Clarity Recruiting · 5 hours ago
Real Estate Paralegal
Clarity Recruiting is a full-service law firm seeking a Real Estate Paralegal for their New York office. This role involves providing support in real estate due diligence, financings, acquisitions, syndications, and dispositions, requiring analytical and detail-oriented skills.
Responsibilities
Draft, review, and revise purchase agreements, various real estate and loan closing documents, title/survey objections, contracts, contract addendums, deeds, easement agreements, use restriction agreements, and other related and ancillary transactional documentation
Perform due diligence including title and survey reviews for financings; acquisitions and/or dispositions/sales; orders and reviews other third-party reports; zoning reports; UCC/bankruptcy searches and underlying title documents and entity documents
Research real estate laws, regulations, and case law as needed
Assist and work with outside attorneys, lenders, title companies, escrow agents, and surveyors to facilitate, resolve, and finalize various matters, related to financing, leasing, and acquisitions and/or dispositions/sales transactions
Prepare closing checklists, critical dates list, closing documents, various affidavits, certificates and resolutions and coordinate and control the closing process for various real estate transactions
Prepare and organize all closing documents and closing binders
Assist with recordation and/or filing of various legal documentation for financing and real estate transactions, corporate matters, and other matters as needed
Organizes and maintains case files using a variety of automated procedures
Meet billable goals as established by practice management
Qualification
Required
7+ years of real estate transactional experience in an AmLaw 150 firm or specialist real estate practice area
Experience with titles, surveys, deeds, and ancillary transactional documents is required
Experience MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook) is required
Must have solid time management and organizational skills; high level of accuracy and attention to detail; self-motivated and pro-active
Must be available for overtime work and travel as needed
Preferred
Paralegal certification preferred
Benefits
Discretionary bonus
Hybrid work environment, 3 days in office, midtown NYC.