Legal Assistant

Mintel is an international leader in providing consumer market research and competitive intelligence tools as well as in delivering customized consulting solutions to top-tier organizations.  With global headquarters in London and US headquarters in Chicago, Mintel has been a market leader for over fifty years.  As a result of consistent year over year growth and significant future market opportunity, we now seek a Legal Assistant to join the Legal Department in Chicago to work on projects both domestic and foreign.

This position contributes to our success by fulfilling the roles of administrator and processor.  As an administrator, you will win the confidence of colleagues with competent management of databases for contracts, trademarks, and copyrights and with your timely, regular reporting from those information troves.  As a processor, you will relish the detail in and production of your timely written work and satisfy your conscientious bent by making and implementing process-improvements based on best-practice, research, and analysis.

This role is based in Chicago and requires the individual to work a hybrid schedule of 2 days in-office and 3 days remote weekly.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Maintain databases of contracts, trademarks, and copyrights, and prepare and timely distribute reports
• Prepare and submit corporate annual reports; maintain business licenses and certificates of insurance
• Maintain and improve the Mintel Legal knowledge center
• Prepare, review, and process legal documents, including order forms, standard terms and conditions, NDAs, POAs, GDPR addenda, and contract amendments, within defined parameters
• Implement language changes across legal forms cache
• Communicate with various intra-company departments and external contacts (including customer procurement and legal counsel) to clarify and resolve contract issues
• Perform research projects associated with commercial arrangements and intellectual property 
• Coach legal interns

Who We Are Looking For:

While we may have a wish list, we are always open to looking at different profiles for our roles, so please don’t hesitate in applying even if your experience does not check all of the boxes. We believe there is no one perfect resume for a role, but there is a perfect candidate for us, and that could be you.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree with strong academic record
• Driven: You are passionate about client service and motivated to help your internal and external clients resolve problems in a timely manner.
• People Smart: You are able to easily adapt to different personalities and levels within an organization.
• Naturally curious: You are naturally curious and takes initiative to identify, evangelize, and systematize new efficiencies
• Learner: You are humble, yet confident. You willingly admit when you need help, and you know how and when to utilize the resources and people around you. You are also willing to share your own knowledge for the benefit of the team.
• Self-Directed: You take initiative to solve problems and uncover opportunities, and you work well in a document intensive and time sensitive environment
• Great communicator: You have extremely polished verbal and written communication skills, and can adapt your communication style to suit each client and internal business partner. 
• Tech-savvy: You are able to find creative ways to help clients. Ideally you have experience with e-commerce, privacy, and intellectual property. Experience with Salesforce.com and contract lifecycle management system a plus
• Industry Expert: You will have experience in market research, e-commerce, or intellectual property a plus 

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