Paralegal – Litigation & Commercial
Job Description
At Forge (NYSE: FRGE), we know our team is our greatest asset. As technology innovators in the private market, our vision is to deliver a richer future for everyone. We live that vision through our values of being bold, humble and accountable. We experience the value that our vision brings to the world every day, helping the teams behind the greatest innovations of our generation, from space travel to planet-saving, plant-based nutrition and more.
With liquidity solutions, exclusive data and insights, a custody offering, and a vibrant marketplace, Forge’s goal is to build the best-in-class technology infrastructure to power a global private market that is transparent, accessible and seamless for companies, their employees and investors. Through Forge, employees can sell their private shares, employers can reward shareholders with pre-IPO liquidity and individual and institutional investors can participate in private unicorn growth.
Forge's differentiated global marketplace addresses rising demand among individual and institutional investors for exposure to private company stocks and it is building a growing network effect with defensible competitive advantages. The Forge marketplace has over 440,000 registered users and private shares have traded in more than 500 companies since inception, representing over $12 billion in volume across over 21,000+ transactions.
Our ability to offer these powerful financial solutions has generated incredible interest from investors, demand from customers, and a need to grow our team to meet the needs of more companies, teams and innovators in this way.
The Role:
The Forge Legal Team is looking for an experienced paralegal to support the team’s litigation and commercial teams. This position reports to the General Counsel, Product & Commercial.
This role is open to remote work in: San Francisco, Chicago; or New York City.
Responsibilities:
- Primary internal point-of-contact for the collection, review, and production of documents in response to subpoenas, warrants, and other document requests from state and federal regulators, industry self-regulating organizations, and others
- Correspond with government agencies, including law enforcement, regulators, and external counsel
- Assist with the management of Forge’s litigation and arbitration matters, including scheduling and docketing, review of filings, preparation for trial, and correspondence with outside counsel and law enforcement and regulatory agencies
- Support Forge’s internal legal operations function, including contract and document management platforms
- Perform initial review of vendor agreements and support Forge’s vendor management process
- Aid with data privacy, information security, labor, employment and people team (HR) matters as they arise
- Support the legal team’s innovation to provide better and more efficient legal services to Forge’s diverse business units
Qualifications:
- 2+ years’ experience as a litigation paralegal familiar in a law firm with a multi-jurisdictional practice
- Strong experience in the collection, review, and production of documents in response to subpoenas, warrants, and private litigation
- Familiarity with government agencies and law enforcement
- Excellent writing skills
- Support for commercial, general corporate, or employment legal departments and prior in-house experience a plus
- Possess an understanding of contract management platforms and legal billing software (e.g. Legal Tracker)
- Have prior involvement drafting, revising and formatting contracts and other corporate documents
- Be proactive, efficient, a self-starter, responsive, willing, and able to function autonomously
- Desire to work collaboratively with and learn from internal and external attorneys, other paralegals and internal clients
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal, communication, organizational and time-management skills
- Proficiency with project management systems (i.e. Jira and Asana), and Salesforce also a plus
- Must be able to sit and/or stand for long periods of time in an office setting or in home office setting while working
Forge implements a mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policy, which applies to all employees. All employees covered by this policy are required to be fully vaccinated as a term and condition of employment at Forge. Employees are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after completing primary vaccination with a COVID-19 vaccine, with, if applicable, at least the minimum recommended interval between doses. Employees must provide truthful and accurate information about their COVID-19 vaccination status, and, if applicable, their testing results as of the first date of their employment.
Employees may request an exception from this mandatory vaccination policy if the vaccine is medically contraindicated for them or medical necessity requires a delay in vaccination. Employees also may be legally entitled to a reasonable accommodation if they cannot be vaccinated because of a disability, or if the provisions in this policy for vaccination conflict with a sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance. All such requests will be handled in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
Forge is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Date Posted
02/14/2023
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