Job Description
Job Description
Real Estate Paralegal (Commercial)-
- Conducting and coordinating comprehensive due diligence—reviewing title commitments, surveys, zoning reports and underlying documents to spot issues before they become obstacles
- Drafting, revising and assembling real estate conveyance and financing documents
- Driving the closing process for acquisitions, dispositions and debt and equity financings—managing signature packages, tracking deliverables against checklists, satisfying recording requirements and preparing meticulously indexed closing books
- Preparing, filing, and tracking UCC financing statements; ordering and analyzing lien, litigation and similar searches; and ensuring clean title on every matter
- Tackling special projects that require legal research, insightful reporting and creative problem-solving
- Serving as a trusted liaison between lawyers, clients, title companies, surveyors, opposing counsel and governmental agencies to keep every deal on course and on schedule
- Bachelor’s degree (or associate’s degree plus a paralegal certificate)
- Five to seven years of commercial real estate experience in a law-firm, in-house legal department or title company
- Mastery of title and survey review
- Exposure to large, complex transactions strongly preferred
- Superior organizational skills and impeccable attention to detail
- Discretion with sensitive information
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, PDF creation tools, document management systems and timekeeping software