Senior Paralegal (Huntington Beach)

Job Description

Job Description

Senior Contracts Paralegal

Location: Huntington Beach, CA
Schedule: Hybrid, 3 days onsite
Salary: $90,000 to $115,000 annually, depending on experience
Employment Type: Full-time, exempt
Parking: Provided

LHH is seeking a Senior Contracts Paralegal for a confidential in-house opportunity with a growing organization in Huntington Beach. This position will support contract management, legal operations, corporate governance, and litigation-related matters.

The ideal candidate is an independent, proactive professional who can assess outstanding work, establish priorities, improve processes, and move legal matters through completion with limited supervision.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and manage business contracts using approved templates.
• Support contract lifecycle management implementation, including contract inventory, migration, and organization.
• Track contract approvals, obligations, renewals, deadlines, and open action items.
• Help develop contract templates, playbooks, workflows, and tracking processes.
• Support litigation, arbitration, employment, and other legal matters.
• Triage subpoenas and coordinate document collection for discovery.
• Assist with corporate governance documents, entity records, and Secretary of State filings.
• Conduct legal research and support regulatory, compliance, audit, investigation, and privacy matters.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders and outside counsel.
• Identify process gaps and help build scalable legal department procedures.
• Manage multiple priorities while protecting sensitive and confidential information.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Paralegal certificate required.
• Senior-level paralegal experience with a strong contracts focus.
• Contract drafting and lifecycle-management experience.
• Experience managing legal matters, deadlines, and competing priorities independently.
• Familiarity with litigation workflows and discovery-document collection.
• Strong drafting, organizational, project-management, and communication skills.
• Sound judgment and ability to work with limited supervision.

Preferred Experience

• In-house legal department experience.
• Healthcare or regulated-industry experience.
• CLM implementation or contract-migration experience.
• Corporate governance and entity-filing experience.
• Experience with Ironclad, Jira, Monday.com, or comparable platforms.

Benefits

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; life and disability insurance; employee assistance program; 401(k) with employer match; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; and FSA or HSA options.

Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply for confidential consideration.

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The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

• The California Fair Chance Act

• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance

• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers

• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Pay Details: $90,000.00 to $115,000.00 per year

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Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Military connected talent encouraged to apply

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The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

• The California Fair Chance Act
• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

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