Corporate Paralegal

Title: Corporate Paralegal Location: Houston, TX (hybrid onsite) Duration: 6-month contract This contractor position requires a highly skilled Legal Analyst who is knowledgeable in commercial transactions and exhibits strong leadership and influence skills. The ideal candidate is an experienced Legal Analyst who thrives in a challenging and fast-paced environment, is technology proficient, and has excellent communication and interpersonal skills. The ideal candidate should also excel at solving problems and exhibits a high-level of initiative. Responsibilities: This position will perform paralegal tasks under the guidance and direction of attorneys or legal analysts, including: • Prepare and negotiate a variety of agreements including, but not limited to the following: Products and/or Services Agreements, Sales Agreements, Research Agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Contract Amendments, all based on consultation with business partners and review by attorneys. • Engage with and provide recommendations (risk analysis) to business partners, contract administrators and attorneys on counterparty’s changes to legal terms in agreements. • Work closely with subject matter experts in tax, finance, intellectual property, information risk management, compliance and insurance to integrate guidance into negotiations and agreements. • Analyze and summarize documents for review by business partners and attorneys. • Perform legal due diligence and legal research. • Work closely with business partners and attorneys to resolve a variety of day-to-day issues and support a broad range of commercial transactions and/or projects. • Recommend, develop and implement process improvements and simplification of tasks. Required Qualifications: • Minimum of five years of experience as a paralegal. • Ability to effectively analyze and communicate legal issues and collaborate across broad functional and organizational lines (e.g., business partners, subject matter experts, attorneys and law professionals). • Strong organizational, analytical, proofreading, editing and research skills. • Ability to exercise good judgment and maintain-high quality performance with competing deadlines and priorities in a fast-paced work environment. • Strong communication (both oral and written), collaboration and interpersonal skills. • Self-starter who is adept at working in a team environment and partnering with management, business partners, in-house counsel, outside counsel and staff. • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and think independently on how to solve problems and offer solutions. • Demonstrate a growth mindset. • Ability to commit to contributing your perspective in a professional manner. • Demonstrated initiative, ownership and accountability. • Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite of tools and the ability to quickly learn new tools. Preferred Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree or paralegal certificate from an ABA-approved program. • Law degree from an ABA-accredited school. • Advanced skillset in Microsoft Office tools (i.e., Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, Forms, OneNote, Sway and Visio).