Remote Legal Assistant & Paralegal – Corporate Governance

TerrAscend; Athens (GA); Remote; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

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Job summary

TerrAscend is seeking an experienced Legal Assistant to support governance, board materials, and corporate filings. The role includes managing board documents, Diligent platform content, and entity maintenance for subsidiaries, along with drafting and reviewing Section 16 filings with external counsel under Senior Counsel supervision.

You will collaborate across departments, handle confidential information, and help streamline legal services delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Paralegal Degree or experience in a large law firm or in-house corporate law department.
• At least 4 years of paralegal experience including project and operations management, strong qualitative, analytical, and communication skills in an administrative or operations position involving legal or compliance.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools including Word, Excel, PowerPoint; SharePoint; database (Access, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Assist with entity formation, state registrations and filings and day-to-day maintenance of U.S. and international subsidiaries, including managing annual compliance with outside counsel and service providers, updating entity management platform, and assisting with execution of documents needed to maintain TerrAscend’s subsidiaries.
• Assist with implementing and maintaining compliance related policies and processes.
• Work with other members of the legal team to drive progress on cross-functional projects while looking for opportunities to improve processes to help the company scale and become more efficient.
• Respond to requests for information as needed including assisting company personnel with information or other data from the legal department, and assist auditors, outside counsel, regulatory agencies and others as required with information from corporate and legal files and minute books.
• Attend to notarization and legalization of corporate documents in the U. Assist with various equity-related matters and documentation.
• Assist with collecting documents for corporate insurance renewal.
• Discreetly handle confidential information and maintain complete confidentiality at all times.
• Act as a liaison with other departments, including senior management team, department heads, facility directors, and other corporate staff, to provide legal documents and agreements and to obtain from/furnish to government agencies information, data and forms.
• Provide some administrative support to the Legal department.

Skills

MS Office

SharePoint

Legal document handling

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Paralegal Certification/Experience

Tools

Diligent

Microsoft Word

SharePoint

Job description

TerrAscend is seeking an experienced Legal Assistant to support governance, board materials, and corporate filings. The role includes managing board documents, Diligent platform content, and entity maintenance for subsidiaries, along with drafting and reviewing Section 16 filings with external counsel under Senior Counsel supervision.

You will collaborate across departments, handle confidential information, and help streamline legal services delivery.