Legal Associate at Waqar Alam Abbasi & Associates (2021-08 – 2022-12)
Provided legal services including case management, court appearances, document preparation, and compliance work.
- Routinely collect all dates for their ongoing cases and update their status as well
- Applied for certified copies of various orders, judgments, and decrees by submitting applications
- Routinely appear before the court for matters pertaining to cross-examination and evidence
- Routinely updates the case diary as well
- Deals with a client for collection of their payments
- Drafted various family cases related to Dissolution of Marriage, Suit For Conjugal rights, and Suit for Jactitation of Marriage
- Deal with various applications for criminal bail before courts
- Successfully manage cases related to the Foreign Exchange Regulation before the adjudication department of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) as well as the Foreign Exchange Regulation Appellate Board
- Complied with the notices received by the clients for various matters related to FBR, SBP, and SRB
Tax Associate at Faraz Associates (2019-09 – 2023-12)
Provided tax compliance services including income tax filing, company registration, and revenue board compliance.
- E – Filing of Income Tax for Individuals on IRIS along with collecting and maintaining any and all documentation related to the filing of the income tax returns
- Verification of account statements of salaried individuals and maintaining records for all clients
- Calculation of wealth statement for all clients as well as preparation of a statement of asset and liability
- Maintaining detailed tax records for all clients and use best-practice methodologies for tax avoidance
- Electronic Company Registration with SECP of sole proprietorships as well as guiding new and prospective clients through the entire process
- Registration of Companies with the Sindh Revenue Board and Punjab Revenue Authority
- Carried out detailed analysis on the impact of SROs to showcase their impact on customers
- Handle mostly legal and compliance work while dealing with banks on day-to-day matters of clients
- Deals all kinds of SECP compliances
- Successfully deals with 2500+ cases of income tax returns mostly of salaried and business individuals, Association of Persons, and companies
Internship at Abrar Hasan & Co. (2022-01 – 2022-02)
Legal internship focused on tax matters, tribunal appearances, and client representation.
- Review and advise on the legal implications of internal policies and procedures
- Review and draft contracts, agreements, and internal policies and ensure that they comply with all statutory or legal requirements
- Appeared before the FBR Tribunal for various matters of appeal and stays
- Successfully represented clients before Inland Revenue for Tax Recovery / Tax Demand matters pending before Assistant Commissioners and Commissioners (Appeals) IR
- Maintained the list of all loose case laws and arranged it in a methodological manner and, so that it'll be conveniently readable whenever needed. Also, list down all case laws available at the firm in soft copy so that they can be easily tracked when needed
- Participated in a discussion of case preparation and meet with the clients as well
- Attended the court proceedings at High Court Sindh, and learned the importance of managing the time when more than one case is fixed before the court
Internship at Haidermota & Co. (2021-06 – 2021-07)
Legal internship focused on contract vetting, legal research, and memorandum preparation.
- Did Contract Vetting for one of their construction contracts as well
- Wrote an article on the firm's Practice
- Learned how to research and find similar case laws applied to it
- Learned Email etiquette
- Preparation of legal memorandum
- Thoroughly go through the construction contract and did a contract vetting as well
