[Hiring] Senior Paralegal @Providence

Role Description

This position will provide professional legal support to the Department of Legal Affairs (“DLA”) attorneys generally and/or in a specific practice area or across practice areas. This position will be responsible for the coordination, provision, and completion of various legal support tasks as outlined below or requested by a supervising attorney in support of Providence St. Joseph Health’s various operations within its operating footprint.

This position will manage legal matters, in partnership with attorneys, and exercise independent judgment in determining and recommending courses of action based on matter type, carrying out those actions, and bringing matters to closure. This position may also support attorneys/other DLA staff throughout DLA’s offices and will interact frequently with internal and external clients, outside counsel, third party vendors and business associates.

Qualifications

• Associate's Degree in ABA-approved Paralegal Studies Program or Certificate from a paralegal program at, or a degree from, an accredited secondary institution which requires at least 24 semester units in law-related courses.
• 5 years of Paralegal experience in a relevant practice area with an in-house legal team, or equivalent experience in a law practice setting.
• 5 years of Demonstrated experience performing substantive legal work for multiple attorneys in a relevant practice area.

Requirements

• Maintains the strictest confidentiality, trustworthiness and integrity at all times.
• Understands ABA Model rule 5.3 and how it applies to a Paralegal. Actively avoids the unauthorized practice of law.
• Enhance own professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, review of current literature, in-service meetings, and DLA-organized CLE offerings.
• Monitor and manage all aspects of projects or legal matters including, but not limited to, transactions, governance, investigations, and litigation.
• Assist attorney in intake/triage, creating, tracking, and managing ongoing matters and prioritizing the same.
• Request needed documentation and information from business partners to ensure that the attorney has all necessary information/material prior to beginning their work/analysis/review.
• Identifies and refine issues such that the attorney can focus her/his attention on providing legal advice and counsel to business partners.
• As requested, act as first line reviewer of legal invoices.
• Works collaboratively with outside counsel as applicable to the matter.
• Familiar with and able to independently utilize ServiceNow, Legal Tracker, iManage and various other platforms and document management systems used by DLA, including using these systems for reporting.
• Field inquiries from outside counsel and business partners when requested by the DLA attorney (or when said attorney is not available), and summarizes with relevant details, business partner legal issues or questions.
• Communicate directly and through correspondence with high level internal and external customers, including outside counsel as applicable.
• Develop, prepare and/or assemble necessary materials for meetings and presentations as needed.
• Assists with the on-boarding of new team members in workflows and process for applicable practice area.
• Identifies areas for process improvement and brings those to the attention of relevant department stakeholders.
• Consistent with DLA’s protocols, contract drafting and review.
• Participates in the development of practice tools to aid others in drafting and review of various legal documents.
• Draft and manage various DLA forms and policies.
• Compose, edit, and proofread a variety of correspondence, memos, presentations and materials, and directly handle within the assigned scope of authority, knowledge and understanding of activity.
• Lead or participate in document review as necessary to support various legal matters.
• As requested, review existing DLA documents/database to determine if preexisting analysis or other work product is available to address a current legal request.
• Completes legal research as requested by attorney, including Internet and other forms of computerized research.
• Assist in maintaining DLA’s website to include keeping model documents and other content located therein current.
• Leads the collection of Providence St. Joseph Health (Providence) division/local information as necessary for various purposes including to update/reflect any changes/revisions thereto for DLA.
• Special projects as assigned.
• Works independently and manages time effectively. Makes informed decisions about where to invest efforts based on established departmental and organizational priorities.
• Assists with training new team members.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching.
• Health care benefits (medical, dental, vision).
• Life insurance and disability insurance.
• Time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues).
• Voluntary benefits and well-being resources.