Senior Real Estate & Corporate Paralegal

Job Description

Job Description

About BRIDGE Housing

BRIDGE Housing strengthens communities by developing, owning, and managing high-quality, affordable homes for working families and seniors. BRIDGE’s portfolio of housing currently consists of 140 properties throughout California, Washington, and Oregon. Based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, few housing development organizations have achieved the success and stature of BRIDGE Housing Corporation. Founded in 1983 utilizing an anonymous donation, BRIDGE today has become a leading affordable housing development partner.

Summary

The Senior Real Estate & Corporate Paralegal supports the EVP of General Counsel and legal team with a broad range of real estate, corporate, governance, litigation, and legal operations work. This role is ideal for a highly organized, detail-oriented paralegal with strong real estate law firm training who can help drive productivity, keep matters moving, and improve legal document organization and systems. Real estate closing experience, corporate entity management, litigation tracking, and strong follow-through with outside counsel and internal stakeholders will be important to success in this role. This is a hybrid role requiring a 4 day in-office schedule.

Responsibilities

• Provide paralegal support under the supervision of General Counsel.
• Assist with real estate transactions, including preparation and coordination of closing checklists, signature packets, certificates, resolutions, consents, estoppels, and title and escrow deliverables.
• Assemble, organize, and maintain diligence materials, transaction files, and closing binders.
• Coordinate with outside counsel, title and escrow companies, counterparties, and internal stakeholders to keep transactions and legal matters on track.
• Assist with corporate entity formation, registration, maintenance, and dissolution, including business licenses, EIN applications, DBAs, annual and biennial filings, and registered agent updates.
• Prepare, proofread, and maintain board resolutions, written consents, minutes, agendas, and related governance materials.
• Assist with tracking and management of litigation, including maintenance of litigation trackers, follow-up with outside attorneys, and organization of related files and status updates.
• Draft, revise, and manage NDAs, consulting contracts, and other simple agreements based on standard forms.
• Track legal fee costs and assist with legal department records and reporting.
• Assist with reorganization of legal files and document storage, including legacy files in SharePoint and other systems, and help improve naming conventions, searchability, and document retention practices.
• Prepare correspondence and provide other legal and administrative support as requested by General Counsel.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree or paralegal certificate
• 4+ years of relevant experience
• Strong experience supporting real estate transactions and closings
• Experience with corporate entity formation, maintenance, and governance documents
• Strong sense of judgment, discretion, and confidentiality
• Excellent communication, writing, organization, and follow-up skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities with strong attention to detail
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and document management systems

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree
• Previous experience as a paralegal in a law firm or in-house legal department
• Real estate law firm background strongly preferred
• Experience tracking litigation and working with outside counsel
• Experience improving document systems, records organization, or SharePoint file structures
• California Notary Public commission, or willingness to obtain
• Familiarity with Diligent or similar software

BRIDGE Housing is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment for our diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability. Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest records.

BRIDGE qualifies the contents of all information candidates provide in their resume and any offer of employment is contingent upon (a) a criminal background check, (b) verification of all information provided, including past employment, correct hire and separation dates, education, degree, or other credentials, and (c) three satisfactory employment references.

In the case of application involves fraud or misrepresentation, BRIDGE may in its discretion rescind the job offer. Nothing in this policy changes the at-will nature of employment, and BRIDGE may withdraw an offer of employment or terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without reason.