Job: Paralegal

Location: Los Angeles 

Description

Paralegal

Tracking Code 213598-025

Job Description

ICANN has an exciting new opportunity for a Paralegal in our Brussels or Los Angeles offices. The Paralegal will report directly to the General Counsel, performing Paralegal functions of a variable, complex problem solving and responsible nature which require a significant degree of knowledge, decision-making skills and independent judgment. He/she will prepare drafts of various agreements, certificates and closing documents; prepare corporate organizational and operational documents; and case-by-case research.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Provides operational and staff assistance to assigned attorneys; reviews and investigates factual matters and claims related to legal cases; summarizes findings and organizes by issue and claim;
2. Assists in the coordination of discovery and subpoena responses, including document review assistance and the development of privilege logs and other documents for attorney review;
3. Maintains files for active litigation matters and assist in the maintenance of litigation summaries on the status of all open matters;
4. Assists in the filing of corporate organizational and operational documents;
5. Performs legal research as requested;
6. Drafts correspondence related to transactional or litigation matters.

ICANN is an unusual global organization. It is based on a multi-stakeholder concept that brings interested voices around the world into the bottom-up policy-making process for the Internet's domain name system. You can find more about us at http://www.icann.org.

There is no typical ICANN employee.

• Our staff has a wide range of backgrounds and working styles, with many working remotely, and we have offices in Europe, Australia and the United States. We are expanding and changing rapidly.

Required Skills

• Strong written communcation skills
• Proven problem solving skills
• Ability to work independently and proactively
• Accurate and efficient with ability to meet deadlines
• Excellent personal and communications skills
• Strong work ethic, with the ability to multitask and set priorities
• Positive attitude and leadership qualities
• Poised and proactive with a forward-thinking mentality
• Able to develop and maintain efficient organizational systems.
• Bachelors degree required, and paralegal certification desired
• Legal requirements applicable to the maintenance and retention of employee benefits
• Global perspective
• Experience working in international environment and international politics

Required Experience

• Prior international experience strongly preferred.
• Bachelors degree required, and paralegal certification desired
• 5-7 years of paralegal experience in a high volume legal environment

ICANN is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, veteran status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, age or other protected characteristics and complies with all applicable laws and regulations.

Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications. ICANN offers a competitive benefits package, including a retirement savings plan and also employer-paid medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance.

All resumes should accompany a well written cover letter (first impressions are everything). Tell us why you are the best person for the job. Only those with comparable skills will be contacted. No phone calls or email please.

About ICANN:

ICANN's mission is to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet. ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet's unique identifiers.

ICANN doesn't control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesn't deal with access to the Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internet's naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet.

For more information please visit: http://www.icann.org.

Job Location Los Angeles, California, United States

Position Type Full-Time/Regular

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