Paralegal

Responsibilities

• Exhibit/recognize the importance of building effective relationships and establishing trust to build collaborative relationships
• Work with deadlines and manages multiple stakeholders
• Continually improve systems and processes used to deliver results
• Understand the organization’s system environment and tools
• Understand the key legal, regulatory, ethical and reputational risks in situations facing the business
• Manage contract database systems to meet weekly update deadlines
• Provide support to legal team members related to contract lifecycle and IP management
• Review and edit confidentiality agreements, memos, and other legal documents
• Conduct legal research on case law, statutes, and regulations
• Support review of outside counsel invoices and e-billing
• Manage the general legal inbox
• Ask appropriate business opportunity questions to make informed and aligned and decisions
• Avoid using hearsay or personal opinions and negotiate based on valid information from both sides
• Invest time and resources to ensure understanding of the business, its processes and objectives
• Possess an awareness of the impact of own work on the company’s integrity and ethics strategy and adhere to those policies
• Support a respectful diverse and inclusive workplace
• Understand the organization’s system environment and tools
• Understand the key legal, regulatory, ethical and reputational risks in situations facing the business
• Seek out information from the business or market to deeply understand facts in order to support risk management
• Identify resources and efforts around key business deliverables and timelines
• Identify risks associated with projects
• Take ownership of tasks seeking guidance and input from others as appropriate
• Identify and communicate roles to avoid confusion and drive accountability
• Align work with the vision, strategy, and priorities of your site or function
• Build and sustain connection with leaders and peers
• Seek challenging assignments, feedback, and diverse perspectives to continue developing
• Engage in open, honest communication with managers and peers
• Assess performance and self-motivate to achieve results
• Push to expand the scope of role; is proactive and seeks new opportunities
• Continually improve systems and processes used to deliver results
• Grow and support team through organizational, market, and industry changes

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED and a minimum of 7 years of related work experience, OR AAS Degree in a relevant field and a minimum of 5 years of related work experience, OR BA/BS Degree or higher in a relevant field and a minimum of 3 years of related work experience
• Preferred Paralegal certification
• Experience with contract databases and legal and IP management systems such as Spring CM, DocuSign, and IPFolio

Other Qualifications

• Must pass a background check
• Must pass a drug screen
• May be required to pass Occupational Health Screening

Pay Range

Pay Range : $65,000-$89,000/yr.