Senior Paralegal – Legal Operations

Location: Onsite at 151 W 42nd St, New York, NY 10036, USA

Salary: Not specified

Company

Provides niche consulting services for architecture, engineering, and construction industries, focusing on high-performance buildings, specialty structures, energy efficiency, sustainability, code advisory, and construction advisory projects.

What you will do

• Review, organize, administer, and track client, vendor, consultant, subcontractor, and other business contracts.
• Monitor contractual obligations, renewals, deadlines, insurance requirements, indemnification, and liability provisions.
• Manage contract management, legal document management, intake, approval, execution, storage, reporting, and retention processes.
• Support employment matters, insurance claims, litigation, arbitration, disputes, discovery, subpoenas, and document preservation.
• Maintain legal calendars, trackers, dashboards, records, budgets, invoices, matter files, and outside counsel coordination.
• Improve legal workflows through technology, automation, standardized procedures, and AI-assisted or agentic processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• At least 5 years of relevant paralegal experience.
• Experience with contract review and administration, employment matters, insurance matters and claims, and litigation or disputes.
• Excellent written and oral communication, strong organization, attention to detail, and ability to manage competing priorities independently.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to handle confidential employee, personnel, legal, and business information with discretion.

Nice to have

• Experience in a professional services organization, particularly architecture, engineering, construction, real estate, or a similar firm.
• Experience with LinkSquares or another contract lifecycle or contract management system.
• Experience implementing legal operations workflows and using document management systems or electronic legal databases.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted or agentic tools and construction or professional services contracts.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position within the US Corporate Legal department.
• Work with attorneys, executives, managers, employees, clients, vendors, insurers, and outside counsel.
• Confidential information is handled according to professional standards and EEO guidelines.
• Equal Opportunity Employer.