Role: Paralegal 

Status: contract or contract to hire 

Contract Duration: 3 months to start, full-time hours (M-F, 40 hrs a week) 

Location: Remote or Onsite (Atlanta, GA) 

 * three-month contract assignment to start, strong chance of extending, and a strong chance of converting to a permanent role.

** Ideally looking for someone in the Atlanta area to work onsite or hybrid but open to a remote worker with the right experience.

Company Overview 

They provide comprehensive private investment management services through its registered investment advisor subsidiaries to institutions, public and private pension plans, corporations, foundations, endowments, and high-net-worth individuals. Our investment professionals have experience across a wide range of asset classes and investment strategies, including Entertainment, Media & Technology, Real Estate, Credit & Special Situations, and Natural Resources Investments. 

Job Description 

The Paralegal Associate helps coordinate real estate transactions and operational contracts to ensure execution in a timely fashion.  He/she is the front-line communicator concerning document management, contract production, and real property-related legal issues.   

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:  

• Oversee and amend general real estate contracts and ensure timely execution. 
• Generate drafts of basic legal documents 
• Disseminate all legal requests and respond timely. 
• Work with outside counsel to handle items such as easement contracts, surveys, and invoicing. 
• Prepare timber-cutting contracts, hunting leases, and confidentiality agreements for execution. 
• Coordinate contract activity with Regional Foresters 
• Review certificates of insurance for contracts 
• Field emails/phone calls regarding temporary access licenses and hunting leases. 
• Act as an intermediary between outside consultants and the Legal Department 
• Establish and maintain internal systems and controls which verify the integrity of all systems, processes, and data, and enhance the Company's value. 
• Cross-train and serve as a backup for key legal processes during peak workloads and absences of other personnel. 
• File and mail executed contracts. 
• Prepare corporate authority documents for managed entities as necessary. 
• Respond to General Counsel and Assistant General Counsel requests as assigned.  
• Participate in a wide variety of multiple special legal projects. 

QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS  

• Paralegal Certificate or similar legal experience  
• Three to five years working in corporate and commercial real estate transactions.  
• Experience in reviewing titles and surveys,  
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.  

JOB COMPETENCIES  

• Deliberative Decision Making: gather, consider, and evaluate all relevant information to make logical conclusions before being moved to action. Ability to put aside personal biases and take an objective approach to make decisions based on data or other pertinent facts.  
• Compliance: ensure that they, team members, other employees, contractors, strategic partners, and other relevant stakeholders act in accordance with all pertinent rules, regulations, policies, and best practices and that behavior in the organization meets the company’s standards of conduct.  
• Analytical Thinking: Understand the underlying concepts in complex information, able to identify root causes of problems, and formulate solutions based on a synthesis of information.  
• Learning Agility: Ability to discern patterns in data, recognize relationships between concepts, and rapidly apply learning from one context to solve analogous problems in different contexts.  
• Information Seeking: curiosity and desire to know more about things, people, or issues. Ability to go beyond routine questions and dig for the exact information to resolve discrepancies.  
• Quality Focus: Ability to manage the efficiency, accuracy, completeness, and integrity of the work that they produce. They also recommend improvements in procedures to continually improve the quality of the work produced.  
• Time Management – Ability to manage multiple responsibilities by being organized and keeping on top of important time-sensitive tasks.