Senior Paralegal - Intellectual Property Trademarks

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

6d • $33 - $63 • Onsite

About The Position

Join the Intellectual Property Center of Expertise within Digital Citizenship as a Trademark Senior Paralegal. In this role, you will support our trademark attorneys in providing advice and counsel to teams across all of Walmart’s businesses. What you'll do... The selected hire will work from our beautiful new home office in Bentonville, AR. https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2025/01/17/the-future-of-better-begins-here-welcome-to-walmarts-new-home-office The Trademark Senior Paralegal supports Walmart’s global trademark and copyright portfolios by maintaining dockets, monitoring deadlines, and ensuring compliance with U.S. and foreign formality requirements. Collaborate with and assist trademark attorneys, outside counsel, and business clients, with trademark-related inquiries and generate dashboards and reports to track internal trademark statistics using Anaqua. What you’ll do… • Support a global trademark portfolio by applying expert knowledge and understanding of U.S. and foreign trademark filing and prosecution practices and trademark formalities. • Coordinate, support, and supervise outside counsel during all stages of trademark review, clearance, and opinion work, including trademark filing, prosecution, and renewals, managing of deadlines and facilitating signing and filing of documents. • Manage and maintain an internal trademark database, ensure data quality, and generate dashboards and reports to track relevant trademark statistics and metrics. • Establish and maintain internal best practices and procedures to support the company’s trademark program, including keeping and updating process documents and outside counsel guidelines. • Assist trademark attorneys on all matters related to trademarks and copyright. • Respond to routine business inquiries related to trademark and copyright matters. • Develop and conduct training for business teams and other internal groups. What you’ll bring… • Experience as a paralegal in the trademark practice area. • Experience with Anaqua or a similar IP management system. • Demonstrated ability to prioritize workloads and manage multiple deadlines. • Familiarity with managing large dockets. • Keen attention to detail. • You are process-minded and look for opportunities to streamline for improved efficiency and effectiveness. • Familiarity with fashion law and experience conducting product reviews. The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full job description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

Requirements

• Experience as a paralegal in the trademark practice area.
• Experience with Anaqua or a similar IP management system.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize workloads and manage multiple deadlines.
• Familiarity with managing large dockets.
• Keen attention to detail.
• You are process-minded and look for opportunities to streamline for improved efficiency and effectiveness.
• Familiarity with fashion law and experience conducting product reviews.

Nice To Haves

• A national recognized paralegal certification in a relevant specialty area of the law (for example, NALS, NALA)
• Relevant specialty area of law in a law firm or corporate legal environment
• Bachelors: Law

Responsibilities

• Support a global trademark portfolio by applying expert knowledge and understanding of U.S. and foreign trademark filing and prosecution practices and trademark formalities.
• Coordinate, support, and supervise outside counsel during all stages of trademark review, clearance, and opinion work, including trademark filing, prosecution, and renewals, managing of deadlines and facilitating signing and filing of documents.
• Manage and maintain an internal trademark database, ensure data quality, and generate dashboards and reports to track relevant trademark statistics and metrics.
• Establish and maintain internal best practices and procedures to support the company’s trademark program, including keeping and updating process documents and outside counsel guidelines.
• Assist trademark attorneys on all matters related to trademarks and copyright.
• Respond to routine business inquiries related to trademark and copyright matters.
• Develop and conduct training for business teams and other internal groups.

Benefits

• At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet.
• Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
• You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.
• Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
• Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees