Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Greystar is a leading global real estate platform specializing in property management and investment services. The Corporate Legal Specialist role focuses on providing legal and administrative support, particularly in corporate governance and entity management, ensuring compliance and efficiency in legal processes.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and maintain corporate governance documents, including operating agreements, resolutions and meeting minutes
- Work with registered agents, secretaries of state and outside counsel to assist with forming and dissolving entities, obtaining certificates of formation and good standing, and resolving certification issues
- Audit and maintain the entity management database to ensure accuracy and completeness of corporate records; query and extract entity data meeting specified criteria
- Monitor and manage entity compliance calendars, ensuring timely renewals, registrations, and qualification filings across all jurisdictions
- Revise and maintain organizational charts (experience with Microsoft Visio or Jigsaw a plus)
- Assist with contract management, including tracking contract lifecycles, maintaining the contract database, and coordinating internal approvals
- Assist with enterprise-wide legal operations initiatives, including technology platform optimization and template standardization, to improve efficiency
- Provide administrative support, including managing calendars, scheduling meetings, and preparing and organizing agendas and supporting materials for meetings
- Process invoices and track legal matter budgets
- Perform tasks and assist with other projects as requested in support of Greystar’s Corporate Secretary and Office of the Chief Legal Officer team
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree or paralegal certificate, along with a minimum of three years of experience in a transactional legal environment
- Ability to work independently and in a self-directed fashion with excellent attention to detail, proofreading, organizational and written communication skills
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, organize and prioritize workload, and adapt to changing priorities
- Ability to communicate effectively with strong interpersonal skills, including tact/diplomacy, persuasion, negotiation, and cooperation
- Strong working knowledge of advanced functions of Microsoft Office (including Word, Outlook and Excel), document manipulation and fill and sign functions in Adobe Acrobat, and operation of and navigating through databases generally
- Understanding of complex transactional legal concepts and terminology with proven ability to adapt skills and expand knowledge base quickly
- Notary public designation preferred
- Experience with Microsoft Visio or Jigsaw a plus
- Experience with Diligent software, CT Advantage and/or iManage a plus
Benefits
- Quarterly or annual bonus program based on individual and company performance
- Competitive Medical, Dental, Vision, and Disability & Life insurance benefits. Low (free basic) employee Medical costs for employee-only coverage; costs discounted after 3 and 5 years of service.
- Generous Paid Time off. All new hires start with 15 days of vacation, 4 personal days, 10 sick days, and 11 paid holidays. Plus your birthday off after 1 year of service! Additional vacation accrued with tenure.
- Onsite housing discount at Greystar-managed communities are available subject to discount and unit availability.
- 6-Week Paid Sabbatical after 10 years of service (and every 5 years thereafter).
- 401(k) with Company Match up to 6% of pay after 6 months of service.
- Paid Parental Leave and lifetime Fertility Benefit reimbursement up to $10,000 (includes adoption or surrogacy).
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity, Pet Insurance and Legal Plans.
- Charitable giving program and benefits.
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