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Form of workCORPORATE PARALEGAL
Summary:
The Corporate paralegal will support General Counsel in administrative legal matters pertaining to the execution of the Classical Conversations product and brand strategies in the global marketplace. We provide a Christian-centered curriculum and training for homeschooling parents. Our heart as a company is to cultivate consistent, classical, Christian, homeschool community leaders.
The Corporate Paralegal joins this mission by proactively assisting General Counsel with issues impacting the company and mitigating associated risk, providing principled legal counsel to company shareholders and leaders, supporting operations, ensuring compliance, developing, and implementing overall and case-specific litigation strategy, cultivating networks of outside counsel support, and building efficiencies.
Minimum Requirements:
- Paralegal certificate or two years of experience as a corporate, transactional or litigation paralegal preferred
- Understanding of legal terminology, principles, and research methods
- Ability to organize, track, and handle recurring corporate filings
- Understanding of the Rules of Professional Responsibility for Lawyers and their application to in-house Counsel
- Familiarity with Classical Conversations business is preferred
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Intermediate competency in Microsoft Office applications, e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, TEAMS
- Demonstrated commitment to the preservation of Constitutional rights and first principles – particularly those impacting homeschooling families
Essential Functions:
Legal Support to the VP of General Counsel
- Handle all routine corporate filings
- Handle routing trademark filings and other routine IP matters
- Assist General Counsel in the enforcement of IP rights
- Prepare legal documents and external correspondence
- Review and format legal documents and external correspondence
- review and format Court filings and submissions to state and federal government agencies from time to time
- Perform legal research and assist in the oversight of legal interns performing research from time to time
- Perform investigative functions as needed under the supervision of General Counsel in authorized internal inquiries, including interviewing witnesses, preparing reports, obtaining documents, correspondence, and ESI.
- Assist in the development and implementation of the Legal budget, including monitoring and review of in-house counsel expenses and outside counsel invoices
Field-Team Contractor Administration
- Manage and administrate projects and processes associated with the execution of contracts and onboarding of independent contractors.
- Implement the licensing and contracting processes with respect to identified licensee and independent contractor candidates, including transmittal, execution, and filing of contracts and agreements.
- Request independent third-party background checks, review reports, and report status and results of reports to appropriate company personnel consistent with company policy for all licensees and independent contractors
- Coordinate and oversee contractor and licensee onboarding requirements, including completion of online child safety training and other requirements
- Oversee and participate in regular internal audits of background check report processing
Culture:
- Communicate and model the Classical Conversations Core Values:
- Grace in Speech
- Humility of Mind
- Integrity in Action
- Diligence in Work
- Excellence in Results
- Classical Conversations employees work together as teams to help fulfill the mission “To Know God and to Make Him Known.”
Details:
Title: Corporate Paralegal
Title: Corporate Paralegal
Reports to: VP, General Counsel
Department:Legal
Supervisory Responsibilities: No
FLSA Status: Salary, Exempt
Employment Status: Full-Time/Regular
Travel: This position will not require regular travel. However, travel may be required from time to time.
Work Location: Home Office 255 Air Tool Drive, Southern Pines, NC 28387
Work Environment: Air-conditioned workspace, enclosed to facilitate confidential attorney-client communications, with computer equipment, network, and drive access sufficient to ensure data protection and legal research tools appropriate for in-house counsel.
Physical Demands: Hearing, color vision, talking, sitting at a computer for long periods
