Legal Assistant
Description
- Providing the attorneys with transactional support, including preparing and revising correspondence, agreements, and other legal documentation, as well as performing legal and factual research.
- Coordinating and managing the contract management process from intake to execution to renewal/expiration.
- Assisting with the development and updating of contract forms/templates and the maintenance of files of all contracts including creation of deal binders and agreement abstracts.
- Researching, comparing, and contrasting internal/external contracts, terms and conditions, and substantive additions to ensure legal consistency, accuracy, and completeness.
- Managing incoming requests for legal review or work from internal clients.
- Providing administrative support to the department by answering phones, maintaining calendars, scheduling meetings and coordinating travel.
- Preparing and submitting expense reports for attorneys.
- Processing legal and other invoices
- Assisting department with other projects as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent.
- Prior paralegal / legal assistant experience in a corporate legal department preferred.
- Experience interacting with senior level management.
- Proven proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint and Word and the ability to learn and utilize other software.
- Familiarity with Salesforce preferred.
- Ability to maintain the highest level of confidentiality.
- Ability to work well with others in a collaborative, team environment.
- Ability to think analytically, take direction well, take initiative, and work independently and proactively.
- Strong organizational and administrative skills with excellent attention to details and ability to prioritize a high-volume workload.
Benefits & Perks
- A choice of either network only provider medical and dental plans or more flexible medical and dental plans where you can see providers in or out-of-network
- Vision plan that offers both in and out- of network provider options
- Immediate eligibility for 401(k) participation with an employer provided match
- An additional Employer paid retirement savings program regardless of your participation in the 401(k) Plan
- Generous time-off policy
- Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts
- Short term disability Insurance / salary continuation and Long term disability insurance
- Company provided basic life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Supplemental and dependent life insurance options
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The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is a professional membership organization of songwriters, composers and music publishers of every kind of music. ASCAP's mission is to license and promote the music of its members and foreign affiliates, obtain fair compensation for the public performance of their works and to distribute the royalties that it collects based upon those performances. ASCAP members write the world's best-loved music and ASCAP has pioneered the efficient licensing of that music to hundreds of thousands of enterprises who use it to add value to their business - from bars, restaurants and retail, to radio, TV and cable, to Internet, mobile services and more. The ASCAP license offers an efficient solution for businesses to legally perform ASCAP music while respecting the right of songwriters and composers to be paid fairly. With over 650,000 members representing more than 11.5 million copyrighted works, ASCAP is the worldwide leader in performance royalties, service and advocacy for songwriters and composers, and the only American performing rights organization (PRO) owned and governed by its writer and publisher members.