About the Role
As a Supervisor/Specialist at Morrison Express, you will support the company in ensuring compliance with relevant laws and regulations in the freight forwarding and logistics industry. In this role, you will assist in reviewing and drafting contracts, providing legal research and advice, handling routine legal matters, and supporting compliance with employment laws. You will work closely with internal stakeholders and external partners, escalating complex issues to senior legal management as needed. Strong communication skills in both English and Chinese are essential to succeed in this role.
Key Responsibilities
- Review Contracts: Help review, draft, and negotiate contracts to reduce legal risks. Make sure all contracts follow both international and local laws.
- Legal Support: Conduct legal research and provide preliminary legal advice on issues related to shipping, logistics, and freight forwarding. Support departments such as Finance, Sales, and Operations, escalating complex issues to senior legal management when required.
- Handle Disputes: Coordinate with external lawyers and internal stakeholders on legal disputes. Assist in preparing documentation and support resolution through negotiation, mediation, or legal proceedings.
- Compliance Matters: Support compliance initiatives by monitoring developments in trade sanctions, employment regulations, internal conventions, and company policies. Contributes to the preparation of training materials and the drafting of internal communications on legal matters.
- Risk Awareness: Assist in identifying potential legal risks in day-to-day operations and recommend mitigation steps to senior legal counsel.
- Cargo Claims: Support Operations, Sales, and claim handlers in managing cargo claims by providing legal analysis and opinions.
- Corporate Governance: Assist with corporate filings and governance if needed.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Law (LL.B.). An LL.M. degree and a lawyer’s license are preferred but not required.
- Fluent in both English and Chinese (Mandarin), with strong written and spoken communication skills.
- 5~8 years of experience in a similar legal role, ideally in the logistics, transportation, or freight forwarding industry.
- Ability to work well with different teams.
- Strong analytical skills to understand complex legal documents.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
- High ethical standards and confidentiality.
- Ability to work independently and make good decisions.
Top Skills
What We Do
Established in 1972, Morrison Express is a privately-held company operated by a professional management team.
We have successfully transformed from a Taiwan-based freight forwarder focusing on Taiwan-US route to a global player with over 2000 employees operating over 90 owned offices in America, Asia, Europe, and South America, plus more than 100 agents in 5 continents, and are still expanding rapidly in terms of revenue and corporate size.
We serve an expanding list of multinational businesses, managing their air, ocean and ground freight forwarding and logistics needs on a global basis. Via our regional logistics centers — strategically located in key gateway cities across different regions — we provide highly customized, cost-effective freight consolidation, warehousing, distribution and delivery solutions that caters to our client’s most challenging business needs.
We continue to invest and operate one of industry’s most sophisticated information systems, designed for today’s increasingly complex supply chain logistics. Our flexible IT solutions provide clients with the capability to integrate our shipping, warehousing and door-to-door delivery solutions with their own information systems, enabling the clients to have end-to-end supply chain visibility.
Our success as a global service provider is and will continue to be driven by our team of highly dedicated and hard working individuals. Their commitment and passion to their jobs are the backbone on which we have built our organization, and this will continue to be a source of passion with which we serve our clients.
