Senior Transactional Paralegal

What You Will Own

• Support commercial loan transactions from origination through closing.
• Order and review UCC, tax lien, judgment, and litigation searches.
• Order and review title commitments and surveys.
• Cook title clearance of liens, encumbrances, and title objections with title companies, outside counsel, and internal stakeholders.
• Aid in drafting, revising, proofreading, formatting, and redlining transaction documents.
• Work with documents such as promissory notes, mortgages or deeds of trust, loan agreements, guaranties, and UCC financing statements.
• Closings, Post-Closing, and Loan Servicing
• Coordinate closing logistics and help keep transaction workstreams organized and on track.
• Prepare closing binders, document sets, and related closing materials.
• Oversee recording of mortgages and UCC-1 financing statements.
• Track and manage post-closing conditions, follow-ups, and deliverables.
• Aid in loan servicing and asset management matters, including UCC continuation filings, lien releases, assignments, subordinations, estoppels, and loan modifications.
• Entity, Corporate, and Legal Operations
• Manage legal entity registrations and renewals.
• Help ensure company and client entities remain in good standing.
• Maintain company records, Legal/Compliance/Counterparty Governance files and folders, corporate structure charts, and form libraries.
• Cook signature requests, including wet-ink signatures, electronic signatures through DocuSign, and notarizations.
• Coordinate law firm onboarding processes and support intake, review, tracking, and approvals for legal bills.
• Intake and log service of process for litigation matters and other corporate or asset-level notices.
• Participate in meetings, actively listen, and take professional, accurate notes.
• Support legal team projects, research assignments, administrative workflows, and organizational initiatives as needed.

What Makes You a Strong Fit

• 5+ years of paralegal experience in a law firm, financial institution, and/or in-house legal department.
• Substantial experience supporting commercial loan transactions.
• Strong familiarity with UCC searches and filings, title review and clearance, loan documentation, closings, and post-closing matters.
• Corporate and transactional practice experience, ideally with exposure to commercial lending, real estate finance, debt, credit, or other complex transaction work.
• Experience managing legal entities, corporate recordkeeping, registrations, renewals, and good-standing requirements.
• Strong writing, research, communication, critical thinking, organizational, and time-management skills.
• Ability to work independently and efficiently while collaborating closely with legal and business stakeholders.
• High attention to detail and comfort working on documents where accuracy, signature blocks, deadlines, and process discipline matter.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as Adobe Pro.
• Nice-to-haves include experience supporting loan servicing or asset management matters, real estate transactional experience, litigation support exposure, experience with DocuSign, monday.com, Confluence, Jira, and/or G Suite, and interest in helping a team refine templates, workflows, and legal operations processes as the business scales.