Sr. Paralegal, Litigation
Qcells North America · Irvine, CA · 3 wk ago
On-siteLegalFull-time
Responsibilities
- Check and acknowledge the Service of Processes and send an acknowledgement letter promptly.
- Check and liaise between the business teams and legal to verify facts for demand letters, complaints, and other legal filings against installers and other residential business partners.
- Prepare case analysis, identify issues, omissions, and discrepancies.
- Prepare and draft demand letters, outline and narrative summaries, and chronologies of installer risk records of events under an Attorney’s supervision.
- Manage, update and assist with case spreadsheet/database of legal claims, complaints, and other legal filings related to each business.
- Support in-house counsels with providing overall administrative support as necessary including but not limited to: preparing various types of letters, claims, schedules, invoices, status reports, and supporting documents in a timely manner, interfacing with vendors/service providers and cross-functional teams to process invoices and expenses for in-house counsels, setting-up meetings, and other administrative duties and ad-hoc projects as needed.
- Review NDAs and any other agreements as necessary (e.g. PSAs, SOWs, amendments, assignments, estoppels) assigned under the direction of either the Director of Legal Ops and Contracts and/or an Attorney.
- Contract/version control management – Manage and maintain/version control TPO contracts (e.g. drafts, clean, and redlined versions) and manage the version control tracker in a timely manner.
- Backup other team members within Legal Ops as necessary.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 5 - 7+ years of experience or equivalent in-house legal department or law firm experience.
- Advance understanding and knowledge of litigation processes and ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise sound judgment.
- Excellent organizational, verbal, interpersonal, written communication, and time management skills.
- Agile and effective communicator with clear oral and written explanations.
- Proactive and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment.
- Confident and able to interact with people at all levels of the organization.
- Dependable and trustworthy.
- Computer and tech savvy. Advanced/Expert level in MS Office Suite, G-Suite, Salesforce, and Adobe Pro (pdf), AdobeSign/DocuSign.
- Enjoy learning using new software or any type of computer system (e.g. Agiloft).