Legal Specialist - Legal & Corp Secretary - Akron FirstEnergy Headquarters

FirstEnergy•Akron, OH

About The Position

This position with FirstEnergy Service Co., a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., supports the Corporate Counsel & Secretary, Transmission function. The Legal Department provides legal, corporate governance, transactional, and administrative support to FirstEnergy transmission activities and the transmission subsidiaries, affiliates, and joint ventures it serves. The Legal Specialist collaborates with Transmission leadership and partners in Finance, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Regulatory, Operations, Development, and Project Management. The role supports attorneys, directors, officers, and business partners by preparing governance materials; coordinating approvals and signatures; maintaining corporate records; tracking obligations and deadlines; and helping legal and business matters progress from intake through completion. The position reports to the Vice President, Associate General Counsel (Securities, Corporate, Finance, M&A, Commercial, Environmental, Benefits), located at FirstEnergy’s corporate headquarters in Akron, Ohio. The position reports to an attorney and performs work under attorney supervision. It supports corporate governance, entity management, transactional, and legal administrative processes, but does not independently render legal advice or perform attorney-only functions.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in paralegal studies, legal studies, business, corporate governance, or a related discipline.
Four or more years of relevant experience in legal support, paralegal work, corporate governance, entity management, transactional support, or corporate administration.
Experience preparing, reviewing, organizing, and tracking board materials, resolutions, minutes, consents, entity records, transaction documents, or related legal documentation.
Strong writing, proofreading, organization, and attention-to-detail skills, including the ability to produce accurate materials for executive and board-level audiences.
Strong project coordination and deadline management skills, with the ability to manage multiple entities, matters, and priorities in a deadline-driven environment.
Ability to work effectively with attorneys, executives, directors, officers, business teams, and external service providers while handling confidential and sensitive information appropriately.
Strong communication, analytical, problem-solving, and follow-through skills.
Ability to work under attorney supervision, exercise sound judgment, and escalate legal, governance, or business questions appropriately.
Ability to respond to internal client needs consistently with corporate values, business objectives, governance requirements, and risk tolerance.

Nice To Haves

ABA Paralegal Certification, Certified Corporate Governance Professional credential, or equivalent.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, especially Word, Excel, Outlook, Copilot, and PowerPoint.
Experience with document management, board portal, entity management, and workflow systems.
Experience supporting corporate secretarial, board and committee, subsidiary governance, joint venture, finance, or transactional matters.
Familiarity with SharePoint, SAP, NetDocuments, board portal software, entity management platforms, electronic signature tools, or similar systems.
Experience supporting utility, energy, infrastructure, transmission, or other regulated-industry legal and governance matters.

Responsibilities

Prepare, revise, proofread, and organize board and committee agendas, resolutions, consents, minutes, presentations, meeting books, and related governance materials under attorney supervision.
Coordinate board, committee, member, shareholder, and officer approval processes, including meeting logistics, document circulation, signature collection, filing, and follow-up on action items.
Maintain corporate records for transmission subsidiaries, affiliates, and joint ventures, including minute books, governance documents, organizational records, delegations of authority, and director and officer information.
Track governance calendars, recurring approvals, filing requirements, entity deadlines, meeting dates, material due dates, and open action items; provide timely reminders and status updates to attorneys and business partners.
Support entity formation, qualification, restructuring, dissolution, and ongoing entity maintenance, coordinating with registered agents, state filing offices, and internal stakeholders.
Assist with preparation and administration of transaction documents, capital contribution and funding approvals, intercompany agreements, organizational actions, and closing materials under attorney supervision.
Coordinate legal intake, routing, review, approval, execution, and storage of governance and corporate documents to promote timely and consistent completion of matters.
Prepare governance summaries, approval checklists, organizational charts, status reports, trackers, and metrics for legal, business, and leadership use.
Conduct legal and corporate research on governance requirements, internal precedent, organizational documents, and applicable corporate law, and compile findings for attorney review.
Maintain organized legal and corporate files, manage version control, and ensure accurate storage and retrieval of executed documents, board materials, correspondence, and supporting records.
Draft correspondence, notices, certifications, signature packages, officer and director questionnaires, and internal communications related to governance, entity, and transaction matters.
Support due diligence, audits, regulatory requests, discovery, document collection, and issue resolution involving transmission entities and governance records as directed by attorneys.
Help improve governance and legal operations processes, templates, trackers, document repositories, and technology-enabled workflows.
Perform other legal support duties as assigned.