Overview
San Francisco, CA
Summary
Our client, an AmLaw50 law firm, has an opening for a Senior Paralegal within their Finance and Projects Group.
Responsibilities
Paralegal Responsibilities
- Apply broad set of knowledge and skills to effectively manage complex cases, demonstrating insight into legal procedures, project management, cost efficiencies, and collaborative skills; effectively identify, promote, and apply technologies to maximize efficiency in carrying out assignments.
- Manage complex cases; develop relationships, internally and externally, to gather data and information and to create networks of relevant resources and services.
- Manage multiple concurrent projects and prioritize assignments appropriately; determine and implement effective organizational and procedural methods.
- Review and analyze documents and data, perform procedural and factual research with understanding of client, matter, and business needs; provide insightful analysis, recommendations, and solutions to further case objectives.
- Create and maintain, or oversee maintenance of, files, documents, and data.
- Prepare and edit a range of written materials, including correspondence, memoranda, drafts of legal documents, and factual analyses.
- Oversee and provide guidance to other paralegals and temporary staff, as needed, through training and mentoring; provide feedback as appropriate on performance.
- Comply with administrative requirement to meet billable expectations; prepare and release timenotes on a daily basis; prepare and submit timecards on a weekly basis.
Finance and Projects Responsibilities
- Assist with entity formation, including checking corporate name availability, reserving corporate names, and preparing drafts of corporate organizational documents.
- Assist with ongoing operations of corporations and corporate records maintenance; prepare foreign qualifications, withdrawals, and dissolutions.
- Assist with and coordinate corporate closings, public offerings, acquisitions and mergers, and other corporate transactions.
- Assist with due diligence procedures, including online and factual searches, as well as organization of due diligence materials and working with virtual data rooms.
- Review, prepare and file UCC financing, continuation and termination statements; initiate and analyze UCC search results; research filing requirements in various states and calendar expiration dates for UCC filings.
- Prepare and file documents for ongoing corporate operations. Organize, review and maintain corporate records. May prepare stock option agreements and stock certificates and maintain stock ledgers and capitalization table.
- Proofread and redline documents.
- Conduct research and perform library and online searches.
- May assist with preparation of response to auditor letters.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Seven years of relevant experience in practice area or comparable work experience preferred.
- Ability to work independently and meet deadlines with minimal supervision.
- Strong sense of accountability, taking ownership over projects and responsibilities and resolving issues proactively.
- Ability to follow complex instructions with high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to work concurrently on a variety of projects, and work effectively under pressure.
- Ability to research, analyze, synthesize, and communicate large amounts of complex data.
- Excellent writing and communication skills.
- Ability to develop strong interpersonal relationships that further teamwork and client service objectives.
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office programs, including Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Flexibility to work overtime as needed to meet business and client needs.
Compensation
The salary range for this role is
#LI-Hybrid
Salary: $90,000 – $134,000
Date Active: 9.27.2023
Exempt/Not Exempt: Non-Exempt