In-House Corporate Paralegal Job at Epiq, Irvine, CA

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  • Epiq
  • Irvine, CA

Job Description

About the Opportunity

This is a near-term full-time remote opportunity with our Fortune 500 client! We are actively seeking Corporate Transactions Paralegals with direct experience providing support on legal work and contracts, including negotiation, drafting, and review of M&A and deal-related contracts.

Introduction

Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful work and flexibility to sophisticated and credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers work on a wide variety of matters for Fortune 500 clients, such as complex licensing agreements, intellectual property, employment counseling, compliance policy creation, and M&A transactions. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging work for sophisticated clients that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control.

Epiq Counsel takes the time and attention to understand each lawyer’s practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure they are presented with compelling engagement opportunities with leading law departments across the globe.

We are actively seeking Corporate Transactions Paralegals located in Irvine, CA area with the following qualifications:

  • Minimum 5 years of paralegal experience, including significant experience in negotiating contracts.
  • Experience handling various legal tasks, including negotiating, drafting, and reviewing agreements related to mergers and acquisitions.
  • Strong Microsoft Excel, Teams, and Sharepoint skills are a must.
  • Minimum of 1 year of pharmaceutical and/or clinical R&D industry experience preferred.
  • Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution; paralegal certification strongly preferred.
  • Willingness to work a hybrid schedule of 3-days onsite in clients Irvine, CA-based office.
  • Epiq Counsel partners with industry-leading clients in support of their sophisticated interim talent needs. Must be interested in practicing in an alternative, fixed-term legal services model.

Support our Fortune 500 client with the following responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with legal team and R&D business stakeholders within the organization.
  • Handle various legal tasks, including negotiating, drafting, and reviewing agreements related to mergers and acquisitions.
  • Assist attorneys in resolving complex legal issues on projects within the legal department and/or multiple functional areas or divisions.
  • Identify opportunities for improvement and recommend solutions to ensure maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Advise legal department managers of project developments in a timely manner.
  • Maintain management databases as needed.

Benefits

  • Hybrid schedule.
  • Compensation commensurate with experience and complexity of engagement.
  • 401(k) with company match
  • PTO and paid federal holidays
  • Optional medical coverage; HSA Account; Wellness Program
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Pre-tax Commuter Benefits (as applicable)

Application Information

Should your experience meet the role requirements, the Epiq Counsel team will contact you. The Epiq Counsel team strives to respond to all applications; however due to the volume of applicants, we cannot always respond to every application.

It is Epiq’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Job Tags

Holiday work, Full time, Fixed term contract, Interim role, Local area, Remote job,

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