Job Description

Real Estate Paralegal

Our client, a full-service law firm, is seeking a Real Estate Paralegal for their New York office! This position is hybrid and has work from home flexibility.

Position Summary :

This role is for the experienced real estate paralegal who is excited about large scale/complex commercial financing and transactional matters from start to finish. The Real Estate Paralegal is responsible for providing support and assistance to the real estate practice group in all aspects of real estate due diligence, financings, acquisitions, syndications and dispositions. The Real Estate Paralegal must be an analytical and independent thinker, and detail-oriented.

Essential Functions:

1. Draft, review, and revise purchase agreements, various real estate and loan closing documents, title/survey objections, contracts, contract addendums, deeds, easement agreements, use restriction agreements, and other related and ancillary transactional documentation.
2. Perform due diligence including title and survey reviews for financings; acquisitions and/or dispositions/sales; orders and reviews other third-party reports; zoning reports; UCC/bankruptcy searches and underlying title documents and entity documents.
3. Research real estate laws, regulations, and case law as needed.
4. Assist and work with outside attorneys, lenders, title companies, escrow agents, and surveyors to facilitate, resolve, and finalize various matters, related to financing, leasing, and acquisitions and/or dispositions/sales transactions.
5. Prepare closing checklists, critical dates list, closing documents, various affidavits, certificates and resolutions and coordinate and control the closing process for various real estate transactions.
6. Prepare and organize all closing documents and closing binders.
7. Assist with recordation and/or filing of various legal documentation for financing and real estate transactions, corporate matters, and other matters as needed.
8. Organizes and maintains case files using a variety of automated procedures.
9. Meet billable goals as established by practice management.

Qualifications:

• Paralegal certification preferred
• 7+ years of real estate transactional experience in an AmLaw 150 firm or specialist real estate practice area.
• Experience with titles, surveys, deeds, and ancillary transactional documents is required.
• Experience MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook) is required.
• Must have solid time management and organizational skills; high level of accuracy and attention to detail; self-motivated and pro-active.
• Must be available for overtime work and travel as needed.

Salary Range: $100K to $155K, discretionary bonus.

Non-exempt, 40 hour work week, 1600 billable hour expectation for the year.

Hybrid work environment, 3 days in office, midtown NYC.

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