Paralegal – Contracts & Legal Operations

Description

At Moss Adams, we champion authenticity. For us, that means fostering a culture of talented people who care—about you, about our clients, and about our communities. Here, you’ll work towards our mission of empowering others to embrace opportunity, growing as a leader along the way. Our firm’s size, middle-market clients, customized career paths, and supportive culture make this a reality. Join a values-driven firm where you’ll have fun while solving complex and interesting business challenges.

The Paralegal – Contracts & Legal Operations is a member of the Legal Department. The primary purpose of this role is to help the Legal Department optimize its processes, as well as assist with drafting, reviewing, and negotiating firm contracts. The Paralegal also will assist in managing contract requests, updating contract templates, and generally ensuring compliance with the legal, regulatory, professional, and internal standards applicable to Moss Adams. The Paralegal will be called upon to assist with special projects as needed and provide general support to the Legal Department.

Individuals who thrive at Moss Adams exhibit the following success skills – Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Emotional Intelligence, Executive Presence, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity, and Results Focus.

Responsibilities:

• Review, draft, and negotiate firm contracts under supervision of in-house attorneys including nondisclosure agreements, statements of work, client engagement agreements, request for proposals, business associate agreements, data protection agreements, and vendor agreements

• Complete questionnaires and forms including security questionnaires and onboarding forms issued by clients.

• Update standard contract templates as needed

• Work closely with Legal team members to assemble responses, create new/custom answers, and maintain standard language

• Manage a central playbook database and build a system for periodically reviewing and updating the database

• Manage legal intake process and support/responses to internal business clients

• Optimize and manage contract workflows and lifecycle including implementing new software tools such as legal request intake andCLM platform

• Improve legal operations by identifying, implementing, and managing new solutions, processes and procedures to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and productivity of the Legal Department including identifying software tools that may help automate manualprocesses

• Ensure compliance with the legal, regulatory, professional, and internal standards applicable to Moss Adams

• Identify legal and business risks and escalate appropriately

• Support the attorneys and others as needed on projects related to firm policies, procedures, and risk management

• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required

• Minimum of 3 years of related experience required; experience in a professional services environment preferred

• Paralegal Certification preferred

• Organizational and project management skills with ability to own and drive project schedule from start to finish, including managingpeers and individuals senior to you

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; able to effectively prioritize assignments and competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to articulate complex issues to others such as executives and senior management

• Strong ability to understand problems, think critically, and identify creative solutions

• Experience across the lifecycle of contracting issues at a large company including reviewing standard agreements against a playbook, handling templates and playbooks, and understanding key issues that require attorney review and input preferred

• Experience with the implementation of a CLM system or similarly complex platform preferred

• Self-directed professional with strong interpersonal skills

• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and SharePoint); proficiency with Smartsheet and other workflow tools a plus

• Ability to travel as needed, approximately 5%

Moss Adams is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Moss Adams complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact careers@mossadams.com.

Some local/state regulations require employers to disclose the pay range in job postings. While this is the typical range of pay for the position, actual pay may vary based on internal equity, knowledge, experience, skillset, and geographic location among other factors. It’s uncommon for an individual to be hired at the top end of the pay range. This position may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. For more information about our benefit offerings and other total rewards, visit our careers page.

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Compensation Range (Denver Market ONLY): Compensation range for California: $100,000 - $140,000Compensation range for Colorado: $95,000 - $120,000Compensation range for Washington: $95,000- $125,000Compensation range for Remote: $95,000 - $120,000

Primary Location Seattle, WA

Other Locations Napa, CA, Pasadena, CA, Woodland Hills, CA, San Diego, CA, Bellingham, WA, Denver, CO, Walnut Creek, CA, El Segundo, CA, San Francisco, CA, Everett, WA, Phoenix, AZ, Healdsburg, CA, Remote, Tri-Cities, WA, Santa Rosa, CA, Albuquerque, NM, Salinas, CA, Kansas City, KS, Salt Lake City, UT, Spokane, WA, Orange County, CA, Eugene, OR, Tacoma, WA, Wenatchee, WA, Medford, OR, Dallas, TX, Yakima, WA, Stockton, CA, Silicon Valley, CA, Sacramento, CA, Portland, OR, Fresno, CA, Houston, TX

Employee Status: Regular

Schedule: Full Time

Req ID: 27591