Legal Assistant at FIDA

Reports to: The Senior Legal Counsel

Duties

• Attending to clients and advising on various processes that are required in the filing of matters in the Court Registry.
• Serving of all the court processes and updating the FIDA office and Clients
• Filling and retrieving clients files
• Drafting relevant legal documents.
• Participate in legal dispute resolution and mediation on related matters as brought to the attention of the relevant FIDA Kenya office.
• Manage FIDA and Court Registry.
• Receiving court reports from clients of all matters from the court and updating files.
• Updating all the Access to Justice team’s diaries including the Master diary to inform on upcoming matters and progress of all that have been served upon.
• Support the team in Training of clients on self-representation in court.
• Conduct file audits to ensure they are in order before serving the same to the relevant recipients and in Court.
• Ensure financial budgeting and requisitions for branch office in the requests for filing fees requirements and follow-up and assist in auditing of the same as and when called upon to do so.

Qualifications

• Diploma in Legal Studies
• Licensed court process server
• Holder of a Certificate of Good Conduct
• MUST have 2 years work experience.
• Work in Non-Governmental Organisation will be an added advantage.