Paralegal

Summary

As a Paralegal on MOD’s small in-house legal team, you come with a willingness and enthusiasm for supporting a diverse range of activities. You take pride in your ability to shift rapidly between ad-hoc projects as new priorities emerge and take precedence. You see focusing on opportunities instead of obstacles.

Key Responsibilities

- Assist with corporate governance, including drafting of corporate documents and resolutions; preparation of regulatory filings; ensure proper indexing and filing of original legal documents - Monitor intellectual property and trademark timelines. Assist outside counsel with filings and analysis. - Draft, review, and revise contracts, templates, and transactional documents under the supervision and direction of MOD’s in-house attorneys - Conduct legal research and prepare summaries or recommendations for review by MOD’s in-house attorneys - Review communication related to real property matters and evaluate responses to ensure timely resolution - Perform a variety of legal assignments and lead routine and non-routine projects, including drafting, reviewing and transmitting legal correspondence and documents - Assist with internal investigations relating to employment, operational, or incident-based matters, including fact-gathering and documentation coordination with People Support, Operations, Payroll, IT, and Legal - Manage customer incident reporting and insurance coordination - Support litigation matters, including discovery responses and coordination, insurance correspondence, and outside counsel management - Manage deadlines, both independently and as requested by MOD’s VP of Legal - Provide regular feedback and consultation to appropriate departments regarding the status of legal projects - Meet independently with MOD Leaders as a representative of the Legal Department and work cross-functionally with all departments - Attend to administrative matters

Basic Qualifications

- 3 or more years of paralegal experience in a law firm or in-house legal team - Prior experience supporting litigation including discovery, conducting research and drafting documents. - Functional expertise in litigation and discovery processes, commercial contracting, contract management, and government business filings - Familiarity with trademark filings and other IP matters. - Ability to handle sensitive and confidential situations with tact and diplomacy - Ability to prioritize, organize, and work efficiently and independently in a high-volume/high velocity, results-oriented environment - Experience demonstrating ability to flex and shift priorities based on company needs

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience providing legal support in restaurants, retail or other customer-facing industry.