US Paralegal - Analyst

Overview

Provides paralegal-level corporate and litigation support for FME's US legal matters from the GBS India Legal Center of Excellence in Bangalore, under the direction of US-based attorneys.

What you'll do

• Post documents to the legal tracker and other matter-management systems.
• Open new cases/matters and set up corresponding legal tracker records.
• Support onboarding of outside counsel.
• Support vendor setup for settlement payments.
• Liaise with registered agents on entity filings.
• Assist in responding to know-your-customer (KYC) inquiries from banks and financial institutions.
• Maintain the annual US attorney registration/licensing verification list.
• Procure apostilles for cross-border document legalization.
• Maintain the legal tracker.
• Liaise with the Philippines-based accounts payable team on legal billing matters.
• Perform general administrative assistant responsibilities in support of the legal team.
• Create redlines and comparisons of contracts to support attorney review.
• Route contracts for internal approvals and signatures, and obtain signatures for contract execution.
• Upload documents to virtual data rooms ("clean rooms") to support due diligence and transaction processes.
• Coordinate settlement payments.
• Monitor the damages tracking spreadsheet and track monetary recoveries.
• Set up, maintain and release legal holds; update legal referrals internally.
• Support responses to subpoenas involving FME employees (where FME is not a party), under attorney direction.
• Perform these tasks independently with limited supervision from supervising attorneys and the Paralegal Manager; may begin to review and guide administrative/entry-level colleagues on routine instances of this work.
• Make decisions on moderately complex to complex coordination, drafting and administrative matters, often requiring judgment about process and prioritization; escalate matters requiring legal interpretation, litigation strategy, or transaction terms to supervising attorneys.
• Influence team-level process improvements (e.g. legal tracker usage, workflow standardization) without setting functional strategy.
• Represent FME in routine coordination with external parties (registered agents, banks on KYC matters, document-legalization services) within a clearly defined, attorney-authorized scope.
• Modify existing administrative and coordination processes to improve efficiency; does not set new firm-wide policy independently.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree (law degree not required).
• Bachelor's degree with approximately 3-6 years of relevant experience, including experience in corporate and/or litigation paralegal support, ideally supporting US legal matters from an LPO, GCC/GBS, or in-house legal environment.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Strong organizational skills and high attention to detail; ability to manage multiple concurrent administrative and coordination workstreams.
• Discretion and ability to handle confidential corporate and litigation-related information.

Nice to have

• Paralegal certificate or equivalent qualification.
• Familiarity with US corporate entity administration (registered agents, KYC/banking compliance, attorney licensing tracking) and litigation support processes (legal holds, subpoena response, settlement tracking).
• Experience with legal matter-management/tracker systems, contract redlining/comparison tools, and virtual data room platforms.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.
• Hybrid work setup.