Overview
Closing Legal Assistant Jobs in Sandy Springs, Fulton, GA at The CP Law Group, LLC
You will be a member of Elevates Managed Contracts Services Team, working closely with in-house legal departments and their internal business customers. You will provide deal support and also participate in projects to improve our customers contractual infrastructure, workflow, and processes. You will work independently on assigned matters, but will also work collaboratively with other members of the Elevate team and Elevate service lines, as well as the customers in house team.
You might be the right person if you:
Like the sound of working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment for a quickly growing company in an expanding new services market
Think legal services should embrace business models and processes to create measurable, cost-effective results
Enjoy negotiating and drafting contracts.
Like working with multinational companies, spanning different markets and industries
Embrace the use of technology tools to facilitate your work
Are knowledge focused rather than task focused; understand the importance of capturing and re-using information
Work well independently as well as with teams
Are the kind of person who can be relied upon to get things done
Duties may include, but are not limited to the review, negotiation and management of vendor and merchant contracts on a global basis.
In-scope contracts for vendor support would include low to medium complexity master services agreements, consulting arrangements, professional services agreements, software licenses, hardware purchase agreements, SaaS agreements, Data Privacy agreements, statements of work and other routine procurement agreements.
In-scope contracts for merchant support would include low to medium complexity pricing amendments, merchant accession agreements, guarantees and NDAs.
Work closely with customer legal team and provide support to the procurement and sales teams.
Review contracts and negotiate acceptable alternatives, working from templates and tools that you will help create.
Facilitate escalation and resolution of contract issues.
Update or draft templates, negotiation playbooks, and other contract infrastructure tools.
Capture various pieces of information related to the contracts or matters that you support.
Participate or manage customer projects to improve contracting efficiency, cost effectiveness, and knowledge sharing.
Participate on task forces that strive to improve how Elevate services its customers and that enable our team to develop and grow.
Experience/Skills/Education:
3 or more years of relevant experience in transactional contracts support, including reviewing, interpreting and negotiating commercial contracts relating to procurement, sales, IT and Data Privacy.
Professional proficiency in one or more of the following languages is not necessary but would be preferred: French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Hebrew, Russian and Japanese.
Skills for Success:
Organizational and time management skills. Ability to prioritize and coordinate multiple project activities and competing work demands.
Detail oriented, but possessing the ability to see the big picture.
Positive interpersonal skills, including the ability to establish and maintain cooperative, courteous working relationships with others.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Have a sense of urgency, self-motivated, and accountable
Ability to perform QC on self and others
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite or Google applications. Proficiency in, or exposure to contact management, reporting, and workflow tools, helpful but not required.
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Title: Closing Legal Assistant
Company: The CP Law Group, LLC
Location: Sandy Springs, Fulton, GA
