Role Summary
This role provides paralegal-level corporate and litigation support for FME's US legal matters from the GBS India Legal Center of Excellence in Bangalore, handling matter administration, entity/compliance administration, contract execution support and litigation support tasks under the direction of US-based attorneys.
Key Responsibilities
Matter & Case Administration
- Post documents to the legal tracker and other matter-management systems
- Open new cases/matters and set up corresponding legal tracker records
- Support onboarding of outside counsel
- Support vendor setup for settlement payments
Corporate Entity & Compliance Support
- Liaise with registered agents on entity filings
- Assist in responding to know-your-customer (KYC) inquiries from banks and financial institutions
- Maintain the annual US attorney registration/licensing verification list
- Procure apostilles for cross-border document legalization
- Maintain the legal tracker
- Liaise with the Philippines-based accounts payable team on legal billing matters
- Perform general administrative assistant responsibilities in support of the legal team
Contract Execution Support
- Create redlines and comparisons of contracts to support attorney review
- Route contracts for internal approvals and signatures, and obtain signatures for contract execution
- Upload documents to virtual data rooms ("clean rooms") to support due diligence and transaction processes
Litigation Support
- Coordinate settlement payments
- Monitor the damages tracking spreadsheet and track monetary recoveries
- Set up, maintain and release legal holds; update legal referrals internally
- Support responses to subpoenas involving FME employees (where FME is not a party), under attorney direction
Level-Specific Scope
- Performs the tasks above independently with limited supervision from supervising attorneys and the Paralegal Manager; may begin to review and guide administrative/entry-level colleagues on routine instances of this work
- Makes decisions on moderately complex to complex coordination, drafting and administrative matters, often requiring judgment about process and prioritization; escalates matters requiring legal interpretation, litigation strategy, or transaction terms to supervising attorneys
- Contributions begin to influence team-level process improvements (e.g. legal tracker usage, workflow standardization) but do not set functional strategy
- Represents FME in routine coordination with external parties (registered agents, banks on KYC matters, document-legalization services) within a clearly defined, attorney-authorized scope
- Modifies existing administrative and coordination processes to improve efficiency; does not set new firm-wide policy independently
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required (law degree not required); paralegal certificate or equivalent qualification preferred
- Bachelor's degree with approximately 3-6 years of relevant experience, including experience in corporate and/or litigation paralegal support, ideally supporting US legal matters from an LPO, GCC/GBS, or in-house legal environment
- Familiarity with US corporate entity administration (registered agents, KYC/banking compliance, attorney licensing tracking) and litigation support processes (legal holds, subpoena response, settlement tracking) is a plus
- Experience with legal matter-management/tracker systems, contract redlining/comparison tools, and virtual data room platforms preferred
- Strong organizational skills and high attention to detail; ability to manage multiple concurrent administrative and coordination workstreams
- Excellent written and spoken English required
- Discretion and ability to handle confidential corporate and litigation-related information
