Senior Paralegal

Senior Paralegal

As a Senior Paralegal, you will be responsible for providing legal support for the US Legal team in a broad range of areas, including litigation support, forms management, legal correspondence, corporate governance, reporting, legal research, licensing, invoice processing, administrative duties, and other special projects as needed.

The position requires collaboration with paralegals and attorneys to coordinate and perform tasks proficiently with guidance from a legal operations manager. The ideal candidate will have a strong work ethic, proven detail-oriented skills and possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Day to Day

• Overall Support: Provide strategic and administrative support to US Legal, enhancing the department's overall effectiveness across legal procedures and operations.
• Litigation Support: Serve as primary support in managing defensive litigation matters, including drafting responses to subpoenas and complaints.
• Forms Management: Draft updates to existing forms and assist in the creation of new forms as needed; support document generation process for both front-end and back-end legal documents.
• Legal Correspondence: Draft legal correspondence including letters, memos and formal communications for attorneys and internal stakeholders.
• Corporate Governance: Maintain corporate minute books, prepare consents, resolutions, and internal approvals; support board meeting preparation, legal entity formation, and other organizational changes.
• Reporting: Serve as the primary person responsible for completing required reporting.
• Legal Research: Conduct thorough legal research on federal, state, and local laws and regulations and provide attorneys with clear, well-organized analyses to support compliance and strategic initiatives.
• Licensing: Serve as back-up support for drafting all state and local registrations, licenses, and regulatory examination documentation.
• Invoice Processing: Provide back-up support for processing legal invoices received on a regular basis.
• Administrative Duties: Serve as back-up support for general administration tasks within the Legal Department, including mail handling, check requests, signature requests, document maintenance, and travel coordination.
• Special Projects: Support special projects on an as-needed basis, including lease/loan file due diligence and program agreement review and maintenance.

All members enjoy

• Two working days per year volunteering for a local charity.
• Health and Wellness program including healthy food, free health checks, fun health & vitality activities.
• Flexible hours with possibility to work from home
• Career development opportunities: online learning, member development programs.
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Essentials:

• Bachelor's degree required; Paralegal certificate preferred.
• Minimum 5 to 7 years of paralegal work experience.
• Enhanced level of experience and knowledge to perform legal assignments with a high degree of autonomy.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (specifically Word, SharePoint, Excel & PowerPoint) and willingness to learn company specific software and related legal applications.
• Proven organizational skills and strong attention to detail.
• Time management and prioritization ability.
• Exceptional drafting, organizational, and communication skills.
• Must be able to maintain a high level of customer service (internal & external).
• Must be able to work in a team and have a positive and proactive attitude.
• High level of integrity, professionalism, intellectual curiosity, and willingness to grow.

Choose Wellbeing

DLL's wellbeing ambition is to educate, equip and empower members to build connections, manage their mental, emotional, physical and financial wellness and maintain balance between work and the other priorities that make up their lives.

Our four wellbeing categories are as follows:

• Connection – Build meaningful connections with other DLL members
• Health – Manage mental, emotional and physical health
• Finance – Provide learning opportunities to help members achieve personal financial health
• Lifestyle – Maintain balance between work and life priorities

These are the things that matter to our members and the wellbeing of our members matters to DLL!

Settling In

At DLL, we are many things. We are team members, family members, community member. We are members of society, members of different cultures and nationalities. Members of change. We each have different beliefs, different passions, different viewpoints, talents and interests. We come from different backgrounds, cultures, nationalities and histories.

But for all of our differences, we share one thing in common: each of us are members of DLL.

Our company was founded in the Netherlands. But today we are truly a multinational business. Our unique culture is rooted in higher collaboration, less hierarchy and an honest directness that enable us to integrate, ideate and innovate across country lines.

Many companies say they are European, American, Asian or Australian, at DLL we are all these places and more.

We are a cross-culture collaborative – an interconnected network – that comes together every single day with one goal in mind: Partnering for a better world.