DLA Piper
Transactions Assistant - Corporate
Austin, TX
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 3 hours ago
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About the role
- Wherever you are in your professional journey, DLA Piper is a place you can engage in meaningful work and grow your career.
Responsibilities
- Excellent organization and attention to detail skills to manage and track legal documents and spreadsheets with multiple users and versions and prepare and maintain checklists.
- Organize documents for attorney review.
- This will include attention to many organizational aspects of deals, including tracking, organizing, and editing documents, researching public records, assisting with electronic closing volumes, creating and maintaining signature tracking spreadsheets, entering data, and maintaining corporate records.
- You will also perform transaction research and assist the legal team in closing large transactions using electronic mail and signature collection and tracking process.
- You will obtain documents and other information from governmental agencies or public agencies and information from accounting, timekeeping, and attorneys.
- Excellent organizational and attention-to-detail skills necessary to manage volumes of documents, binders, letters, charts, etc.
Requirements
- Successfully meet deadlines, expectations, and perform work duties as required.
- Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
- Proficiency in Word and Excel.
- Bachelor's degree.
- Minimum Years of Experience
Nice to have
- Demonstrated basic level of proficiency in Word, Excel, Outlook and database experience.
- Office experience in a law firm environment supporting paralegals and/or attorneys preferred.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills required to interact with paralegals, attorneys and clients on a regular basis.
- Must have the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to prioritize multiple assignments to meet deadlines.
- Paralegal certificate preferred.
Skills
- DLA Piper is, at its core, bold, exceptional, collaborative and supportive.
- Our people are the backbone, heart and soul of our firm.
- It is a perfect position for someone interested in business, corporate law, and working in a law firm environment.
- This position is located in our Austin office and offers a hybrid work schedule.
Benefits
- Experience and/ or interest in learning and working with cutting edge legal tools and software.
- Minimum Education
- Preferred Education
- Reasonable accommodations may be made upon request to permit individuals with a disability to perform the essential functions and responsibilities of the position or to participate in the job selection process.
- Any relocation benefits, if any, are provided only where a relocation is required at the firm's direction and in accordance with applicable policy and law.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Equal opportunity
- Accommodation
- If you have a request for an accommodation during the
- equal opportunity employer.
Visa & Work Authorization
- No immigration sponsorship is available for this position.
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