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Paralegal

$115k - $130k

ACCO Brands

Paralegal

The Paralegal provides high-quality legal, governance, securities, employment, cybersecurity, and administrative support to the attorney responsible for governance, securities, and employment law. The Paralegal will support Board of Directors and committee processes, corporate governance records, securities filings, employment law matters, contract and matter tracking, legal entity management, and coordination with internal stakeholders and external partners. The role requires strong attention to detail, discretion, sound judgment, excellent organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced public company environment.

Responsibilities include:

  • Governance and Board Support
  • Securities Law and Public Company Reporting
  • Legal Operations, Matter Management, and Administrative Support

Qualifications:

  • Juris Doctor or Paralegal Degree
  • 5+ years of legal or paralegal, corporate legal, governance, securities, employment, or legal operations experience preferred
  • Experience supporting public company governance, Board processes, SEC filings, proxy season, insider reporting, or corporate records strongly preferred
  • Experience supporting Board and committee materials, corporate records, entity management, officer and director records, subsidiary maintenance, consents, resolutions, certificates, and related documentation
  • Experience assisting with SEC filings, disclosure calendars, Section 16 reporting, insider lists, proxy materials, annual meeting support, shareholder communications, or public company reporting processes preferred.
  • Experience supporting employment law matters, investigations, litigation, agency charges, separation agreements, HR Policies, employee relations documentation or employment templates preferred.
  • Strong ability to organize contracts, legal files, corporate records, matter trackers, templates, and legal documentation.
  • Ability to manage deadlines, competing priorities, calendars, deliverables, filings, signatures, and follow-up items with accuracy and urgency.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact professionally with executives, attorneys, HR, Finance, IT, Privacy, Procurement, Investor Relations, outside counsel, and other stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated ability to handle sensitive, confidential, privileged, employee, executive, Board, investor, cybersecurity, and privacy information with discretion.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications required.
  • Experience with legal matter management, entity management, contract management, e-billing, Board portal, document management, or filing systems preferred.

Salary Range: $115,000 - $130,000/annually. Compensation is commensurate with experience and geographical location.

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