Job Description
We are looking for a Legal Operations & Risk Management Specialist to join our Legal Team. This individual will have a proactive mindset with a bias towards action and an eagerness to step outside of their comfort zone to affect changes big and small. The Legal Operations & Risk Management Specialist will be an enthusiastic self-starter that values building relationships and working closely with individuals across the organization. In this role, you will take the lead on developing, implementing, supporting, and improving several processes, practices and systems that are (or will be) designed to improve our team’s efficiency, effectiveness, cost management and overall performance. This role will ultimately serve as the operational backbone of the Legal Team and champion cross-functional efforts to provide legal and compliance support across the company.
Essential Duties:
- Maintain Legal Matter management system:
- Assist with creation and generation of reports.
- Ensure matters and documents are classified and organized correctly.
- Provide support on legal projects or projects that require legal support.
- Review Legal spending and budgeting.
- Provide support to Outside Counsel management.
- Track spending, billing practices and general Counsel management.
- Provide process improvements within legal team operations.
- Creating master agreements
- General assistance with M&A; due diligence collection, organization, and APA negotiation
- Legal Governance
- Entity Management
- Assist tax department with management
- Managing insurance applications, supporting documentation, and reports
- Insurance vendor management
- Assist to receive, review, negotiate, and execute NDA’s as needed.
- Other duties as assigned.
Position Qualification Requirements: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The following requirements are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Core Competencies
- Must have exceptional oral (phone), written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Basic knowledge of legal and compliance operations
- Individual must be highly organized with ability to accurately document information.
- Present a positive image of company to fellow employees, external contacts, the general public.
Work Experience
- 1-3+ years’ work experience required (Experienced non-managerial)
Education, Certificates, Licenses, or Designations
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience required.
- Licensed Notary Public (Preferred)
Specific Skills
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
- Legal Files
- ISN
- Avetta
- Adobe Sign
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