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Legal Helpdesk

The Legal Helpdesk at EFP offers comprehensive legal, advisory, and litigation services to all EFP members. Our dedicated team of professional lawyers at the EFP Secretariat handles a wide range of legal matters, from routine issues to complex cases involving Labour, Environmental, and Corporate Law. We ensure that every legal concern is addressed with expertise and efficiency.

Our Legal Helpdesk aims to streamline access to expert legal support for EFP members. We offer a unified platform for addressing a broad spectrum of legal matters, from routine issues to complex cases, across key areas such as Labour, Environmental, and Corporate Law. Our team of professional lawyers at the EFP Secretariat is dedicated to handling your legal needs with the utmost expertise and efficiency.

Legal Services We Offer

The EFP Legal Helpdesk provides Retainership Services, Litigation Assistance, Industrial Relations Services, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Superior Court Cases.

Retainership Services
Vetting of draft letters, notices, contracts, and agreements in connection with business & commercial matters, keeping in view the application and observance of respective laws in force from time to time and legal advice on other general matters accordingly.
Providing legal advice in the areas of Labour Laws, Income Tax Laws, Sales Tax Laws, Corporate Laws, Intellectual Property Laws, etc.
Responding to day-to-day notices and correspondence arising to legal institutions.
Litigation Assistance Services
Handling of Court Cases in the elementary stages for Civil and Labour Courts till the District & Session Court level.
Industrial Relations Services
Providing professional advice on day-to-day matters relating to employee administration, restructuring, outsourcing with particular reference to an employee and industrial relations.
Assisting with Management of Organizations in negotiation with Collective Bargaining Agent Union on the Charter of Demands and to help management in raising and negotiating their Charter of Demands.
Helping management in the formation/establishment of Enterprise Level Institutions as per the requirement of Industrial Relations Act such as Works Council, Management Committee, Joint Management Council, Joint Management Board / OSH Committees, etc. and help in conducting their proceedings and maintaining their records.
Providing help in the establishment of the Board of Trustees for Workers Profit Participation Fund and assistance in calculating/distribution of Worker Profit Participation Fund as per legal requirement.
Alternate Dispute Resolution Cell Services
EFP’s Alternative Dispute Resolution cell will help companies to be interested in resolving the long-standing disputes, Court Cases for an out-of-court settlement, details of these services, and its professional fee will be provided on a case-to-case basis.
Superior Court Cases
In case of court cases in the Higher/Superior Courts, our top noted lawyers may be engaged in charging concession fees to be agreed and settled on a case-to-case basis between the concerned lawyer(s) and the member company. In this event after the TOR is settled between the Lawyer and the Company, they both are entitled to deal directly.

Need Legal Help?

To utilize the services of the EFP Legal Helpdesk, companies must join as members. Membership grants access to a range of professional advisory services, including updates on labour laws, new regulations, legal developments, and significant court cases.

Our Esteemed Legal Experts

The EFP Legal Team comprise of esteemed legal experts from all sort of legal backgrounds.

Barrister Haroon Dugal – Advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan
Khalid Mahmood Siddiqui – Advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan
Zaheer Minhas – Advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan
Justice (R.) Shahid Anwar Bajwa – Former Judge, Sindh High Court
Farhan Minhas – Advocate High Court of Sindh
Rahat Aziz – Advocate High Court of Sindh
Uzma Zahid – Advocate High Court of Sindh and Civil Law Expert
Anwar Kashif Mumtaz – Advocate, Sindh Income Tax Lawyer
Wasim Hashmi, Advocate – Former President Income Tax Bar Association
Azam Shakeel, Advocate – Expert in Intellectual Property Laws

EFPs’ Field of Services.

EFP offers a range of services including Legal Helpdesk, Audit and Compliance, Trainings and Workshops, Industry-Academia Links and Research and Development.

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