Corporate Paralegal

The Paralegal will assist the inhouse legal department by providing research support services including document preparation and review; legal research, drafting correspondence, memoranda, reports, and other documents.

• Managing Customer Contracts: Oversee the process of managing customer contracts, ensuring timely execution and compliance with company policies.
• Utilizing Ironclad System: Serve as the primary administrator for the Ironclad system, managing contract workflows and ensuring accurate data entry and maintenance.
• Overseeing CRA and Contract Processes: Manage the Contract Review and Approval (CRA) process, guiding contracts through the lifecycle to completion.
• Negotiating Confidentiality and Sales Term Sheets: Negotiate confidentiality and sales term sheets using company templates, ensuring alignment with legal and business requirements.
• Drafting and Reviewing Legal Documents: Create, proofread, and edit various legal documents, maintaining accuracy and consistency.
• Scheduling Legal Department Meetings: Coordinate meetings and calls for the legal department with internal clients and external parties, ensuring efficient communication and collaboration.
• Maintaining Legal Department Files: Organize and maintain files for the legal department, both physical and electronic, ensuring easy access and confidentiality.
• Managing Legal Department's Shared Drive: Organize and maintain the legal department's shared drive, facilitating efficient document management and retrieval.
• Filing New Documents: Manage the process of filing new legal documents, ensuring proper documentation and organization.
• Tracking Litigation and Dispute Matters: Monitor and track litigation and dispute matters, providing updates to relevant stakeholders as necessary.
• Reviewing Invoices from Outside Counsel: Manage Legal Tracker and review invoices from outside counsel, ensuring accuracy and adherence to budgetary guidelines.
• Managing Corporate Entities: Oversee a portfolio of corporate entities, ensuring compliance with regulatory filing requirements and maintaining corporate books and records.
• Managing IP Portfolio: Maintain the company's intellectual property portfolio, including patents and trademarks, and collaborate with outside counsel on IP matters.
• Assisting with Stakeholder Communications: Support stakeholder communications and records management, including managing records within a cloud-based platform.
• Assisting with Third-Party Diligence: Manage the third-party diligence process, facilitating due diligence reviews for new customers and vendors.
• Research and Analysis: Conduct research and analysis of laws, legal articles, judicial decisions, and other legal sources, providing written analysis to support decision-making.

Requirements

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Proficiency using virtual data rooms to upload and organize documents
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
• Experience billing your time
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Superb attention to detail, as well as organizational and multitasking skills
• Ability to multitask
• Ability to deal effectively with time pressures, stress, and changing demands of job on a regular basis
• Ability to handle highly confidential business information

Candidates/incumbents must meet the minimum qualifications as detailed below:

• Paralegal certification or equivalent experience required.
• Bachelors’ degree, preferred.
• 7+ years of experience as a Corporate Paralegal or Assistant to the General Counsel
• In-house experience, required.

Applicants must possess the permanent right to work in the US.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health Coverage: Including medical, prescription, dental, and vision care plans.

• Insurance Protection: Basic term life, accidentals, and voluntary life insurance coverage.
• Financial Security: Short and long-term disability plans, along with a 401(k) retirement plan.
• Time Off Support: Flexible time off program, paid holidays, sick leave, and parental leave benefits.