Paralegal I

Description

Paralegal I

Summary:         

Support the Company’s internal legal department under the supervision of Senior Corporate Counsel.  Provide legal support to the attorneys and staff in all facets of global legal tasks.      

Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities. 

Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring a wide range of talented experts together across a wide range of business-critical services that support our business. Every role within Corporate is vital to furthering our vision of Shortening the Distance from Lab to Life®.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know: 
WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people. 
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

Responsabilities:

1.      Support the commercial attorneys in all aspects of business development and contracting matters including client/sponsor contracts and strategic alliances, global lease issues, vendor and corporate contracting matters, and various issues escalated from the business units and internal departments. 

2.      Support the internal and external litigation team in monitoring claims and pending litigation. 

3.      Assist the labor and employment team in drafting position statements, demand letters and severance agreements.  Investigate and research employment disputes, collective bargaining efforts and Works Council matters.

4.      Support the transaction team in forming and dissolving corporate entities, maintaining corporate books and various mergers and acquisition (M&A) activities.

5.      Assist with a wide variety of legal issues including corporate, regulatory, commercial, compliance and general legal matters. 

6.      Coordinate notarization and legalization of documents. 

7.      Assist in researching issues, generating reports and advising internal customers regarding business and legal inquiries. 

8.      Perform legal (Westlaw and/or other databases) and factual research, and prepare written, statistical and graphical reports as needed. Act as department liaison to various internal departments and external counsel. 

9.      Perform administrative support in preparing and distributing various memos and reports related to attorney projects, tracking legal invoices and the department budget. 

Other Responsibilities: 

Performs other work-related duties as assigned.  Minimal travel may be required (up to 25%).  

Qualifications

Qualifications

• B.A./B.S. degree in business, legal or related field or equivalent education and experience; 
• Some paralegal experience in a large law firm or corporate in-house legal department preferred. 
• Industry experience in a CRO, biotech or pharmaceutical drug development company is helpful but not required. 
• Requires demonstrated keen analytical skills, resourceful problem solver, excellent personal organization, and impeccable attention to detail. 
•  Collaborative team player with the capability to simultaneously manage multiple demanding projects. 
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) email and voice mail; and familiarity with legal research tools.    

Get to know Syneos Health
Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.