Job Description

Seeking an experienced, highly organized, and independent Corporate Paralegal for an in-house opportunity with a company that specializes in boutique, luxury hotel properties. This role reports to the Head of Business and combines corporate governance, legal operations, and administrative oversight. The Corporate Paralegal will serve as a key point of contact ensuring timely execution of legal documentation, managing governance processes, overseeing corporate filings, and maintaining a secure, structured system for document storage. This is an excellent opportunity for a legal professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and seeks broad exposure across corporate, real estate, and hospitality matters. This role is fully on-site in NYC (SoHo location).

Responsibilities

Legal documentation support

• Support in execution of legal documentation
• Maintain and improve legal documentation storage and organization systems
• Develop and maintain property-specific signatory guidelines and contract review thresholds.
• Develop and maintain a repository of outside counsel for specific matters, track outside counsel usage

Governance support

• Schedule and set agendas for internal committee meetings.
• Record accurate meeting minutes and circulate resolutions and follow-up items.
• Maintain a secure, version-controlled repository of board minutes, resolutions, and governance documents.
• Develop consistent standards and processes for governance documentation

Compliance

• Develop and maintain a centralized calendar of all corporate filings, expirations, and entity registrations; support in renewals as needed
• Develop and maintain a process to ensure workplace compliance

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; paralegal certification or legal training preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in a corporate paralegal or legal operations role
• Strong understanding of corporate governance, contract management, and compliance processes.
• Ability to manage sensitive information with discretion and sound judgment.
• Exceptional organizational skills and comfort managing multiple concurrent workflows .

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting real estate, hospitality, or private investment organizations a plus.

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