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Job Location drjobs

Chicago, IL - USA

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

At Cision we believe in empowering every individual to make an impact. Here your voice is heard your ideas are valued and your unique perspective fuels our collective success. As part of our global team youll thrive in an environment that champions curiosity collaboration and innovation all while making meaningful contributions to the brands we accelerate.
Join us in shaping the future of communication and building authentic connections that matter. Whether youre solving complex problems or driving bold innovations your growth is our success and together well create the conversations of tomorrow.
Empower your impact at Cision. Be seen be understood be you.

Job Summary
The Legal Assistant provides highlevel administrative and operational support to the legal department ensuring the team runs smoothly and efficiently. This role manages scheduling across global time zones maintains internal systems and records and supports coordination of invoices expenses and legal team activities. The position is essential to the daytoday organization and communication flow of a fastpaced collaborative legal team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Independently manage complex scheduling across global time zones including supporting the General Counsel and Deputy General Counsels calendars legal team meetings and external partner calls. Book travel and handle logistics as needed.
Maintain legal department systems trackers and shared folders
Support data entry file management and organization across contract logs matter management tools and cloudbased filing systems to ensure documents are accurate and up to date.
Process legal invoices and manage expense submissions
Review incoming legal invoices for completeness and cost code accuracy submit for approval and track expenses and accruals in collaboration with General Counsel and finance.
Support onboarding and team culture initiatives
Help welcome new legal team members by managing onboarding checklists scheduling introductory meetings and assisting with team engagement activities events and celebrations.
Prepare meeting agendas presentations take notes and track followups
Draft agendas PowerPoints for meetings capture key takeaways and action items and assist with meeting logistics for departmentwide meetings vendor checkins and projectrelated calls.
Coordinate document execution and signature workflows
Manage signature requests and routing of standard agreements using DocuSign or other tools. Ensure timely execution and proper filing of completed documents

Minimum Required Qualifications
Bachelors Degree (or equivalent experience)
35 years of experience supporting inhouse legal departments or law firms in a fastpaced corporate environment.
Prior experience providing administrative calendaring and document support to legal teams including attorneys and legal operations professionals.
Basic understanding of fundamental concepts practices and procedures and ability to apply in varied situations.

As a global leader in PR marketing and social media management technology and intelligence Cision helps brands and organizations to identify connect and engage with customers and stakeholders to drive business results. PR Newswire a network of over 1.1 billion influencers indepth monitoring analytics and media platforms headline a premier suite of solutions. Cision has offices in 24 countries throughout the Americas EMEA and APAC. For more information about Cisions awardwinning solutions including its nextgen Cision Communications Cloud follow @Cision on Twitter.
Cision is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and perform at their best. We believe diversity equity and inclusion is vital to driving our culture sparking innovation and achieving longterm success. Cision is proud to have joined more than 600 companies in signing theCEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledgeand named a Top Diversity Employer for 2021 .

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