Commercial Real Estate Paralegal

Dorough & Dorough, LLC; Decatur (GA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

STD

LTD

Other insurances

401(k)

PTO

Bonus structures

Job summary

Dorough & Dorough, LLC is a boutique real-estate and community association law firm located in downtown Decatur, GA, seeking an experienced Commercial Real Estate Paralegal to join its real estate and development team.

You will draft closing documents, review title work, coordinate closings, and manage post-closing tasks to support complex transactions for developers, lenders, and clients. A collaborative environment and thorough benefits package accompany this role.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to understand commercial sales contracts and closing conditions.
• Attention to dates, deadlines, and closing mechanics.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Understand commercial contracts and closing dates.
• Draft deeds, estoppel certificates, mortgage releases and related docs.
• Coordinate closing logistics and file recordation.
• Prepare title commitments and review title abstracts.
• Order surveys and manage post-closing documents.
• Process vendor invoices and maintain time records.

Skills

Review contracts & closing conditions

Draft closing documents

Coordinate closings

Title exam coordination

Communication with clients/lenders

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

Orion

Landtech

Job description

Dorough & Dorough, LLC, a boutique real-estate and community association law firm located in downtown Decatur, is looking for an experienced Commercial Real Estate Paralegal to join its real estate and development team.

Duties and responsibilities will include:

• Ability to understand commercial sales contracts with attention to critical dates and closing conditions
• Draft closing documents including: deeds, bills of sale, estoppel certificates, indemnification agreements, mortgage releases, UCC financing statements, title affidavits, lien waivers, etc.
• Basic mathematical skills necessary to coordinate disbursement of transaction proceeds and preparation of closing statements.
• Order and analyze title examination abstracts, review exceptions to titles, and prepare title objection and response letters, as appropriate for the transaction, and necessary documents to correct or clear title.
• Prepare title insurance commitments, working through complex title issues and complete post-closing title work and issuance of title policies.
• Order and analyze surveys; prepare and review legal descriptions
• Coordinate closing logistics; prepare closing checklists; oversee execution of documents and recordation of appropriate documents; organize complex transactional files
• Coordinate post-closing follow-up including recording documents, wiring funds, obtaining necessary cancellation documents, organizing and indexing files and overseeing preparation of closing documents binders
• Prepare and file entity organizational, amendatory, and dissolution/termination documents; prepare and file foreign qualifications and withdrawals
• Process and track vendor invoices
• Keep accurate time records

Desired qualifications include:

• Excellent verbal, writing and organizational skills, attention to detail and effective time management.
• Ability to communicate and work directly with title abstractors, clients, lenders, brokers, etc.
• Experience with legal office software, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Orion and Landtech.

We are a tight-knit, family friendly law firm that prides itself on a good work-life balance, looking for a detail-oriented, self-motivated, and organized person with excellent communication and computer skills.

We offer a full comprehensive benefit package including

• medical
• dental
• vision
• STD
• LTD
• other supplemental insurances
• 401K
• PTO
• bonus structures

Salary is based on experience.

Dorough & Dorough, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

About Dorough & Dorough, LLC

Dorough & Dorough, LLC is located on the courthouse square in Decatur, Georgia and offers a wide range of real estate related legal services, including serving some of the most successful national, regional and local builders and developers of planned communities and condominium projects in Georgia. We are dedicated to providing the finest professional legal representation to our clients in a timely and cost effective manner. We are committed to establishing long term relationships with our clients which we believe result from mutual respect and personal service.