Overview:
GableGotwals is a full-service law firm with approximately 100 attorneys and more than 70 other professionals in Oklahoma and Texas. We represent a diversified client base across the nation, and our connections and reach are global. Fortune 500 corporations, privately owned companies, entrepreneurs, foundations, and individuals entrust us every day with the stewardship and strategic management of their legal challenges. We are well known for our high-quality legal services provided by an experienced group of litigators and transactional attorneys who have been recognized by Benchmark Litigation, Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America, Oklahoma Super Lawyers, and several federal, state and county bar associations. GableGotwals is a 2024 USA Today Top Workplace winner, a Top Inclusive Workplace by MOSAIC, and a VETS Indexes Recognized employer. The Firm has been named to VAULT’s Top 150 under 150 list for eight consecutive years. We provide a highly engaged, collaborative, team-based approach to doing life at work while we serve our clients with excellence not only throughout Oklahoma and Texas, but across the U.S.
Why Join Us:
Our purpose is to deliver exceptional legal services using our diverse skills and experience and to enrich our team and community. We strive to exhibit our core values in all that we do. Our core values are:
- Excellence – Provide the highest level of service to internal and external clients
- Integrity – Uphold the highest ethical standards
- Collaboration – Work together with collective skills experience, and efforts for optimal results
- Support – Maintain a positive, respectful environment that embraces diverse perspectives and needs among clients, team members, and community
Position Summary:
The Transactional Paralegal plays a vital role in the Firm’s corporate and transactional practice group, which includes mergers and acquisitions, real estate, commercial lending and finance, corporate governance, capital markets and securities, and other business and transactional matters. Duties encompass a wide range of tasks, such as managing closing checklists and closing proceedings, generating drafts and final document sets and signature packets for complex closings, assisting with lien and litigation searches and other deal diligence, drafting and reviewing documents, preparing reports, dealing with filing offices in different states and counties, and organizing and maintaining documents. We expect our Transaction Paralegals to understand the ultimate goals of projects, to anticipate future events, and to be an integral part of a team.
Essential Job Functions:
- Assist attorneys with the preparation and filing of legal documents, including contracts, agreements, and corporate filings.
- Prepare due diligence request lists; work with clients to collect due diligence information and materials; analyze due diligence materials to assist attorneys in determining compliance with representations and warranties contained in the transaction documents and the transferability of instruments, federal and state permits, and licenses; and collaborate with clients and aid attorneys in consulting with opposing counsel to resolve issues that may negatively impact the timing of the closing.
- Prepare and file various formation documents on behalf of corporate entities including charter documents, organizational consents, bylaws, company agreements, etc.
- Record real estate lien documents and search real property records to determine property ownership and identify easements, lines, and other encumbrances.
- Perform UCC searches, summarize results and file UCC financing statements.
- Prepare closing checklists, critical dates list, closing documents, various affidavits, certificates, and resolutions and closing binders.
- Coordinate and control the closing process for various transactions, loan transactions, mergers, and acquisitions, including the development, distribution, gathering, and assimilation of signatures and signature packets for extremely complicated closings involving multiple documents from various sources. Use of third-party products like “Simply Agree” to facilitate closings.
- Coordinate and maintain loan closing checklist and prepare documents required by lenders such as certificates and resolutions, construction escrow disbursement agreements, etc.
- Draft a variety of legal documents, including but not limited to, real estate purchase agreements, leases, acquisition agreements, loan agreements, guaranty agreements, mortgages and deeds of trusts/mortgages, promissory notes, financing statements, company formation/registration documents, corporate bylaws, and operating agreements.
- Organize and maintain transactional files and records.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree and/or paralegal certificate from an ABA-approved program
- Minimum of two (2) years of experience in a prior transactional paralegal role
- Familiarity with the types of transactions the firm commonly oversees, such as commercial loans, real estate, loan transactions, mergers and acquisitions, or corporate governance activities
Qualifications:
- Maintain a positive, “can-do” attitude, while working in a fast-paced working environment
- Clear and effective communication and strong people skills; strong grammar, spelling, and punctuation
- Able to work independently or as a team in a collaborative environment
- Strong diligence with great emphasis on accuracy and quality
- Prioritize tasks and provide support and response to requests on time
- Advance knowledge of MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat
- Demonstrate capability of researching local court rules to ensure proper methods of e-filing
- Able to quickly learn e-filing in out-of-state district courts and federal district court systems
- Knowledge of legal procedures, legal terminology, and e-discovery databases such as Relativity
- Strong document formatting experience
- Demonstrate a solid technical aptitude in the Firm’s software (e.g., NetDocuments, Elite, etc.)
- Ability to work with a multitude of software/web-based applications
- Operate standard office equipment such as telephones, conferencing equipment, photocopiers, scanners, postage machines, etc.
- Flexible to meet the unique needs of each individual attorney to support their practice and/or to support the specific needs of a client matter
- Use proper judgement and discretion when dealing with sensitive, confidential information
- Ability to manage stressful situations in a professional and courteous manner
- Awareness of transaction goals and the ability to anticipate tasks and pace of work needed to reach goals and desired outcomes
- Proven project management, organization, and planning skills with the ability to prioritize multiple tasks and projects to meet tight deadlines
Benefits:
Enjoy a competitive salary and discretionary compensation along with a comprehensive benefits package:
- Eligible for health and dental insurance on day one
- Free Teladoc appointments with the ‘Healthiest You’ app
- Firm-funded disability insurance plan and group term life coverage
- Supplemental life, vision, AFLAC, and pet insurance
- 401(k) and profit-sharing plan (subject to plan eligibility service date)
- Parental Leave
- Lactation Room(s) in each office location
- Paid bar and professional memberships
- Paid continuing legal education
- Internal support for business development and practice marketing
- Remote work flexibility with a strong office culture
Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be required to read from hard-copy paper and computer screen, sit, talk, hear, use wrist, hands, and fingers repetitively to type, write, operate computer and other office equipment/machinery, handle and grasp paper and other office objects. Additionally, the person in this position will remain in a stationary sitting position 90% of the time working on a computer; occasionally moving about our office to visit and meet with others and/or attend meetings, access file cabinets, use office machinery, etc., which will require bending and lifting of items less than 25 lbs. The typical office environment is of moderate noise level, an indoor temperate environment, and light levels that are bright and conducive to minimal eye strain. Little to no travel is expected for this position.
The qualifications, physical demands, and work environment described herein are representative of those an employee will encounter and must meet to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities.
Gable Gotwals is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or other factors protected by law.
