Paralegal

Position Summary:The Paralegal will support the department in day-to-day legal, administrative tasks including researching, gathering, organizing, and preparing various documents and legal files. This role will regularly meet with in-house attorneys and other legal professionals while serving as a central point of contact for relevant customers’ (i.e., human resources, finance, quality control, etc.) concerns and support.

Essential Function and Responsibilities:

• Prepares non-disclosure agreements and generates standard contracts.
• Creates and maintains contract status reports and updates department on timely basis.
• Maintains complete and accurate records of all contracts
• Recommends ideas and solutions to effectively streamline internal contract operations.
• Ensures compliance with Records Retention Policy and purges old files to maintain updated filing systems.
• Manage litigation and dispute resolution support, including document production, discovery, and communication with outside counsel.
• Track domestic and international legal claims, subpoenas, and pre-litigation matters.
• Coordinate responses to regulatory or governmental inquiries
• Prepares corporate resolutions, annual meeting minutes, maintains corporate book filings, and maintains up-to-date corporate structure diagram.
• Files annual reports for corporate entities.
• Maintains insurance policies in all markets, including policy renewals, claims management, and coordination with international brokers and carriers.
• Maintain certificates of insurance and verify appropriate coverage across business operations worldwide.
• Prepares draft rules for contest and sweepstakes
• Maintains up-to-date spreadsheet of frequent disclaimers and warnings.
• Assist with management of global IP portfolio, including trademark, copyright, and patent filings, renewals, and enforcement.
• Requires a high degree of organization, structure, initiative, accuracy, judgment and diplomacy.
• Interface well with all levels of management , particularly with senior executives, and act as a liaison between Legal Services and internal and external executives on various projects and tasks.
• Performs other duties as needed

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None, but may direct the work of others

Performs any other functions and duties assigned and necessary for the smooth and efficient operation of Market America.

Education & Experience:

• Three (3) to five (5) years of experience in paralegal role, ideally within an in-house legal department supporting an international company
• Demonstrated experience in time management including related tools and technologies
• Must have the ability to organize and coordinate multiple projects at once.
• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Legal, or similar discipline.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, life sciences, consumer products, or technology strongly preferred.
• Experience with international company.
• Experience with global data protection and privacy laws.
• Working knowledge of FDA and FTC laws.

Computer/Communication Skills:

• Proficient use of MS Office programs: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, required

• High energy level, comfortable performing multifaceted strategic projects in conjunction with day-to-day tactical activities
• Ability to get along and work with diverse personalities; tactful, mature, flexible
• Prioritizes and models good communication skills; follows up, timely responses, proactive and positive in approach
• Above moderate to high levels in reading comprehension, writing, and speaking in English; active listening; attention to detail

Travel:

• Occasional local travel as needed
• Annual conference participation and related travel

Physical Requirements and Work Environment:

• Intermittently lift, carry, pull and push up to ten (10) pounds.
• Normal office environment with little exposure to dust and weather conditions prevalent at the time (i.e., cold hot/humid)
• Routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, cameras, photocopiers, and filing cabinets
• Regularly required to talk, walk, stand, bend, twist, reach with hands and arms, stoop kneel and crouch
• Raise and lower an object from one level to the another, less than twenty (20) pounds.
• Visual acuity must be a minimum or 20/40 (corrected) and normal hand/eye coordination
• Normal or corrected hearing
• Must be able to perform in an office environment where ninety (90) percent of work is performed sitting.
• Occasional long or irregular hours of work

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Market America | SHOP.COM considers candidates regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.