Paralegal

Paralegal

Requirements

• H.S. Diploma with 8 years’ experience working in a corporate legal department or law firm OR Associate’s Degree with 4 years’ experience working in a corporate legal department or law firm OR Bachelor’s Degree with experience working in a corporate legal department or law firm
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Responsibilities

• Support trademarks, domain names, and brand protection, conducting searches, reviewing packaging, handling trademark license agreements, and administering domain names.
• Support patent application docketing and prosecution, managing patent annuity and maintenance fee payments, and participating in Freedom-to-Operate (FTO) reviews and product development meetings.
• Support IP claims and litigation, including claim intake, investigation, coordinating litigation holds, discovery, and settlements.
• Conduct an initial case assessment to identify and obtain relevant documents.
• Coordinate, schedule and, where directed, interview custodians and witnesses to verify facts and identify relevant documents.
• Draft a chronology of relevant facts, documents, witnesses and events to assist assigned counsel.
• Gather, review, and organize relevant information for discovery and/or early case assessment and review.
• Prepare initial draft discovery responses to include identification of relevant documents, gathering of documents, and preparation of written responses.
• Act as a liaison between outside counsel, in-house counsel and internal business clients to manage the collection of documents and data, coordinate the delivery to outside counsel or agency, and conduct follow up as needed.
• Assist in the preparation of presentations and briefings to internal business clients.
• Support attorneys with related projects by conducting research, gathering key documents, and organizing files.
• Compile information and prepare various internal reports which may include forecasts, project updates, legal invoices, accounting and information from various other databases.
• Knowledge of Dennemeyer docketing and annuity payment systems is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 years’ experience drafting legal documents
• Paralegal certificate or State-designated paralegal certification
• Experience working in a corporate law department
• Retail Experience
• Demonstrated expertise in drafting presentations using PowerPoint