Job Title: Legal Assistant - Corporate and Business Transactions

Salary: $56,000 to $91,500/year DOE

Location: Portland, OR (hybrid)

Direct Hire - Permanent

LHH seeks a motivated and detail-oriented Corporate Legal Assistant to join our client’s Business Department. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3+ years of experience as a corporate legal assistant supporting real estate, business transactions, and mergers and acquisitions. Experience with environmental regulatory agencies is a plus.

Typical Duties:

• Type, proofread format, run comparisons, and edit correspondence, contracts, and agreements.
• Manage and maintain calendars, including scheduling and coordinating appointments, meetings, and conference calls.
• Manage client billing, including reviewing and editing pre-bills, and sending bills to clients.
• Check in regularly with attorneys on project deadlines and prompt as needed.
• Assign tasks to other departments and staff as appropriate, follow up on status to ensure timely completion, and communicate clearly with all team members on status.
• Maintain and organize legal files and documents, including electronic files, paper files, and minute books.
• Coordinate transactional closings, including updating closing checklists and coordinating with clients and other legal professionals.
• Assist with corporate filings and entity formation, including filing articles of incorporation, annual reports, and other related documents.
• Communicate with clients and other legal professionals professionally and courteously, both verbally and in writing.
• Docket annual reminders.
• Assist other team members and attorneys as needed.

Ideal Candidate Qualifications:

• A minimum of 3+ years of experience as a corporate legal assistant supporting real estate, corporate and business transactions, and mergers and acquisitions. Experience in environmental regulatory work is preferred.
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, solve problems, and take initiative with minimal supervision.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Word and Outlook. Proficiency in Adobe Acrobat (or similar), DocuSign, Excel, and PowerPoint is required. Proficiency in BigHand is a plus.
• Excellent keyboarding, grammar, spelling, and proofreading skills.

Benefits:

• Generous Paid Time Off policy and 10 paid holidays
• Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts, EAP, and more
• Retirement contribution
• Commuter benefits - $100/month (parking or they can opt in for a trimet card)
• Tuition reimbursement

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

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The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

• The California Fair Chance Act
• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance