Paralegal

Job Description

Job Description

Durst Profile :

Since 1915, The Durst Organization has been a family-run business dedicated to the principles of innovation, integrity, community, and sustainability. We develop, build, own, and manage premier office towers and residential buildings that set new standards in environmental responsibility and user efficiency. Our enduring relationships with our tenants and partners are critical to our success and have made us generations of builders, building for generations. We build, own, and operate many of the world's most innovative and efficient buildings. We create value for our tenants and partners by developing sustainable residential and commercial properties in which people live, work, and thrive.

Overview :

Reporting to the Senior Associate Corporate Counsel of The Durst Organization, the Paralegal is entrusted with confidential support to the Legal department, including record keeping, administration of real estate-related contracts, calendar management and invoice processing. Organizational skills, professional judgment, tact, flexibility, timeliness, attention to detail and the ability to multi-task, while prioritizing a complex workload, are expected.

This role requires both substantive and administrative duties, including review of legal and corporate documents, as well as digitization, maintenance, and retention of documents.

Responsibilities :

• Contract management and support for standard corporate agreements, including preparation, review, revision and assessment of a variety of legal documents, such as Purchase Orders, Work Orders, Project Authorizations, Non-Disclosure Agreements and Bicycle Access Agreements.
• Support commercial lease administration efforts, e.g., by tracking tenant letters of credit, reviewing new lease encumbrances, reviewing estoppel certificates and responding to questions from the Commercial Leasing department.
• Provide support to internal departments in preparation and review of contracts.
• Manage attorneys' calendars, professional communication and corporate correspondence by answering calls, taking messages or forwarding to the appropriate party, typing correspondence and reviewing and processing incoming mail.
• Proactively manage deadlines for the Legal department and keep track of due dates to ensure documents and projects are addressed in a timely manner.
• Invoice management, including submitting and tracking of approval workflow and payment status.
• Ensure accurate maintenance of digital and paper documents and databases for efficient retrieval and disposition.
• Obtain relevant information from other organizations or agencies, e.g., entity searches using appropriate state governmental agencies, NYS Unified Court searches to verify active cases, and call appropriate courts to confirm current active cases.
• Manage the process of signing and diligently tracking progress of legal documents.
• Record, oversee and monitor documents and items being placed in and removed from storage as required by company retention policy.
• Develop and maintain Legal department tools to streamline and improve new or existing practices.
• Support the creation and maintenance of standard operating procedures and trackers for efficient workflow.
• Digitize and make available company-wide documents to Executive Management and internal departments.
• Collaborate with business partners across the organization and outside counsel as necessary.
• Perform all other projects and duties as required and assigned.

Qualifications :

Salary Range : $90,000.00 - $110,000.00 (annual)

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