Legal Assistant – AI Industry & Technology Representative

Job Description

Legal Assistant - AI Industry & Technology Representative

Salary range: Maximum Up to NPR 20,000.

Location: Kathmandu, Nepal

Work type: Freelance/Contract

AI DIGIMARKET LLC is developing AI automation solutions for industrial and business applications. We are looking for a Legal Assistant – AI Industry & Technology Representative who can support the company with legal research, legal documentation, contracts, intellectual property, technology-related legal matters, business protection, and professional communication.

This position combines:

• Legal research and documentation.
• Nepal Constitution and Nepal law research.
• Civil and criminal law research.
• Intellectual property, trademarks, and copyrights research.
• U.S. legal and regulatory research relevant to the company.
• AI automation and industrial technology research.
• U.S.–Nepal business and engineering operations research.

The successful candidate will work under the general direction of management and, where applicable, qualified legal counsel.

Professional Expectations

• Work effectively under the general direction of management and legal counsel, regardless of the individual's age or seniority.
• Respect established organizational responsibilities, legal procedures, business processes, and company decisions.
• Demonstrate professionalism, maturity, reliability, confidentiality, and accountability.

Key Responsibilities

• Support NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, contracts, agreements, MoUs, contractor agreements, and other technology-related documentation.
• Assist with legal research related to AI, software, technology, intellectual property, contracts, data, employment/contractor matters, and business operations.
• Support intellectual property documentation for software, AI automation systems, engineering work, technical documentation, and company-developed technology.
• Assist with protecting and documenting trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, patents (where applicable), software, technical documentation, and other intellectual property.
• Maintain an organized IP register identifying company intellectual property assets, ownership, registration status, renewal dates, supporting documents, and potential risks.
• Assist with documentation related to U.S.–Nepal engineering and business operations.
• Support the company in developing a structured technology, legal, IP, and business-protection documentation process.

The candidate should also research comparable U.S. federal and state laws and regulations relevant to AI DIGIMARKET's U.S. operations, customers, contracts, technology, intellectual property, data, and business relationships.

Required Qualifications

• Must have a bachelor's degree in BA LLB.
• Must have a working laptop to support day-to-day activities, with the appropriate system requirements and software tools in place.
• Previous experience in legal assistance, contract administration, documentation, legal research, or intellectual-property support is preferred.
• Comfortable working with digital documentation and cloud-based systems.
• Ability to communicate technical, business, and legal information clearly and professionally.
• Strong professional English speaking and writing skills are required/professional level is preferred.
• Comfortable working with engineers, management, customers, business partners, and legal professionals.

Preferred Knowledge

The ideal candidate should have an interest in learning about:

• Constitution of Nepal
• Nepal civil law
• Nepal criminal law
• U.S. federal and state law
• Intellectual property
• Copyright
• Trademark
• Patent and industrial-property matters
• Contract law
• AI-related legal issues
• Data and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Software licensing
• Cloud computing
• Software development
• Industrial automation
• Manufacturing technology
• Technology business operations
• International business operations
• Business continuity and risk management

Important Professional Requirement

This position is a legal-support and legal-assistance position. The Legal Assistant will not independently provide legal advice or make legal determinations that require a licensed attorney or other legally authorized professional.

The candidate must be able to recognize when an issue should be escalated to management or qualified legal counsel.

Ideal Candidate

We are looking for a professional legal and business support person first, with the ability to understand technology and communicate effectively with an engineering organization.

The ideal candidate is organized, detail-oriented, professionally confident in English, interested in technology, comfortable with contracts and documentation, capable of conducting legal research, interested in Nepal and U.S. law, and willing to learn about AI, software engineering, cloud computing, industrial automation, intellectual property, and technology business operations.

The candidate should also have a forward-looking mindset.