Paralegal L1, Contracts Administrator

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The Paralegal/Contracts Administrator is an experienced professional with relevant real estate and construction experience who provides a broad range of legal support and is responsible for contract administration functions necessary to ensure the work of the Legal Department runs smoothly, effectively and contributes to the overall productivity of the team. This position handles information of a highly confidential and critical nature and is focused on contract management functions including tracking deliverables; organization and management of contracts; creation and management of contract templates; managing calendars, meetings, and schedules; etc. Additionally, the Paralegal/Contracts Administrator is the primary point of contact for legal contracting needs from the Real Estate and Facilities (including real estate acquisition), Critical Facilities, Engineering, Construction, and Sales Departments. This individual must possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills to interact with all levels of the company, as well as external vendors, clients, and outside counsel with oversight by the Legal Manager – Paralegal.

What you'll be doing

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Day to day management of Contract Lifecycle Management software.

• Analyzing title documents and legal descriptions of property.

• Assisting with title and escrow process, reviewing documents and making recommendations

• Review of incoming contracts to determine whether legal review is required under existing policies and procedures.

• Organizes all incoming contracts and correspondence, including improvement of existing file system.

• Ensures all contracts are properly screened, signed and stored.

• Review of all final contracts for conformity with a checklist of key items to ensure accuracy, and obtain corrections if needed.

• Revision of designated terms to conform to required standards, such as proper naming, formatting, dates of execution.

• Calendaring of key deadlines from executed contracts with appropriate departments and/ or in appropriate systems.

• Compose and prepare legal correspondence, under the supervision of corporate counsel.

• Gather and prepare information needed for meetings with internal managers or external sources.

• Maintain, monitor, and update Salesforce and DocuSign templates and forms.

• Periodic audit of Legal template use by other departments.

• Track all Real Estate & Facilities, Critical Facilities Engineering, Construction, and Sales requests, follow up with legal team …