Paralegal - Regulatory

Description This; Reno (NV); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Description This is seeking a highly organized paralegal to support attorneys with legal research, document drafting, regulatory submissions, and discovery. The role focuses on state and federal forums and requires meticulous attention to detail.

Candidates should have a bachelor’s degree and 2+ years paralegal experience; or six years without a degree. Proficiency with Westlaw/LexisNexis, PACER, MS Office, and related tools is expected.

Qualifications

• Nevada and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure knowledge and research.
• Experience with regulatory filings and legal documents.
• Detail oriented, able to manage multiple tasks.

Responsibilities

• Assists attorney in research, tracking and preparation of legal documents.
• Prepares regulatory filings for submission to PUCN and FERC.
• Identifies relevant judicial decisions, statutes, and legal articles.
• Drafts pleadings, regulatory documents, data requests, and testimony.
• Organizes files, maintains schedules, and coordinates subpoenas.
• Provides training and backup support for secretarial staff.

Skills

Legal research

Regulatory filings

Document drafting

Westlaw/LexisNexis

PACER

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Description

Basic Purpose

Provides a wide range of professional legal support services to attorneys in the form of legal research, summarizing legal documents, providing litigation and pre-trial discovery support, analyzing data, drafting of legal and business communications. Primary focus will be on state and federal regulatory forums. Provides support to the in‑house regulatory attorneys. Works in a professional environment and has occasional contact with the public, governmental agencies and regulatory agencies, law firms, and management.

Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Assists attorney(s) in research, tracking and preparation of legal documents:

Performs records, legal and factual research. Prepares regulatory filings for submission to the PUCN and FERC.

Identifies relevant judicial decisions, statutes, legal articles, codes and other pertinent material.

Prepares correspondence, written reports and helps prepare legal arguments, applications, declarations, motions and litigation strategy.

Drafts legal documents including pleadings, regulatory documents, data requests, data request responses, testimony, reports, presentations, discovery, briefs, appeals, contracts and legal agreements.

Checks legal forms, exhibits and documents for accuracy. Organizes, analyzes, cross‑checks and validates information as needed.

Assists the lawyers during hearings, trials and arbitrations.

Provides training, oversight, and mentoring of secretarial position, ensuring compliance with processes. Provides backup secretarial support as needed.

Locates and communicates with witnesses, including identification of witnesses, preparation of questions/issues to be addressed in interviews and handling witness interviews as assigned.

Maintains file system for legal documents, and case calendars.

Organizes and tracks regulatory filings and physical files.

Helps coordinate subpoena delivery and other law‑office activities.

Performs Records Coordinator duties in compliance with corporate records retention policies.

Backup management of the Legal Hold process including preparation and issuance of notices, maintenance of database, coordination with key stakeholders and performance of searches.

Reviews and monitors new and updated regulations. Communicates impacts as appropriate.

Ensures all compliance aspects of position are known and followed; understands and complies with all policies, codes and regulations applicable to position and company.

Performs related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Essential Education, Skills, and Environment

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited school and 2 or more years of paralegal experience.

Candidates that do not possess a bachelor’s degree must have six years of paralegal experience.

Specialized Knowledge and Skills

Demonstrated knowledge of:

Nevada and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and/or PUCN, FERC guidelines.

Applicable legal principles, legal research techniques, legal terminology, and knowledge of applicable government regulations.

Legal research on Westlaw or Lexis‑Nexis, PACER and the internet.

Demonstrated skill such as:

Detail oriented, research, analytical, critical thinking, planning, information monitoring, time management, communications, decision making, presentation, human relations, and organizational skills.

Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks.

Equipment and Applications

PCs, MS Word, MS Outlook, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Teams, database software, PACER and Westlaw/Lexis‑Nexis.

Work Environment and Physical Demands

General office environment. No special physical demands required.

Note: Immigration Sponsorship

At this time, we're not considering applicants that need any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but is NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc. For more information regarding work visas, please visit www.uscis.gov.

**NOTE: THE COMPANY MAY FILL THE POSITION(S) AT A LOWER LEVEL DEPENDING ON QUALIFICATIONS OF CANDIDATES**