Paralegal

Harman Becker Automotive Systems Manufacturing Kft • Carlsbad, CA

8d • Onsite

About The Position

The ideal candidate will be experienced in handling a broad range of executive support-related responsibilities and can work independently with little or no supervision. This person must be flexible yet results driven. They have outstanding organizational and project management skills and enjoy the administrative challenges of supporting a legal team. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong decision-making ability, and attention to detail are equally important. Confidentiality is crucial to this role.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent
• Minimum of eight (8) years of previous experience as a corporate paralegal in a corporation or large or mid-sized law firm.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, specifically with Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Word.
• Experience with database management and reporting.
• Willingness to travel 5% of the time.
• Willingness to work in an office in Carlsbad, CA.
• Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen.

Nice To Haves

• Paralegal certificate (preferred).
• Comparative analytics experience (preferred).
• Expertise in Zdiscovery, Exterro, Qlik Sense, Legal Tracker (Serengeti), or GEMS (preferred).
• California or Texas registered notary public a plus.
• California Notary
• Leadership: Demonstrate character, clarity, courage, and commitment to high-performance
• Build an environment of trust, high performance, and engagement by establishing clear goals and a commitment to feedback, development, and recognition.
• Change Orientation: Champion a better, faster, and simpler way of doing things:
• Apply original thinking and continuous improvement to processes, products, systems, or services and manage change to better serve customer needs.
• Collaboration: Connect, engage, and communicate with others:
• Encourage open expression of ideas; communicate effectively at all levels and build strong relationships.
• Judgment: Make sound decisions:
• Demonstrate critical thinking to take appropriate risks and make sound and timely decisions.
• Results-Driven: Deliver extraordinary results:
• Take the initiative to achieve superior quality results against internal or external standards of excellence.

Responsibilities

• The ability to interact with Lifestyle’s legal team and business stakeholders including executives in a fast-paced environment, under pressure with changing priorities and deadlines, remaining adaptive, proactive, resourceful, and efficient, with a high level of professionalism and confidence.
• Consult, assist, and coordinate with in-house and outside counsel on all aspects of contract management including review; responding to third party inquires; overseeing all legal logs and updates.
• Research, gather and compile materials; draft and revise correspondence and other legal documents; and review invoices and manage legal costs.
• Manage Lifestyle’s legal log matters and dashboards
• Manage legal holds for Lifestyle in the ZDiscovery platform.
• Maintain legal files.
• Supervise outside law department billing and related matters, including review of legal invoices for completeness, ensuring compliance with Harman’s billing guidelines, and reconciling invoices in Harman’s billing system.
• Oversee implementation of contracts through contract life cycle
• Manage contract extensions, modifications, and terminations.
• Work with compliance team for distributor validation and clearance
• Maintain and organize records and legal logs
• Perform diverse and complex legal tasks within specialty in liaising between Harman’s attorneys and internal clients concerning agreement, compliance, litigation and other questions and inquiries, including supporting signature requests.
• Oversee projects and initiatives as assigned time to time including administrative support to the Lifestyle Legal department to include but not limited to:
• Review mail and notices received and timely distribute to appropriate legal team members
• Acknowledge and forward legal and government notices
• Manage travel bookings and arrangements and preparing and tracking travel and entertainment expense reports
• Perform all general administrative duties for the department, including copying, scanning, mailings, invoice processing, and reconciliation
• Create and edit PowerPoint presentations and other documents, including financial reports.

Benefits

• Access to employee discounts on world class HARMAN/Samsung products (JBL, Harman Kardon, AKG etc.)
• Professional development opportunities through HARMAN University’s business and leadership academies
• Flexible work schedule with a culture encouraging work life integration and collaboration in a global environment
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development
• Tuition Reimbursement
• “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees