Job Details

Job Summary

The Paralegal position provides timely and effective legal support to attorneys, internal clients, and members of the Real Estate, Treasury and Corporate Governance & Securities teams. This role involves managing requests for guidance from Real Estate professionals and preparing documents relating to a variety of corporate transactions.

Essential Functions

• Support internal clients and assist attorneys in real estate matters, including drafting leases, lease amendments, purchase and sale agreements and other ancillary real estate documents.
• Maintain corporate records, including legal entity registrations and board resolutions.
• Support securities teams, including filing forms with the Securities Exchange Commission (e.g., Form 4s; 8-Ks, etc.).
• Coordinate due diligence requests and prepare closing documentation for various corporate financing and M&A transactions.
• Provide general assistance across centralized legal functions.
• Proofread legal documents to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Analyze and summarize documents for review by attorneys.
• Work closely with attorneys to resolve a variety of day?to?day issues and support a broad range of commercial transactions and projects.
• Perform legal due diligence.
• Multi?task and prioritize work assignments to consistently provide high?quality work product within stated deadlines.
• Organize and maintain standard form agreements.

Additional Responsibilities

Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills and Abilities

Organization Demonstrates ability to manage high volume of legal documents, including maintaining a library of templates and forms.

Problem Solving Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; skillfully gathers and analyzes information.

Oral Communication Listens, obtains clarification, responds well to questions, and communicates with internal clients and attorneys in a courteous, effective, and professional manner.

Written Communication Writes clearly and informatively; edits work for spelling and grammar; varies writing style to meet needs; reads and interprets written information.

Analytical Skills Synthesizes complex or diverse information, collects and researches data.

Professionalism Maintains confidential information, contributes to positive team spirit, assumes personal responsibility for actions, executes tasks, and demonstrates high commitment to quality.

Qualifications

• Contracting expertise related to real estate documentation, including leasing transactions, acquisitions, and dispositions, as well as various types of financing and other corporate transactions. Rudimentary familiarity with corporate securities filings is helpful, but not required.
• Bachelor's degree required.
• Four (4) years or more relevant work experience working in a legal environment (law firm or in?house) required.
• Other Paralegal certification.

Travel

None

Compensation

The position may also be eligible to receive an annual bonus, commission, and/or long?term incentive plan based on the level and/or type.

Benefits

Ryder offers comprehensive health and welfare benefits, to include medical, prescription, dental, vision, life insurance and disability insurance options, as well as paid time off for vacation, illness, bereavement, family and parental leave, and a tax?advantaged 401(k) retirement savings plan.

Equal Opportunity

Ryder is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug?Free workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.