Paralegal - IT Contracts

Company: UST
Location: Aliso Viejo
Posted on: April 5, 2021

Job Description:

UST is a leading provider of platforms, digital innovation, artificial intelligence, and end-to-end IT services and solutions for Global 1000 companies. We are transforming corporations through deep domain expertise, knowledge-based ML platforms, as well as profound anthropological efforts to understand the end customer and design products and interactions that create delight. We are deeply committed to developing a comprehensive understanding of our client's problems and developing platforms to address them.
UST is looking to hire a Paralegal / Legal Administrator for our busy IT Contracts Team to provide administrative support and administrate Legal Matter Management solutions. Essential Duties and Responsibilities including but not limited to the following:

• Review drafts of various agreements as directed by attorneys and obtain feedback on draft agreements from stakeholders and provide consolidated comments to the relevant stakeholders
• Perform administrative duties including creating and preparing routing materials, proofreading, verifying, and editing material for extreme accuracy and clarity
• Perform research and support activities to assist attorneys
• Understand complex business-related legal documents
• Create or supervise the creation of abstracts of agreements
• Process the documents for signature and maintain executed agreements in the repository
• Provide responses to RFPs as they come in and maintain a database of responses
• Manage legal matter management tool both from the account and training perspective as well as implementation and follow-through
• Assist in the engagement of outside counsel and management of legal spend
• Support outside counsel in the establishment of other entities, intellectual property matter, litigation and discovery matter
• Coordinate and monitor compliance with records retention requirements of litigation hold rules
• Establish and main filing systems, classified, sorts, and files correspondence, records, media clips, and other documents
• Support Ethics Hotline by facilitating the process of assigning claims and managing reports to determine the effectiveness of the program
• Maintain accurate corporate secretary database for the company and all related joint ventures, LLCs, and subsidiaries, including their respective organizational documents, registered agents, governing bodies, ownership, and other pertinent data
• Maintain an accurate database of all pending and/or threatened litigation, including a summary of current status and applicable insurance coverage
• Utilizes advanced computer skills to prepare complex correspondence, reports, charts, tables, graphs, and forms
• Coordinate with all departments in order to monitor and affect compliance with all the federal, state, and local requirements for the corporation and its subsidiaries
• Collaborate across functional teams and foster a collaborative environment
• Work independently to manage timing and action plans for completing department functions and preparing correspondence, reports, and other documents ahead of need
• Work independently with minimal supervision
• Use discretion and judgment
• Organize workload to meet established priorities
• Handles confidential information professionally and consistent with legal and ethical policies
• Be available full-time at the corporate office in Aliso Viejo, CA
  Experience:
  • Require 5-8 years in compliance or legal area
  • Superior writing and oral communication skills
  • Excellent attention to detail with the ability to multi-task
  • Must be self-motivated and able to meet deadlines under pressure
  • Must have the ability to work as part of a team, as well as work independently
  • Work with diverse groups and reach consensus
  • Able to multi-task and work under pressure
  • Excellent time management skills
  • Able to adapt to new technology
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
  • People skills including good judgment and tact
  • Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Associate's degree or equivalent experience; Paralegal certification preferred

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