Job Description:
JOB DESCRIPTION
Location: North Palm Beach, FL (In Office)
We're committed to your flexibility and wellbeing. You'll experience this through our supportive approach, continuous learning opportunities, empowerment in your role and the ability to balance work and life.
We give you a world of potential
Computershare has a tremendous opportunity for a Legal Affairs Associate to join our growing team.
Computershare is a global financial administration company, employing over 12,000 people around the world. We provide services in over 20 countries to more than 16,000 clients and 75 million customers. Computershare is built on our share registry business and has expanded into employee equity plans, stakeholder communications, corporate governance, fund services, class action administration, deposit protection and most recently mortgage servicing.
The Legal Affairs Associate role is to advance Computershare's registered agent and compliance goals by mitigating risk, analyzing legal issues, managing litigation, and communicating with clients and vendors. The purpose of the Legal Affairs team is to support Computershare to meet its strategic objectives by expertly managing legal risk and providing effective and efficient legal solutions.
A role you will love
The Legal Affairs Associate is responsible for managing and prioritizing legal documents in a fast-paced environment, assisting the Legal Affairs Manager with case management, and prioritizing tasks with critical deadlines. The Legal Affairs Associate is also responsible for assisting the Legal and Industry teams with managing relationships with a network of vendors in the registered agent network.
Primary Accountabilities
- Establishing a professional and trusting relationship with clients and affiliates
- Analyzing business and legal risk
- Managing cases and assisting with case resolution
- Prioritizing and delivering on critical tasks with strict deadlines
- Effectively communicating with clients, vendors, affiliates, court clerks, process servers, law firms, and other professional external bodies
- Advising the Document Services team and Compliance team on legal document interpretation, corporate filing procedures, and risk mitigation
- Researching and drafting memoranda as required
- Creating professional template responses for teams to use in recurring scenarios
- Identifying trends and additional opportunities to create more efficient practices
- Serving as a conduit to internal business units and identifying opportunities to improve service delivery
- Maintaining functional knowledge of Computershare's processes, systems, products and services, and communicating enhancements and modifications to clients
- Being an ambassador for Computershare within the industry
What will you bring to the role?
The ideal candidate should possess/exhibit the following:
- Knowledge of civil litigation and general corporate law and governance with a minimum of 3 years working in the corporate services industry, a commercial or civil litigation law firm, or for the judiciary.
- Paralegal experience in both the public and private sector preferred.
- A good understanding of corporate entity formation and the civil litigation process, preferably with experience as a paralegal, legal assistant, court or clerk specialist, or judicial assistant.
- Ability to apply commercial overlay to technical legal issues. You will have an ability to prioritize day to day activity (both routine and non-routine) with own areas of responsibility and to manage own time and available resources to enable the successful completion of individual and team objectives. You will have sound judgement and ability to analyze situations and information, as well as be adaptable and to take on a variety of tasks.
- Excellent organization skills, attention to detail, mature attitude, and ability to work independently. You will be results and solutions focused, be commercially aware and an analytical problem solver.
- Willingness to work with other departments, primarily the Document Services team, understanding the critical nature and prioritization of various tasks.
- Good comprehension, communication, and clear and concise legal writing and presentation skills. You will have an ability to work with internal and external stakeholders and create strong relationships. You will also be professional, have tact and diplomacy when handling confidential information and sensitive matters, as well as be self motivated, flexible and proactive.
- Legal
- Front Office and Business Negotiations teams
- Executive management
- Outside vendors
Rewards designed for you
Paid parental leave, flexible working and a caring and inclusive culture.
Health and wellbeing rewards that can be tailored to support you and your family, including medical, dental and vision.
Invest in your future with 401k matching and tax-advantaged flexible spending plans, including healthcare, dependent care and commuter.
Income protection. Our package includes short and long-term disability benefits, life insurance and supplemental life insurance.
And more. Ours is a welcoming and close-knit community, with experienced colleagues ready to help you grow. Our handbook will help you find out more about our rewards and life at Computershare, visit computershare.com/careers-handbook.
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ABOUT US
A company to be proud of
We're a global leader in financial administration with over 12,000 employees across more than 21 different countries. At Computershare, it's more than just a job, our open and inclusive culture means that we will help you to grow, to move forward and make the most of our world of opportunities.
A diverse and inclusive place to work
Computershare celebrate the diversity of our people, and we welcome applications from everyone. We believe that having a culture of inclusion is essential in delivering good results. Attracting, retaining, and developing a diverse workforce where employees feel valued, respected, and empowered allows people to reach their full potential. As a business this diversity helps us to better reflect and understand our customers' needs to allow us to drive better outcomes.
We are happy to accommodate individual needs during your application journey. If you require disability accommodations or adjustments, please email us at TalentAcquisition@computershare.com detailing your requirements and contact information.
Computershare is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Since 1978, we've been trusted by companies around the globe to manage their shareholder registry, corporate actions and shareholder meetings and we're now the number one transfer agency in the world. As client needs evolved, so has our portfolio of services; extending our Issuer Services into equity and entity governance services to companies both public and private worldwide. Careers in Issuer Services could mean anything from assisting shareholders with their portfolios, enabling access to global markets or helping clients deliver on their equity and entity compliance requirements everywhere they operate.
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