in the courts.
∎ Handle court cases, in Dhaka and outside of Dhaka.
∎ Follow-up of cases.
∎ Handle all needed petition hearing in the court cases.
∎ Responsible to visit any field and rescue of victims of violence and help the clients for lodging FIR and general diary to police station at any time of day- night (week days and holidays).
∎ Maintain case related documents and files.
∎ Attend the unit meetings and any other meetings/seminars/ workshops training, which is arranged by ASK and other organizations.
∎ Maintain files for correspondence, work sheets and diary.
∎ Any other work as required by ASK management.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at most 40 years
∎ At least one year experience as practicing lawyer. Applicant must have Bar Council Certificate.
∎ The applicants should have experience in the area of NGO sectors.
∎ The applicant should have experience in similar position.
∎ Fluency both in Bengali & English.
∎ Ability to work under pressure.
∎ Applicant should have good computer knowledge especially in Microsoft Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint.

Salary: Tk. 19416 (Monthly)

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 25 Dec 2022

Company Information:
∎ 14 Dec 2022
∎ Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK)
∎ Business : Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) was established in 1986 as a national legal aid and human rights organization. Initially its work was limited to providing free legal services to the disempowered particularly women, working children and workers in Dhaka city. But over the last thirty three years, ASK has evolved a more comprehensive approach to the promotion, protection and prevention in the area of legal and human rights. ASK’s strategies to promote human rights
awareness and community activism; offer legal aid through mediation and litigation while survivors are given psycho-social counseling; investigations into human rights violations and their documentation are supplemented by research which together lead to media campaigns to defend human rights, and public interest litigation for law and policy reform.

For more information about ASK and what we do visit our website at www.askbd.org

Category: Law/Legal

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