Corporate Paralegal

Description

Position Summary

Our guests seek luxury, value, and world-class service. As a Corporate Paralegal , you will assist our corporate attorney with Corporate Governance, Litigation, and Employment matters and will grow into a role with greater responsibility as the department continues to expand. You will impact whether we become our guest’s favorite place to purchase, lease, or service their vehicle.

Responsibilities:

• Support Corporate Attorney with transactional documents, deadlines, correspondence, and research.
• Complete new corporate entity filings, research requirements, ensure documents are deposited in repository and properly indexed and cataloged. 
• Track organizational renewal, compliance, and end dates; file necessary renewals for licenses, permits, entity renewals, and other renewals.
• Maintain and update matter files and matter tracking system, including correspondence, revisioning and approval of correspondence. 
• Research legal, litigation, employment, and other issues and prepare analysis for presentation to Corporate Attorney.
• Monitor sensitive and escalated general liability, employment, and other cases for timely responses and deadlines.
• Manage vendor, supplier, and outside counsel performance in relation to organizational, acquisition, and transactional agreements. 
• Familiarity with contractual documents and evaluation of company’s contractual/risk exposure, satisfaction of contractual requirements and adherence to company policies is strong plus. 
• Conduct legal research as needed, at the direction of the corporate attorney.
• Provide exceptional support for Legal and Executive teams regarding organizational structure and transactional work. 

Skills & Qualifications:

• Demonstrating a high “HQ” (Hospitality Quotient) consisting of kindness & optimism, intellectual curiosity, work ethic, empathy, self-awareness, and integrity. 
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred with major course work in Business Administration, Law, Paralegal Studies, or Finance.
• Minimum of 5 years of increasingly responsible professional level experience.
• Ability to multitask and efficiently and effectively prioritize tasks to meet critical deadlines.
• Extreme attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy.
• Expertise in organization and time management
• Provide hospitality-obsessed level of service to all internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain effective and collaborative working relationships.
• Ability to maintain absolute integrity and confidentiality around highly sensitive information.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office suite (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint) 

Benefits of Working at Swickard: 

• Ongoing training and support
• Opportunities for continued personal and professional growth.
• We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and value diversity and belonging at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristics protected by law.

Competitive benefits package:

• Insurance: medical, dental, vision, life and pet insurance
• Optional disability coverage
• 401k plan
• Paid Holidays
• PTO

About Us

• We were founded in 2014 by Jeff Swickard in Wilsonville, OR. 
• We’re a hospitality company that happens to sell cars, parts, and service. 
• We are a team. Everyone plays a role in our success. 
• Culture: Our culture is defined by a few core principles: We want to be our customers’ favorite place to purchase, lease, or service their vehicle and we want to be your favorite place to work! 
• Highline Brands: Swickard has positioned itself as a leader in highline brands such as Mercedes Benz, BMW, Audi, Volvo, Lexus, Porsche, Land Rover, and more.
• We are consistently ranked as one of the fastest growing dealership groups in the US by Automotive News. 

Most people have a stressful experience buying or servicing their car. It shouldn’t be that way. We’re looking for people as crazy as we are about revolutionizing the car-buying experience and it starts with hospitality. Hospitality isn’t just what we do, it’s who we are. We need exceptionally talented individuals to join our mission and embark on a challenging, rewarding career. Do you have what it takes? 

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