Paralegal

Title: Paralegal
Location: DC Metro Area
Target Start Date:ASAP
Type: Contract/ Contract to Hire
Pay Rate: DOE

We are seeking an experienced Contract Paralegal to support a high-volume commercial contracting practice within a corporate legal department. Working under the supervision of commercial transactions attorneys, this individual will independently manage assignments, apply established contracting guidelines, communicate effectively with legal and business stakeholders, and exercise sound judgment regarding when to escalate legal or procedural issues.

This role will provide operational support while improving the speed, consistency, and quality of contract intake, review, processing, execution, and recordkeeping.

The ideal candidate will have strong commercial contracting experience, proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications, and the ability to leverage approved artificial intelligence and automation tools to improve legal workflows. This individual will collaborate closely with attorneys, paralegals, procurement teams, and business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Support business users and legal counsel with the end-to-end processing of commercial agreements within a contract management system, including workflow monitoring, signature coordination, status updates, and contract record maintenance.

• Conduct initial reviews of routine agreements using approved templates, playbooks, fallback positions, and escalation criteria. Identify deviations and escalate substantive legal issues to supervising attorneys.

• Draft and revise routine contract documents, including nondisclosure agreements (NDAs), amendments, order forms, exhibits, schedules, notices, and related correspondence for attorney review and approval.

• Proofread, edit, format, compare, and finalize contracts and legal documents through execution, ensuring accuracy, consistency, version control, and document integrity.

• Coordinate with attorneys, internal business partners, vendors, procurement personnel, and other stakeholders to obtain information, track outstanding items, and facilitate timely contract execution.

• Support contract negotiations under attorney supervision, including tracking negotiation issues and incorporating approved revisions.

• Leverage approved AI-enabled and automation tools to support document comparison, issue identification, clause extraction, summarization, drafting, and workflow management while maintaining confidentiality and validating outputs.

• Maintain contract templates, clause libraries, review checklists, playbooks, knowledge resources, and standard operating procedures.

• Assist with reporting and quality-control activities, including identifying incomplete records, aging matters, workflow bottlenecks, recurring negotiation issues, and process improvement opportunities.

• Provide support for trademark, copyright, and other intellectual property matters as needed.

• Conduct legal and factual research related to commercial transactions, corporate law, intellectual property, and related matters, preparing summaries for attorney review.

• Collaborate effectively with legal team members and business stakeholders in both virtual and in-person environments.

• Perform additional legal and administrative responsibilities as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, paralegal certificate, or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.

• Minimum of five years of legal office experience as a paralegal or contracts professional, including substantial experience supporting commercial transactions.

• Demonstrated experience reviewing, drafting, and processing commercial agreements.

• Excellent writing, editing, proofreading, organizational, and professional communication skills.

• Ability to independently manage multiple assignments, meet deadlines, follow established contract review guidelines, maintain accurate records, and escalate issues appropriately.

• Strong attention to detail and experience working in a process-oriented, technology-enabled legal environment.

• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications, including Word, Outlook, Excel, Teams, and SharePoint.

• Practical experience using AI tools in a professional environment, including effective prompt development, output validation, recognition of limitations, and adherence to confidentiality, privacy, security, and legal requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Icertis Contract Intelligence or another enterprise contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform.

• Experience working with contract templates, clause libraries, negotiation playbooks, and established escalation protocols.

• Background supporting a high-volume in-house commercial legal department or procurement contracting function.

• Familiarity with trademark, copyright, and intellectual property matters.

• Experience leveraging generative AI, contract analytics, document comparison, or workflow automation tools within a legal or contracting environment.

Work Environment

This position offers a hybrid work arrangement, with an expectation of working onsite approximately two days per week in Tysons, VA; Rockville, MD; or Washington, DC.

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