Legal Intern

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Description

Sage is committed to youth skills development by providing graduates with an opportunity to gain work experience to ready them for the corporate world. Applications are invited for the Legal Internship for unemployed graduates between the age of 18 and 35. The Internship program will run for a period of twelve (12) months.

Responsibilities

 Drafting of Legal Advice and Opinions;
• Vetting of legal documents including operational manuals and policies;
• Drafting articles for publication in the internal Legal Brief;
• Drafting and vetting of Contracts;
• Provision of transactional support to the business;
• Participate in contract negotiations;
• Attendance of and advice to different Committees;
• Instructing and consulting with external legal service providers;
• Drafting of briefing notes/Memos to the Executive Management;
• Management and achieving of Contracts; and
• Stakeholder relations management.

Qualifications
• LLB Degree

Technical and behavioural competencies required

The successful candidate will be required to display the following competencies in this role:
• Written and verbal communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Detail orientation
• Desire and potential to learn
• Self-motivated
• Basic computer skills
• Prioritize tasks as needed

Like the business builders we serve, Sage began as a startup. Our founder David Goldman wanted to automate accounting processes in his own business. He worked with a team of Newcastle University students in the UK to develop software to make it happen and realised other businesses could benefit from this too. In 1981, he formed Sage. In 1998, Sage came to North America with the acquisition of leading desktop accounting software, Peachtree. Today Sage has 13 000 employees and serves over 3 million customers in 23 countries across mainland Europe, Africa, Australia, Asia and Latin America. In 2017, Sage acquired Intacct and Fairsail. In 2018, Sage launched Sage Business Cloud.