Experienced Transactional Paralegal / Legal Assistant

Build My Great Team • Colorado Springs, CO

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This is a long-term platform role for an experienced Transactional Paralegal / Legal Assistant who wants to settle in, learn the client base, and grow with the practice. The firm, Mulliken Weiner Berg & Jolivet P.C., has over 35 years of experience in real estate, business, estate planning, and land use. The firm has consistently been selected a Best Workplace and is located in downtown Colorado Springs. The role involves assisting attorneys with transactional matters, managing deadlines, maintaining files, and anticipating the next steps to keep files moving forward. The pace is steady with variety, including residential closings, title objections, entity formations, and due diligence requests within the same week. The schedule is Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., in office, with overtime as needed.

Requirements

• Minimum of five years of hands-on paralegal or legal assistant experience.
• Substantial experience with commercial and residential real estate transactions from purchase and sale agreement to closing, including real estate commission forms and contracts and title review.
• Substantial experience with corporate governance, business transactions, commercial contracts, and acquisitions and divestitures, including due diligence and closings.
• Substantial experience providing legal assistance and administrative support to multiple attorneys.
• High level of proficiency with Microsoft Word and PDF software.
• Excellent references.
• Excellent and effective oral and written communication skills, plus strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent attention to detail, sound reasoning, and confident day-to-day decision making.
• Ability to work with little supervision, adapt as priorities shift, apply the general legal rules of ethical behavior, and carry yourself with consistent professionalism.

Nice To Haves

• Estate planning exposure preferred.
• Excel proficiency preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage commercial and residential real estate transactions from purchase and sale agreement through closing, tracking deadlines and maintaining closing checklists.
• Prepare and process real estate commission forms, contracts, amendments, and closing documents.
• Order, review, and summarize title commitments, exception documents, and surveys, and work with attorneys to clear title objections.
• Draft and assemble corporate governance documents, including formation filings, operating agreements, bylaws, resolutions, consents, and annual reports.
• Support business transactions, commercial contracts, and acquisitions and divestitures, including due diligence collection and review, closing checklists, and closing binders.
• Maintain entity records and Secretary of State filings across a portfolio of client entities.
• Assist with estate planning matters, including document assembly, recording, and filings with local jurisdictions.
• Provide legal and administrative support to multiple attorneys at once, managing competing deadlines and shifting priorities.
• Communicate directly with clients, title companies, lenders, brokers, and opposing counsel throughout a transaction.
• Maintain accurate files, calendars, and time records consistent with firm standards and the general rules of legal ethics.

Benefits

• Salary: $55,000 to $75,000 per year, commensurate with experience.
• Discretionary cash bonus.
• Firm-paid health insurance, with optional dental and vision, plus a health savings or flexible spending account.
• Simple IRA with a 3% firm match.
• Firm-paid life insurance.
• Paid parking and free access to the building’s fitness facilities.
• 8.5 paid firm holidays, a generous paid time off policy, and 48 hours of HFWA leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed