Position Purpose

The person in this position provides professional legal support by assisting senior legal specialist and other supervising attorneys with a wide range of tasks including maintaining all international corporate legal entities in good standing, assisting with winding down or creating new international legal entities as necessary, and by working with international service providers and international corporate teams. The person will be expected to draft legal memoranda and corporate resolutions, and also review, edit and finalize documentation prepared by international service providers and international corporate team members and business partners for board and shareholder approval. More generally, the person will draft legal and business communication, participate in the administration and negotiation of various contracts, perform general file and database management, gather documents and respond to various legal requests, assist with regulatory filings, and respond to customer legal inquiries by involving the proper legal department personnel.

Major Tasks, Responsibilities and Key Accountabilities

• Under supervision, support the maintenance of the international corporate legal entities by managing corporate records, minute book records, org charts and by working with international service providers and international corporate teams
• Conduct legal research/research business problems and provide recommendations as to course of action; respond to clients legal inquiry under the supervision of counsel; review legal documents (e.g., corporate resolutions) to identify key issues
• General file/database management - maintain complete and accurate electronic and paper files for all assigned matters
• Gather relevant documents for corporate maintenance and other matters
• Negotiate settlement of smaller matters or negotiate smaller contracts/ amendments/statements of work
• Other tasks as assigned by supervisor

  
  Nature and Scope

  • Position reports to Attorney, Sr. Attorney, Counsel or Sr. Counsel
  • No direct reports

    
    Environment:

    • Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

      
      Travel:

      • Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.