Corporate Paralegal
Holland & Knight LLP
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Miami • Florida • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Assist attorneys and practice group in various types of legal matters and provide assistance in preparing legal documents
- Research and compile data; prepare drafts of documents
- Maintain responsibility for files, calendars and meetings
- Gather, organize, summarize and index documents from various sources
- Attendance at and participation in meetings and/or closings
- Preparation of documents and correspondence
- Special projects and additional duties as assigned
- Prepare and file UCC financing statements including amendments and terminations and run lien searches in preparation for upcoming closings
- Draft IRS Forms for obtaining employer identification numbers and other IRS forms as required
- Form and manage domestic and international subsidiaries, including maintenance of corporate books and records, annual reports/filings
- Draft organizational documents and prepare and issue stock / membership certificates
- Registration and upkeep of domestic and foreign entities with US state and offshore registration authorities
- Maintain and support relationship with vendors that service our clients’ corporate entities (e.g., Trident, CT Corporation, CSC, Corporate Creations, Cogency Global)
- Prepare and draft corporate documents under attorney supervision
Requirements
- 5-10 years’ experience in related area
- Organizational skills to work independently and meet deadlines in an atmosphere of frequent interruptions
- Organizational skills to maintain daily accounting of time records and input timesheets into the system directly
- Communication skills to interact with all levels of internal staff, attorneys and management and external clients of the firm
- Analytical and critical thinking skills sufficient to make decisions regarding daily work
- Time management skills to handle multiple tasks efficiently and accurately
- Excel experience required
- Bilingual in English and Spanish required
- Notary Public required
- Bachelor's Degree (Paralegal Certification a plus)
- Experience with registration and upkeep of domestic and foreign entities with US state and offshore registration authorities
- Experience preparing and filing UCC financing statements, amendments, and terminations; running lien searches
- Experience drafting IRS Forms for obtaining employer identification numbers and other IRS forms
- Experience forming and managing domestic and international subsidiaries, maintaining corporate books and records, and preparing annual reports/filings
Benefits
- comprehensive medical (PPO and HDHPs)
- dental and vision plans including coverage for domestic partners
- life and AD&D insurance
- short and long term disability insurance
- tax-advantaged accounts for health care expenses, including FSAs and HSAs
- FSAs for dependent care
- health advocacy services
- behavioral health and counseling resources for all family members
- 401(k)
- profit sharing
- pre-tax transit and parking program
- backup dependent care
- senior care planning support
- resources for individuals with development disabilities and their caregivers
- paid holidays and other paid time off, including paid leave for new parents
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
UCC financing statementsIRS Formscorporate documentscorporate booksannual reportsforeign entity registrationdomestic entity registrationdata researchdocument draftingtime management
Soft skills
organizational skillscommunication skillsanalytical skillscritical thinkingtime managementindependent workinterpersonal skills
Certifications
Notary PublicBachelor's DegreeParalegal Certification