Litigation Paralegal

Cross River • Fort Lee, NJ

5h • Hybrid

About The Position

Cross River builds the infrastructure behind the world’s most innovative financial products, powering payments, cards, lending, and digital asset capabilities. Their mission is to build financial infrastructure that expands access and opportunity for all, guided by a culture of collaboration, curiosity, and purpose. Cross River has been recognized as one of American Banker’s Best Places to Work in Fintech. The Legal team at Cross River handles all legal responsibilities, and the Litigation Paralegal plays a key role. This position is responsible for assisting in managing the company’s litigation and/or regulatory matters, improving legal processes, and supporting the legal team with contract review, management, and prioritization. The ideal candidate should have experience working in a fast-paced legal or business environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years (minimum) of significant and substantive experience as a Paralegal
• Bachelor’s Degree from recognized US college or university
• Litigation, regulatory and contract matter management experience
• Experience assisting with litigation holds and setting systems to ensure that data is not deleted during such holds
• Exposure to vendor contracts
• Ability to handle stressful situations with internal and external clients, while maintaining a professional approach to problem solving
• Hard-working, well organized, and able to manage numerous projects simultaneously under deadline pressures
• Excellent organizational and project management skills
• Experience managing document productions
• Proficient with MS Office Suite - specifically Excel spreadsheets (a must)
• Thorough knowledge of legal communication principles and practices
• Strong research and report-generating skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Basic legal research and investigation skills
• Ability to follow direction and procedures
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to prioritize workload and assignments
• High degree of professional ethics and integrity
• Excellent judgement, analytical skills, and decision making
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability and desire to build relationships with others

Nice To Haves

• Paralegal certificate from an ABA accredited program preferred, or a combination of education and/or experience
• Working knowledge and competency with case management software, a plus
• Experience with regulatory examinations and internal investigations, a plus

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the in-house legal team to address legal issues
• Assist in-house counsel with litigation and regulatory matter management
• Respond to subpoenas, levies and garnishments
• Coordinate the collection, review and production of documents and respond to discovery requests
• Manage and track all litigation
• Act as a liaison among all parties including court or other neutrals for scheduling and sharing information
• Assist in-house counsel with contract review and management
• Manage contract execution, by acting as point person for DocuSign
• Provide contract support for standard corporate agreements, such as non-disclosure, marketing, and independent contractor agreements
• Assist with management of the process of signing and tracking legal documents
• Ensure appropriate contract authorization
• Facilitate completion of commercial contracts (by, for example, filling in basic information to contract form, proofreading and collecting business information for schedules/appendices)
• Update contract forms and draft simple form documents (e.g., product claim settlement and release agreements) or contract amendments
• Organize and manage documents, including the creation of spreadsheets and retrieval systems
• Compile information and prepare statistics, charts, graphs and other summaries to detail the findings
• Check and edit legal forms and documents for accuracy
• Build and maintain databases and files
• Organize and track case files
• Coordinate law office activities such as subpoena delivery
• Review legal department processes for improvements and efficiencies
• Provide general support to Legal Department and assist with special projects as needed

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees