Advanced Senior Paralegal

Unum Group•Chattanooga, TN

About The Position

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive. Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you’re directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today! General Summary: Provides complex paralegal assistance to attorneys. May serve in a lead role providing direction and/or mentoring to Paralegals and Senior Paralegals as needed.

Requirements

High school diploma.
A minimum of a paralegal certificate and 3 years of paralegal experience or seven (7) years of paralegal experience.
Excellent oral and written communications skills.
Excellent interpersonal relation skills.
Excellent word processing, math and research skills.
Demonstrated independent critical thinking and judgment.
Demonstrated ability to train/mentor Paralegals and Senior Paralegals.

Responsibilities

Conducts legal research and complex analysis as assigned.
Locates information for attorneys and other internal and external authorities.
May interview all levels of company employees to develop detailed information on all phases of Unum operations.
Reviews, analyzes, summarizes and organizes documents as needed.
Prepares draft responses of legal documents.
Ensures that legal documentation is processed in compliance with legal requirements.
Assists with or takes a lead role in large projects and assists other paralegals with their workload as necessary.
May perform other duties as assigned.
May assist with witness preparation for deposition and trial.
Interact with all levels of company employees and exercise the judgment to coordinate appropriately with in house and outside counsel as needed.
Advanced knowledge of company’s products and procedures.
Advanced knowledge of legal issues involving group and/or individual policies and claims.
May renew, research and process garnishments, state/federal levies, bankruptcies, child support orders and other legal withholding orders.
May renew, research, process, and respond to subpoenas, authorization agreed orders and other legal process.
May prepare and file answers with courts and administrative tribunals.
May maintain, develop and update standard and non-standard RFP responses, based on business objectives and sales and risk strategies; maintain RFP tracking system.
May work with internal/external counsel on complex bankruptcy issues, including preference actions, while generating, organizing and maintaining relevant legal documentation, case status updates and state law preference updates.
May support legal education training initiatives of the department by researching and creating training tools, including presentations, hand-outs, and articles.
Interface with transfer agent
Manage due diligence requests from acquirers, government agencies and others
Complete and file required forms with SEC, NYSE and others
Manage information concerning officers and directors
Provide backup to attorneys for certain tasks
May review draft broad discovery responses for accuracy and consistency.
May maintain and update case tracking system, broad discovery database and document library.
Works with in-house and outside counsel on discovery strategy and responses and accompanying discovery based pleadings, as well as performing in depth review of documents.
Assists with witness preparation for deposition and trial.

Benefits

Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability
Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)
Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution
Mental health support
Career advancement opportunities
Student loan repayment options
Tuition reimbursement
Flexible work environments
healthcare benefits (health, vision, dental)
insurance benefits (short & long-term disability)
performance-based incentive plans
paid time off
a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not.