Corporate Paralegal

About the role

Robert Half, one of FORTUNE’s World’s Most Admired Companies and a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For, is hiring for a Corporate Paralegal to join the Legal department.

Responsibilities

• Prepares state and local filings for employment licenses, dba filings, parent and subsidiary corporate filings and related correspondence with external counsel.
• Maintains due dates and proactively gathers supporting approvals and signatures for timely filings. Provides notary jurat as required on filings or arranges for notary.
• Routine litigation related correspondence with insurance broker, external counsel and witnesses.
• Performs research to assist attorneys in all aspects of the company’s business. Summarizes research and prepares reports for attorneys.
• Manages projects with an attorney leading the matter. Organize and strategize on how to proceed with a project, the interim steps needed to complete the project, and monitors the project to meet deadlines.
• Calculates fees and handles A/P process for fees related to filings. Receives, tracks, logs, and initiates payment process for invoices, including law firm invoices and legal department expenses.
• Responsible for file setup for new corporate or litigation matters. Gathers facts and documents for claims. Calendar filing deadlines for corporate filings or litigation claims.
• Maintain and update case or corporate information in files. Primary responsibility for gathering information for weekly, monthly and quarterly reports and logs used by team. Updates the information for the period. Monitors deadlines for reports, sends prompts and reminders or escalates to a supervisor or department lawyer to support timely reporting. Initial point of contact for data in report to corporate services business units or external counsel. Distributes Report on schedule.

Requirements

• Associates Degree with Paralegal or legal secretary training.
• 5+ years as legal secretary or paralegal.
• MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint + Legal database software.
• Knowledge of basic accounting concepts.
• Notary or ability to obtain notary license.

Pay

The typical annual salary range for this position is $61,000.00 - $94,000.00. Salary is negotiable depending upon experience and location.