Legal Assistant, Paralegal

Summary

Join PadSplit as a Legal Assistant/Paralegal to streamline legal processes, ensuring timely legal filings and investigations. You will collaborate with internal stakeholders to enhance processes and provide crucial support to the legal team. This role involves managing documents, conducting internal investigations, communicating with stakeholders, and maintaining legal records. The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, and possesses strong communication skills. Experience with zoning or real estate is a plus. This fully remote position offers competitive compensation and benefits, including equity, comprehensive healthcare, unlimited PTO, and paid parental leave.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with prior experience in a law firm, corporate legal department, law enforcement, or a similar investigative environment
• Strong understanding of legal concepts and processes, particularly in litigation, investigations, and zoning regulations
• Excel at conducting thorough research, analyzing data, and solving complex problems effectively
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to discuss sensitive topics with external and internal stakeholders professionally and with discretion
• High level of proficiency with Google Workspace
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple tasks, deadlines, and priorities simultaneously
• Exceptional accuracy and thoroughness in all work, especially when handling legal documents and data
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion and communicate effectively about legal or potentially contentious matters
• A proactive self-starter who thrives in ambiguous situations and can work independently without needing close supervision
• Strong interpersonal skills, time management abilities, and a problem-solving mindset, with comfort addressing high-stakes or complex issues

Responsibilities

• Collect, organize, and manage documents and data to respond to litigation and investigative requests, ensuring accuracy and thoroughness
• At the direction of in-house counsel, prepare materials for discovery and investigation requests, drawing from internal sources
• Conduct internal investigations into alleged safety incidents at PadSplit homes, including speaking with members/tenants and homeowners as needed
• Document and track safety investigations, maintaining detailed and organized records for future reference
• Provide clear and timely communication to hosts, ensuring they understand their responsibilities and available resources in coordination with the Host Advocate team
• Maintain and update a litigation and insurance claim tracker, recording case statuses, deadlines, and critical timelines to support timely legal responses
• Monitor and manage a database of code enforcement notices, including communicating with hosts about these issues
• Draft and send host communications to hosts about sensitive matters via Zendesk
• Process and track invoices from outside counsel, ensuring accurate record-keeping
• Support in-house counsel with other legal administrative tasks while upholding confidentiality and protecting sensitive data

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with zoning or real estate
• Familiarity with Zendesk and Slack

Benefits

• Fully remote position
• Competitive compensation package including an equity incentive plan
• National medical, dental, and vision healthcare plans
• Company provided life insurance policy
• Optional accidental insurances, FSA, and DCFSA benefits
• Unlimited paid-time (PTO) policy with eleven (11) company-observed holidays
• 401(k) plan
• Twelve (12) weeks of paid time off for both birth and non-birth parents
• The opportunity to do what you love at a company that is at the forefront of solving the affordable housing crisis
• $60,000 - $80,000 a year