Corporate Paralegal - Contracts

Job Overview:

This position is responsible for supporting the legal department and staff attorneys related to all corporate legal matters. Areas of responsibility include evaluating legal/contractual documents for compliance with terms and conditions, legal correspondence with our customers, legal evaluations, litigation, and monitoring sensitive risk/financial related data for trending. This position reports to the VP Legal Services.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Support corporate attorneys in reviewing, negotiating and drafting i) service agreements ; ii) vendor agreements ; iii) real estate agreements ; and iv) other cash management agreements. Responsible for ensuring contract terms and conditions meet the company’s contracting requirements
• Frequent interaction with internal and external stakeholders, including customers, vendors, landlords, and others along with external counsel
• Routing legal notices and correspondence to the appropriate internal departments
• Limited contract review, revision and redlining (depending on experience)
• Performing document and contract management
• Processing contract amendments
• Litigation support
• Supporting negotiation of Non-Disclosure Agreements
• Responding to various legal requests from sales teams
• Support research regarding legal contracting and contract management tools
• Responding to internal requests for contractual templates
• Assist with contract dispute tracking and analysis
• Compliance
• Supporting review and processing of legal invoices
• Supporting with departmental project audits
• Auditing petty cash (receipting process)
• Licensing issues
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills and responsibilities:

• College degree with paralegal experience in handling corporate legal work, including real estate, contract negotiation, litigation, employment preferred
• Minimum of five years paralegal or contracts manager experience required
• Experience in either transportation or financial services industries a plus
• Excellent technical skills to include Word, Excel and PowerPoint required
• Experience in an environment that requires multi-tasking and strong organizational skills
• Proven written and oral communication skills