Counsel
LLM – University of Lahore
LLB – University of Punjab
Asma is a dedicated and dynamic legal professional with hands-on experience in casework management, and legal research and support. She is skilled in handling contentious proceedings and non-contentious matters, reducing litigation expenses, and diligently maintaining knowledge of current case law, regulations, and legislation to ensure continuous compliance. She has experience in delivering litigation, identifying and addressing clients’ issues, conducting legal research, organizing schedules for witnesses/legal proceedings, formulating legal reports as well as presenting judicial review applications.
EDUCATION
- LLM – University of Lahore
- LLB – University of Punjab
EXPERIENCE
Delivered strategic leadership to management and help them to achieve set goals. Offer expert-level guidance to them in all legal matters, while analyzing and addressing legal disputes. Represent their legal issues in civil/ session court’s proceedings. Performed several operations comprising of preparing legal documents and conducting legal research
to meet the management expectations. Established and maintained long-term professional relationships with intra-company through excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Key Contributions:
▪ Participated in the litigation proceedings for company on major cases.
▪ Ensured safe, secure, and efficient running of all filing system of firm, which enhanced work efficiency.
▪ Provided tactical advice and direction to litigation, contracts negotiation, and claims handling onfreight forwarding, and social issues, resulting in improving employee’s experience.
▪ Negotiated and successfully secured a Compliance reports, Agreements for an international management Of company
▪ Managed firm´s secretaries and improved space and search/find tools, while coordinating with courtagents and technical experts.
Global Citizenship Solution, Lahore, Punjab
Legal Advisor (head Of Team), August 2022 to October 2022
Delivered strategic leadership to a team of three lawyers and encouraged them to achieve set goals. Offer expert-level guidance to clients, while analyzing and addressing legal disputes. Represent clients in civil/ session court’s proceedings..
Key Contributions:
▪ Participated in the team that led successful litigation proceedings for company on major cases.
▪ Provided tactical advice and direction to litigation, contracts negotiation, and claims handling onfreight forwarding, and social issues.
▪ Managed firm´s secretaries and improved space and search/find tools, while coordinating with courtagents and technical experts.
Siddiq & Co, Lahore, Punjab
Associate Lawyer, Corporate Lawyer, March 2021 to July 2022
Delivered strategic leadership to a team of three lawyers and encouraged them to achieve set goals. Offer expert-level guidance to clients, while analyzing and addressing legal disputes. Represent clients in civil/ session court’s proceedings. Performed several operations comprising of preparing legal documents and conducting legal research to meet senior expectations. Established and maintained long-term professional relationships with clients through excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Key Contributions:
▪ Consult and handle all corporate legal processes (e.g. intellectual property, mergers & acquisitions, financial/securities offerings, compliance issues, transactions, agreements, lawsuits, patents)
▪ Research, anticipate and guard company against legal risks
▪ Structure, draft and review reports and other legal documents
▪ Represent company in legal proceedings (administrative boards, court trials etc.) ▪ Draft and administer all contracts
Justice Project Pakistan, Lahore, Punjab
Trainee Lawyer/ Legal Researcher, November 6the 2020 to February 1st 2021
As Legal researchers, was responsible for finding and analyzing information related to legal cases. I commonly worked with attorneys, but may also worked independently or as part of a larger team. I was able to quickly find relevant information in large databases of documents. Due to have stronganalytical skills so that i can determine which pieces of information are most important.
Key Contributions:
▪ Participated in the team that led successful litigation proceedings for clients on major cases.
▪ Ensured safe, secure, and efficient running of all filing system of firm, which enhanced work efficiency.
▪ Tracking down cases in various legal databases, including federal and state case law databases andinternational and foreign law databases
▪ Researching topics such as constitutional rights, criminal procedure, tort law, and administrative law
▪ Preparing transcripts of court proceedings and other official documents ▪ Identifying relevant legal precedents and associated case law for use in legal arguments or briefs
Softax Tax Consultants (Pvt.) Ltd, Lahore, Punjab
Trainee Tax & Corporate Lawyer, November 29th 2019 to May 1st 2020
Delivered strategic work and to a team of three lawyers and helped them to achieve set goals. Offer expert- level guidance to clients, while analyzing and addressing their legal and tax, service, and Intellectual Property disputes. Performed several operations comprising of preparing legal documents and conducting legal research to meet senior expectations.
Key Contributions:
▪ Conducted the necessary legal research to understand tax law and policy. ▪ Drafted professional documents create and maintained many types of documents, including wills,employment-related agreements, court briefs, and tax forms. ▪ Handled Tax Disputes while helping the company’s clients and handled disputes related to taxobligations.
▪ Represented Clients in or advise clients in courtroom settings as needed. Read, Non Profit Organization, Lahore, Punjab
Coordinator (Focal Person), March 2017 to March 2018
Delivered strategic leadership to a team to achieve set goals. Offer expert-level guidance to management, while analyzing and addressing the administrative issues and problems Established and maintained long- term professional relationships with clients through excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Key Contributions:
▪ Responsible for overall supervision of the project activities.
▪ Design and executes project work plans to meet the goals and objective of the project. ▪ Identifies resources needed and assigns individual responsibilities. ▪ Responsible to Submit Narrative and Financial Report
▪ Conduct orientation sessions for properly orient the staff about overall objectives and activities ofthe project as per approved proposal.
▪ Develop Project Plan and consultation with the team, with the assigning of roles and responsibilitiesagainst the activities of the project as per approved proposal. ▪ Sharing of communication check list with the staff and follow ups for ensuring its implementation inthe field activities
Additional Trainings/Short Certifications
▪ Workshop on “Trade Mark Registration Procedure” hosted jointly by the Intellectual PropertyOrganization of Pakistan on 21st April 2019 at IPO Regional Office, Lahore, Pakistan.
▪ Workshop on “Cyber Crime and Cyber Security”, from 25th January 2018, at Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
▪ A three days workshop as a faculty member of Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry “Company Registration” in 8-November 2019, organized by Securities Exchange Commission Of Pakistan in Lahore
▪ One day training of Social Media Marketing, organized by Empowerment thru Creative Integration (ECI) Pvt. Lt held in Lahore, 9 th Jan. 2020..
▪ Participated in a Workshop of Registration of Firm and Company held in Lahore High Court Bar
on 15th December 2017.
▪ Workshop on Seminar on Tax Planning, Organized by Lahore Tax Bar Association on 22nd March, 2018.
▪ Participated in awareness session on working of E -Khidmat e Markaz at Arfa Software Technology Park Lahore on 31st jan,2019.
Post Graduate Diplomas
▪ Post Graduate Diploma in Taxation Law -2022: Secured 79% University of Punjab 1st Division ▪ Post Graduate Diploma in Corporate Law -2021:Secured 73% University of Punjab. 1st Division
▪ Diploma in Web developing and SMM- 2019, Lahore Women College University by PunjabInformation Technology Board, Government of the Punjab.
▪ Turkish Language, One-year diploma, 2015-2016, from Oriental Department, University of Punjab,Lahore
AREAS OF PRACTICE
- Company Law
- Commercial Law
- Corporate Law
- Civil Law
- Immigration Law
- Contract Law
MEMBERSHIP
Punjab Bar Council