Paralegal

Description

TITLE: Paralegal

REPORTS TO: Senior Corporate Counsel, Lactalis Heritage Dairy

LOCATION: Chicago, IL

Lactalis Heritage Dairy is currently seeking candidates to join our team in Chicago. 

Lactalis Group, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT, and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do.

If you’re looking for a unique experience with a company that offers strong brands, professional expertise, and a dynamic work environment that champions entrepreneurial spirit, hands-on responsibility, and real opportunity for career development, we want to hear from you!

Lactalis Heritage Dairy: inviting you to share with us your STORY, your PASSION, and your EXPERTISE.

From your PASSION to ours

We are a small legal department. The General Counsel and the Senior Corporate Counsel currently support all legal aspects of the Lactalis Heritage Dairy (“LHD”) business, including its KRAFT and CRACKER BARREL natural cheese business and its KNUDSEN and BREAKSTONE cultured business. These two attorneys look forward to welcoming a dynamic paralegal to the department, who will work on routine agreements, corporate filings, matter management, and budget management. The Paralegal will also work on a range of special projects, some of which are listed below, but others of which are as yet unforeseen. These projects will benefit the law department but will also involve extensive interaction with other LHD functions, such as Finance, Sales, HR, Quality, and Supply Chain. 

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include

The Paralegal will work closely with the Senior Corporate Counsel on special projects, including (for example): 

• Implementation of LHD’s contract lifecycle management platform;
• Monitoring of private sustainability initiatives and municipal and state sustainability laws and regulations as they might impact LHD’s business
• Researching other proposed legislation that might impact LHD’s business
• Proposing process-flow improvements to increase the cross-functional efficiency and effectiveness of the legal department      

The Paralegal’s day-to-day responsibilities will include: 

• Reviewing and revising routine agreements (with attorney supervision), such as confidentiality agreements and vendor agreements 
• Preparing routine corporate governance documents and state filings (with attorney supervision)
• Tracking spend against the law department’s budget, including by preparing related reports
• Updating internal matter management database (with attorney input and oversight) 
• Review, verify, and process outside counsel invoices
• Perform additional legal research, as needed 

Requirements

From your STORY to ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

• Bachelor’s degree and strong record of academic success
• Curiosity, ambition, and humility 
• Strong desire to learn more, and achieve more, to support the team’s success
• Strong communication skills: ability to clearly and concisely advise cross-functional partners and to actively listen to their questions, concerns, and goals 
• Strong organizational skills 
• Strong computer skills, including high proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook