Paralegal

Job Details: Job Location: Central Administration - New York, NY, Position Type: Full Time, Education Level: 4 Year Degree, Salary Range: $35.00 - $38.46Hourly, Travel Percentage: None, Job Shift: Day, Job Category: Human Resources, Comunilife, Inc. is looking for an experienced Paralegal to join its Legal Team. The Paralegal, Legal & Compliance provides administrative and substantive paralegal support to the General Counsel in the day-to-day management of Comunilife’s legal, compliance, governance, contract, lease, litigation, and records-retention matters. The position will support and, over time, grow into responsibility for maintaining legal-management systems, tracking contractual obligations and critical dates, coordinating litigation and outside counsel, preparing board and executive materials, and working with staff across the organization to support legal and compliance requirements. Candidates are not expected to have experience in every area of responsibility at the outset. The ideal candidate will bring strong organizational skills, sound judgment, discretion, attention to detail, and, importantly, the ability and desire to learn, take on increasing responsibility, and grow into the role under the supervision and guidance of the General Counsel. This position is eligible for Comunilife's generous benefits and paid time off package. Essential Duties: Maintain the Legal Department's centralized matter-management system, calendars, task lists, status reports, and follow-up logs, including responsibility assignments, deadlines, next steps, and supporting documents. Assist with litigation, claims, subpoenas, administrative proceedings, investigations, and pre-litigation disputes by organizing files; maintaining chronologies, pleadings, discovery, correspondence, and key-date calendars; coordinating document collection and legal holds; supporting discovery responses; and monitoring deadlines and case status. Serve as a day-to-day liaison among the General Counsel, Comunilife staff, insurers, brokers, vendors, government agencies, and outside counsel; schedule calls, gather information, route requests, and follow up on open items while preserving attorney-client privilege and confidentiality. Review and abstract contracts, leases, amendments, engagement letters, licenses, grants, and other legal documents. Record key terms such as parties, scope, fees, payment obligations, renewal and expiration dates, notice periods, termination rights, insurance requirements, indemnification, reporting duties, deliverables, consent requirements, and compliance obligations. Maintain contract and lease repositories and obligation calendars; issue advance reminders; obtain required certificates, notices, reports, approvals, and supporting documentation; and escalate missed deadlines, discrepancies, or noncompliance to the General Counsel. Support contract administration by tracking drafts, approvals, signatures, amendments, renewal decisions, insurance certificates, vendor documentation, and fully executed copies. Confirm that final documents are properly named, indexed, retained, and accessible to authorized staff. Administer document-retention and legal-hold processes in coordination with Legal, Compliance, Information Technology, Human Resources, Finance, Property Management, and program staff. Maintain retention schedules, hold notices, acknowledgments, custodial records, disposition documentation, and audit trails. Assist with organizational policy management, including maintaining the policy inventory and review calendar; tracking responsible owners, revision histories, approvals, training requirements, attestations, and implementation dates; and coordinating timely periodic reviews. Prepare clear, accurate materials for the Board of Directors and committees, including presentations, agendas, resolutions, written consents, briefing summaries, talking points, supporting exhibits, approval trackers, and follow-up items. Proofread for accuracy, consistency, and completeness. Support corporate governance and affiliate-entity administration by maintaining organizational records, governing documents, committee charters, resolutions, approvals, signature records, conflict disclosures, and other corporate records. Conduct factual and legal research at the direction of the General Counsel; summarize findings; prepare first drafts of routine correspondence, notices, forms, memoranda, checklists, procedures, and other legal or compliance documents for attorney review. Assist with compliance monitoring, audits, trainings, internal reviews, and corrective-action tracking. Gather and organize supporting evidence, maintain issue logs, document follow-up, and escalate overdue or high-risk items. Review incoming legal and compliance communications, identify responsive deadlines and responsible departments, and ensure timely routing and follow-up. Elevate legal questions to the General Counsel. Develop and improve templates, trackers, workflows, naming conventions, and standard operating procedures for Legal and Compliance to increase accuracy, consistency, security, and efficiency. Handle confidential, privileged, personnel, client, tenant, financial, health, and business information with discretion and in accordance with Comunilife policies and applicable law. Perform other related legal, compliance, governance, and administrative duties as assigned by the General Counsel. Qualifications: Education and Experience Requirement: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and a paralegal certificate from an ABA-approved program preferred; an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be considered. At least two years of progressively responsible paralegal or legal-operations experience, preferably supporting an in-house legal department, nonprofit organization, health or human-services provider, housing organization, law firm, or similarly regulated environment. Demonstrated experience managing litigation files and outside counsel, abstracting contracts or leases, calendaring obligations and deadlines, administering records-retention or legal-hold processes, and preparing executive or board materials. Comunilife is an EEO employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.