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Kent Daniels and Associates, Inc.
http://www.kentdaniels.com
http://www.kentdaniels.com
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Paralegal
300 South Grand Avenue 25th Floor , Suite 750 Los Angeles, CA 90071 US
2025-04-09
2025-05-25
Employment Type:
Direct Hire
Position Type: Paralegal
Job Number: 25457
Rate DOE: $85,000 to $95,000
Job Description
Position: Paralegal
Location: Downtown Los Angeles, CA (Remote)
Pay: $85,000 to $95,000 annually
Experience: 4+ years of experience in commercial and municipal real estate transactions and knowledge in corporate and business transaction matters to assist attorneys in the drafting and review of purchase and sale agreements, lease agreements, commercial loan transactions, due diligence and escrow instructions and closings for the real estate matters as well as corporation formation, maintenance, dissolution of domestic and foreign entities on the corporate matters.
Education: A paralegal certificate or attorney attestation is required.
Type: Full-time; Direct Hire
Schedule: Day Shift, 9am – 5:30pm
Kent Daniels & Associates is seeking a Paralegal to join our dynamic law firm client!
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
Corporate Duties:
Position Requirements:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
Location: Downtown Los Angeles, CA (Remote)
Pay: $85,000 to $95,000 annually
Experience: 4+ years of experience in commercial and municipal real estate transactions and knowledge in corporate and business transaction matters to assist attorneys in the drafting and review of purchase and sale agreements, lease agreements, commercial loan transactions, due diligence and escrow instructions and closings for the real estate matters as well as corporation formation, maintenance, dissolution of domestic and foreign entities on the corporate matters.
Education: A paralegal certificate or attorney attestation is required.
Type: Full-time; Direct Hire
Schedule: Day Shift, 9am – 5:30pm
Kent Daniels & Associates is seeking a Paralegal to join our dynamic law firm client!
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
- Assist attorneys in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions from contracts and loan commitments through closing and post-closing.
- Draft, review, and analyze all required correspondence and commercial purchase and sale, lease, loan, tax, and escrow documents, (Letters of Intent, Purchase and Sale Agreements, Escrow Instructions, Deeds of Trust, Promissory Notes, Releases of Liens, Continuing Guaranties, Loan Agreements, Environmental Indemnity Agreements, Leases, Estoppel Certificates, UCC forms, Security Agreements).
- Assist with commercial real estate due diligence, including title & survey reviews, title objection letters, lease reviews, municipal lien searches, and UCC, judgment, litigation, and lien searches.
- Prepare closing checklists, critical dates timelines, title commitments, title policies, closing statements, title and other affidavits, entity authorizations, buyer and seller escrow instructions, customary closing documentation.
- Responsible for closing binders (locally and nationally).
- Provide coordination efforts with respect to documentation and closing of real estate transactions, including sales, purchases, leases, and financing.
- Serves as liaison between the legal team and the client to assure quality and timely response. Daily contact with clients, opposing counsel, brokers, and escrow officers.
- Assist in performing due diligence review, including hiring consultants, corporate or other entity status (obtaining good standing certificates and certified copies of formation documents from Secretaries of State), review and analysis of environmental studies, surveys and preliminary title reports, maps and underlying title documents.
- Online research using Westlaw, Lexis, Secretary of State business portals, Board of Equalization, State and Federal Tax Form portals, and County and City portals.
- Selects, assembles, summarizes and compiles substantive information by use of federal, state, and local agency statutes, regulations, ordinances, resolutions, digests, commentaries, and legal instruments.
- Conducts legal, public records, and other research relating to simple and complex matters, summarizes findings and recommends proposed courses of action and/or solutions to the assigning attorney; is knowledgeable about internet research sources; assists with problem formulation, data collection, and analysis.
- Performs research and analysis of real property legal descriptions, property ownership, property profiles, title reports, leases, licenses, and contracts.
Corporate Duties:
- Organizes business entities of all types (corporations, limited liability companies and limited partnerships).
- Prepares and files incorporation, merger, acquisition, dissolution and related documents and prepares amendments to corporate documents.
- Prepares incorporation documents including certificate/articles of incorporation, bylaws, restricted stock purchase agreements, organizational board and stockholder resolutions and related applications, filings and documentation, checks availability of and reserves corporate entity names.
- Assists with due diligence process, tracking diligence requests and reviewing capitalization tables and underlying equity issuances, certain documents related to corporate organizational matters (including incorporation documents, minutes, and board and stockholder consents), and basic commercial contracts.
- Prepares closing deliverables (including secretary certificates, bring-down certificates, stock powers, and director and officer resignations), board and stockholder consents, and closing volumes.
- Prepares, maintains, and updates database for corporate capitalization records, drafts stock option and restricted stock agreements, effects transfers of stock and prepares stock certificates.
- Obtains and coordinates the delivery of good-standing certificates from the filing agent.
- Retrieves documents from government agencies, private document retrieval companies, and internal sources.
- Preparing annual minutes and shareholder and board resolutions.
- Maintaining minute books, corporate records, and capitalization information.
- Order and maintain corporate records and review corporate documents for making recommendations to attorneys for cleaning up corporate records.
- Drafting and arranging for UCC filings, amendments, extensions, and terminations relating primarily to secured transactions, and conducting computerized lien searches.
- Work with vendors and firm service groups to assist with corporate filings, such as annual returns, secretary of state, and business license filings.
- Maintain a tickler system for annual minutes and trademark renewals.
- Prepare correspondence to clients for attorney's signature and serve as the liaison between the legal team and the client.
Position Requirements:
- Must have knowledge of the Real Property law, Civil Code, Corporations Code, Business & Professions Code, and applicable local, state and federal governmental codes, rules and regulations.
- Possess excellent knowledge of formatting to interpret source data, prepare real estate transactional documents and forms, proofread material for grammatical, typographical, and spelling errors, and perform file maintenance.
- Excellent organizational and communication skills.
- Must be a dependable team player with the ability to act independently and make decisions within scope of the position’s responsibilities.
- Proactive with excellent troubleshooting, problem resolution, and follow-through skills.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
Job Requirements
Position: Paralegal
Location: Downtown Los Angeles, CA (Remote)
Pay: $85,000 to $95,000 annually
Experience: 4+ years of experience in commercial and municipal real estate transactions and knowledge in corporate and business transaction matters to assist attorneys in the drafting and review of purchase and sale agreements, lease agreements, commercial loan transactions, due diligence and escrow instructions and closings for the real estate matters as well as corporation formation, maintenance, dissolution of domestic and foreign entities on the corporate matters.
Education: A paralegal certificate or attorney attestation is required.
Type: Full-time; Direct Hire
Schedule: Day Shift, 9am – 5:30pm
Kent Daniels & Associates is seeking a Paralegal to join our dynamic law firm client!
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
Corporate Duties:
Position Requirements:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
Location: Downtown Los Angeles, CA (Remote)
Pay: $85,000 to $95,000 annually
Experience: 4+ years of experience in commercial and municipal real estate transactions and knowledge in corporate and business transaction matters to assist attorneys in the drafting and review of purchase and sale agreements, lease agreements, commercial loan transactions, due diligence and escrow instructions and closings for the real estate matters as well as corporation formation, maintenance, dissolution of domestic and foreign entities on the corporate matters.
Education: A paralegal certificate or attorney attestation is required.
Type: Full-time; Direct Hire
Schedule: Day Shift, 9am – 5:30pm
Kent Daniels & Associates is seeking a Paralegal to join our dynamic law firm client!
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
- Assist attorneys in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions from contracts and loan commitments through closing and post-closing.
- Draft, review, and analyze all required correspondence and commercial purchase and sale, lease, loan, tax, and escrow documents, (Letters of Intent, Purchase and Sale Agreements, Escrow Instructions, Deeds of Trust, Promissory Notes, Releases of Liens, Continuing Guaranties, Loan Agreements, Environmental Indemnity Agreements, Leases, Estoppel Certificates, UCC forms, Security Agreements).
- Assist with commercial real estate due diligence, including title & survey reviews, title objection letters, lease reviews, municipal lien searches, and UCC, judgment, litigation, and lien searches.
- Prepare closing checklists, critical dates timelines, title commitments, title policies, closing statements, title and other affidavits, entity authorizations, buyer and seller escrow instructions, customary closing documentation.
- Responsible for closing binders (locally and nationally).
- Provide coordination efforts with respect to documentation and closing of real estate transactions, including sales, purchases, leases, and financing.
- Serves as liaison between the legal team and the client to assure quality and timely response. Daily contact with clients, opposing counsel, brokers, and escrow officers.
- Assist in performing due diligence review, including hiring consultants, corporate or other entity status (obtaining good standing certificates and certified copies of formation documents from Secretaries of State), review and analysis of environmental studies, surveys and preliminary title reports, maps and underlying title documents.
- Online research using Westlaw, Lexis, Secretary of State business portals, Board of Equalization, State and Federal Tax Form portals, and County and City portals.
- Selects, assembles, summarizes and compiles substantive information by use of federal, state, and local agency statutes, regulations, ordinances, resolutions, digests, commentaries, and legal instruments.
- Conducts legal, public records, and other research relating to simple and complex matters, summarizes findings and recommends proposed courses of action and/or solutions to the assigning attorney; is knowledgeable about internet research sources; assists with problem formulation, data collection, and analysis.
- Performs research and analysis of real property legal descriptions, property ownership, property profiles, title reports, leases, licenses, and contracts.
Corporate Duties:
- Organizes business entities of all types (corporations, limited liability companies and limited partnerships).
- Prepares and files incorporation, merger, acquisition, dissolution and related documents and prepares amendments to corporate documents.
- Prepares incorporation documents including certificate/articles of incorporation, bylaws, restricted stock purchase agreements, organizational board and stockholder resolutions and related applications, filings and documentation, checks availability of and reserves corporate entity names.
- Assists with due diligence process, tracking diligence requests and reviewing capitalization tables and underlying equity issuances, certain documents related to corporate organizational matters (including incorporation documents, minutes, and board and stockholder consents), and basic commercial contracts.
- Prepares closing deliverables (including secretary certificates, bring-down certificates, stock powers, and director and officer resignations), board and stockholder consents, and closing volumes.
- Prepares, maintains, and updates database for corporate capitalization records, drafts stock option and restricted stock agreements, effects transfers of stock and prepares stock certificates.
- Obtains and coordinates the delivery of good-standing certificates from the filing agent.
- Retrieves documents from government agencies, private document retrieval companies, and internal sources.
- Preparing annual minutes and shareholder and board resolutions.
- Maintaining minute books, corporate records, and capitalization information.
- Order and maintain corporate records and review corporate documents for making recommendations to attorneys for cleaning up corporate records.
- Drafting and arranging for UCC filings, amendments, extensions, and terminations relating primarily to secured transactions, and conducting computerized lien searches.
- Work with vendors and firm service groups to assist with corporate filings, such as annual returns, secretary of state, and business license filings.
- Maintain a tickler system for annual minutes and trademark renewals.
- Prepare correspondence to clients for attorney's signature and serve as the liaison between the legal team and the client.
Position Requirements:
- Must have knowledge of the Real Property law, Civil Code, Corporations Code, Business & Professions Code, and applicable local, state and federal governmental codes, rules and regulations.
- Possess excellent knowledge of formatting to interpret source data, prepare real estate transactional documents and forms, proofread material for grammatical, typographical, and spelling errors, and perform file maintenance.
- Excellent organizational and communication skills.
- Must be a dependable team player with the ability to act independently and make decisions within scope of the position’s responsibilities.
- Proactive with excellent troubleshooting, problem resolution, and follow-through skills.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
Additional Information
Kent Daniels and Associates is a legal staffing service specializing in the placement of temporary, temp-to-hire and full-time regular employees in law firms and corporate legal departments in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and nationwide. We staff all positions in law firms and all three shifts - day, swing and graveyard. Kent Daniels was established in 1986, giving us 37 years of experience finding candidates legal jobs in law firms nationwide.
Applicants will be considered in a manner consistent with federal, state, and local requirements as applicable. Salary ranges are provided in good faith at the time of posting and represent the compensation KDA/our clients are willing to pay for the advertised position. Exact compensation will be determined by a wide range of factors including but not limited to experience level, education/training, relevant skills, business needs and location.
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