Paralegal Employment and Contract

Join us at WinCo Foods, where we're more than just a grocery retailer - we're a growing family of over 140 supermarkets in 10 states with over 22,000 employee owners. Our purpose is to make the lives of our customers and employee owners better by offering the lowest possible prices to feed their families. Currently, WinCo is the second largest Employee-Owned company in the United States. With more than 500 millionaire employee-owners in our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Our benefits, including top-tier medical plans and tuition support set us apart. In your role, you'll be instrumental in making a real impact in the communities we serve, embodying our purpose every day.

Job Summary

Researches law, investigates facts, and prepares documents to assist attorney(s) by reviewing legal documents, tracks litigation matters and provides litigation support to managing attorney(s), drafts legal documents, and maintains contract lifecycle management system. Performs other related work.

Typical Duties and Responsibilities:

• Researches and analyzes law sources such as local codes, state statutes, federal regulations, recorded judicial decisions, legal articles, and other informational sources.
• Assists in company litigation, including compiling and preparing draft discovery responses, responding to subpoenas, preparing litigation holds, conducting ESI searches and preparing production responses, attending depositions, participating in witness interviews and witness preparation, and communicating with outside counsel.
• Reviews, analyzes, negotiates and manages contracts with third parties and a variety of other business agreements and related documents, like confidentiality, licensing, software and vendor agreements, services arrangements, bidding documents, and other commercial transactions.
• Reviews and researches issues related to business licensing compliance.
• Prepares quarterly litigation reports for insurance and Board reporting.
• Assists in identifying business and corporate law issues.
• Performs other clerical duties such as scheduling appointments, providing information to callers, composing and typing routine correspondence, and reading and routing incoming mail.
• Files correspondence and legal documents in office filing system.
• Performs other duties as needed.

Requirements

Education:

• Associates degree from an accredited college or university.

Experience:

• At least five (5) years of legal experience in an established law firm or in-house organization.
• Performing work which requires substantial expertise and experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts and other legal documents.
• Reading, analyzing, and interpreting professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations.
• Writing reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Effectively presenting information and responding to questions from groups of managers, company representatives, customers, and the general public.
• Demonstrating strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.) software.
• Demonstrating knowledge of human resources and related laws including the ability to provide sound and practical legal advice.
• Exhibiting excellent organizational, analytic and communications skills.
• Demonstrating integrity and unquestionable ethics.
• Displaying effective presentation capabilities and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrating a high level of maturity, presence, and discretion in handling of sensitive and confidential information.
• Demonstrating good knowledge of legal research methods, the court system and procedures, practicing legal ethics.
• Interpreting and analyzing judicial decisions and statutes.
• Applying facts to case law in analysis and briefs.
• Drafting legal documents and related correspondence.
• Using a tickler system and tracking documents on a computerized database.

Ability to:

• Consistently provide world-class customer service to internal and external customers.
• Work independently with minimal supervision while remaining aligned with programs and goals.
• Interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.
• Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Perform mathematical computations including rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Establish proactive, collaborative working relationships with organizational leadership.
• Be extremely self-motivated, take initiative and drive results.
• Be highly organized and detail-oriented.
• Develop and maintain cooperative working relationships with fellow employees and outside contacts, user groups and vendors.
• Write and speak clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings.
• Prioritize and perform a variety of simultaneous tasks (multi-tasking) in a fast-paced, multiple-priority environment, effectively manage time to ensure that deadlines are met.

Preferred Education, Experience and/or Credentials:

• Paralegal Certification
• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university.
• Experience with contract law in a law firm or corporate environment.
• Experience with litigation in a law firm or corporate environment.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of work performed by the employees assigned to this job. All employees must comply with company policies and applicable laws. The responsibilities, duties, and qualifications required of personnel may vary. #Indeed

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