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Beacon Hill’s client, a national law firm, is seeking an experienced Paralegal to support attorneys across corporate, transactional, governance, and litigation matters.
Candidates should have prior corporate or transactional paralegal experience, along with litigation support experience, as the role is anticipated to be divided equally between corporate/transactional and litigation matters.
However, candidates with strong corporate or transactional paralegal experience who do not have litigation support experience are still encouraged to apply.
- Location: Onsite – Sacramento, CA 95814
- Parking: Parking is available in the building. During the temporary assignment, parking expenses are the candidate’s responsibility and are not covered by Beacon Hill or the client.
- Should the role convert to direct hire, the firm provides full-time employees with a $100/month contribution toward parking.
- Start: ASAP
- Duration: Open-ended temporary assignment with the potential for direct-hire conversion
- Schedule: 37.5 hours per week, Monday-Friday, 9 AM to 5:30 PM, with a 1-hour lunch break
- Pay: $53-$63/hour, depending on experience and alignment with the responsibilities
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of paralegal experience supporting both corporate/transactional and litigation matters
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Must meet California paralegal requirements
- Familiarity with document management platforms used in a law firm setting
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to balance competing priorities and deadlines while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail
- Experience supporting nonprofit organizations or health care clients is a plus, but not required
- Experience providing office or administrative support in addition to paralegal responsibilities is a plus, but not required
Key responsibilities:
Corporate
- Prepare and file entity formation, qualification, amendment, merger, and dissolution documents with state agencies
- Maintain corporate records, minute books, and entity management databases, and track annual report and other compliance deadlines
- Draft board member resolutions, consents, minutes, bylaws, and other governance documents
- Assist with due diligence, including reviewing documents, preparing diligence summaries, and ordering UCC, lien, litigation, and good standing searches
- Prepare closing checklists, signature packets, and closing binders, and coordinate document execution
- Prepare, proofread, run comparisons on, and edit agreements, correspondence, memoranda, and other legal documents under tight deadlines
Litigation
- Manage a portfolio of approximately 100 workers’ compensation lien matters, including intake from the client, organizing files, maintaining a list of action items, drafting, serving, and filing pleadings, and tracking the status of cases (Familiarity with workers’ compensation is not required)
- Assist attorneys with drafting meet and confer letters and other correspondence, discovery requests and responses, motions, and other pleadings; review and ensure compliance with court rules and procedures; and finalize, serve, and e-file court filings
- Assist with document production, including organizing, reviewing, Bates-stamping, creating production logs, and maintaining electronic documents exchanged between parties using case management software
- Assist with trial preparation, including electronic and hard copy exhibits, motions in limine, and pre-and post-trial briefing
- Maintain litigation calendars and track court deadlines, filing dates, and other important case milestones
- Communicate and meet regularly with attorneys regarding project status, deadlines, and assignment needs
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