JobDescription :
The Role: Paralegal
The Location: New York, New York, Charlottesville, VA
The Team:
S&P Global Market Intelligence (SPGMI), a division of S&P Global Inc., provides financial information and analytical products and services, such as web-based platforms, data feeds and software, is a $1.7 billion revenue division of S&P Global Inc. The Paralegal will be a member of the SPGMI legal department, which is comprised of attorneys and non-attorney professionals who support the division's commercial organization, product development/technology functions and business management/leadership.
The Impact: The Paralegal is tasked with responding to internal client inquiries, providing substantive legal support to attorneys and non-attorney contract negotiators along with some administrative tasks, training the commercial organization on legal and contracting procedures, negotiating certain standard commercial agreements such as NDAs and Trial Agreements, as well as assisting with special projects such as research, process review and innovation, and information review and analysis.
What's in it for you?
The Paralegal will work in a dynamic, client-facing (both internal and external) environment and will have the opportunity to work independently and be part of a legal team that provides crucial support to the organization.
Responsibilities:
- Provide administrative and substantive legal support to attorneys and contract negotiators, including assistance with drafting legal correspondence, agreements and other legal documents.
- Train internal clients on commercial team as to internal licensing procedures and systems.
- Respond to legal support requests from internal business clients, including requests to assist with RFP/RFI/RFQs/corporate documents.
- Navigate contracts database and other internal systems to track and obtain information on SPGMI's contractual relationships.
- Participate in and/or lead special projects, including due diligence activities related to acquisitions and divestitures, legal research, data compilation, and analysis.
What We're Looking For:
Basic Qualifications:
- Excellent interpersonal skills: people-oriented, collegial, and comfortable with frequent client-facing interactions (via e-mail, phone, and in-person).
- Strong verbal/written communication and business writing/legal drafting abilities.
- Project management experience.
- Comfortable working independently but with ability to identify issues and escalate accordingly.
- Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn quickly and adapt easily.
- Highly-organized with ability to efficiently multitask and prioritize work for several simultaneous tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Capacity to simultaneously manage multiple priorities.
- College degree and at least three years of related experience.
- Strongly proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel, PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior paralegal or business/legal affairs department experience.
- Solid working knowledge of contractual and intellectual property issues.
- Experience working with Salesforce.com or similar CRM applications.
- Experience drafting and negotiating basic commercial agreements, such as NDAs, trial agreements, and simple licensing agreements.
At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we know that not all information is important-some of it is vital. Accurate, deep and insightful. We integrate financial and industry data, research and news into tools that help track performance, generate alpha, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuation and assess credit risk. Investment professionals, government agencies, corporations and universities globally can gain the intelligence essential to making business and financial decisions with conviction.
S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence .
S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer committed to making all employment decisions without regard to race/ethnicity, gender, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, marital status (including domestic partnerships and civil unions), sexual orientation, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.
If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.
The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf describes discrimination protections under federal law.
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