What are the responsibilities and job description for the Paralegal position at Jelly Belly Candy Company?
SUMMARY
The Paralegal will assist the Legal Department in managing the company’s global IP portfolio and provide paraprofessional services including legal research, contract review, and preparing and analyzing legal documents. The Paralegal must be willing and able to perform the following tasks:
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Monitor and perform review as well as analysis of possible trademark infringers using a brand protection software. Assist in IP enforcement matters.
Work with foreign counsel related to foreign trademark applications, renewals, and maintenance, including POA and legalizations.
Research, document, and prepare evidence for all types of trademark matters.
Assist with reviewing of license agreements, letter of intent, labeling, and trademark/patent searches.
Communicate with clients, internal legal team and outside counsel and respond to requests regarding trademark, copyright and other IP issues and questions.
Oversee filing, prosecution and maintenance of local international trademark applications and registrations, including communicating directly with foreign counsel and docketing deadlines.
Maintain internal records tracking key license terms, trademark filings/registrations, trademark marking guidelines, etc.
Performs legal research including statutory and case law and drafts forms, research memoranda, proposed rules, orders and other documents.
Takes primary responsibility for management of the contract database; maintain clause library.
Assists with drafting and revising legal documents, including various commercial agreements, forms, regulatory documents, court documents and letters.
Ability to complete day-to-day tasks while also exercising independent judgement, being resourceful, and incorporating a strategic level of thinking. Uphold a strict level of confidentiality. Strong attention to detail.
Other duties as assigned.
Inherent in each position is a general duty to maintain each respective work area in a safe and sanitary condition. Regular, predictable, full-time attendance is required as an essential function of this position. The employee may be required to perform other such duties within the scope of their employment as may be assigned. The employee must also possess the ability to take direction, follow instructions, work with others, follow work rules and schedules, and focus on details.
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
A certificate from an ABA-approved paralegal program. A BA/BS is preferred. Minimum five (5) years’ of applicable substantive experience as a paralegal in a law firm or in-house legal department. Prior experience with trademark enforcement, trademark litigation, and/or trademark prosecution is preferred.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
REASONING ABILITY
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk. The employee is occasionally required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
COMPUTER SKILLS
To perform this job successfully, an individual should have proficiency in Outlook, Excel, Explorer or Firefox web browsers, Adobe Acrobat, and be highly proficient in Word.
**All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.**