Senior Law Analyst

American Public Life Insurance Company; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

American Fidelity seeks a seasoned legal assistant/paralegal to prepare and review documents for the Law Department across the Company and affiliates in Oklahoma City. The role requires five+ years in relevant areas such as insurance, transactions or employee benefits, with strong drafting and coordination abilities.

You will analyze legal sources, draft materials, and support attorneys with minimal supervision, communicating clearly with internal teams and external counsel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred or ABA-paralegal certification in lieu of degree.
• Minimum of five years experience as a legal assistant/paralegal in insurance, transactional, litigation or employee benefits.
• Experience drafting, reviewing, organizing, and managing legal documents related to trusts, governance, investment transactions, M&A due diligence, and closing materials.
• Ability to coordinate with internal stakeholders, trustees, family office teams, company officers, outside counsel, accountants, investment advisors, and other external advisors to manage legal projects.
• Proficiency with legal technology, document management systems, matter tracking, workflow improvements, and process enhancements designed to improve efficiency, consistency, visibility, and risk management.
• Strong analytical, organizational, written and verbal communication, interpersonal, and consultative skills, including the ability to support training on trust administration, governance, transactional processes, and compliance obligations.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and review legal documents applicable to position's area of specialty for approval and use by the Law Department across the Company and affiliates.
• Research and analyze legal sources and documents to provide legal support services to attorneys, internal clients and outside counsel with minimal supervision.
• Communicate complex information, both written and oral, to Colleagues at all levels of the Company and affiliates.

Skills

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Written and verbal communication

Interpersonal skills

Consultative skills

Coordination with stakeholders

Project management

Legal document management

Education

Bachelor's degree

ABA-accredited paralegal certification

Tools

Legal document management systems

Matter tracking

Workflow improvements

Job description

• Prepare and review legal documents applicable to position's area of specialty for approval and use by the Law Department across the Company and affiliates.
• Research and analyze legal sources and documents to provide legal support services to attorneys, internal clients and outside counsel with minimal supervision.
• Communicate complex information, both written and oral, to Colleagues at all levels of the Company and affiliates.

Requirements

Requirements: Bachelor's Degree preferred or requires Paralegal certification by an American Bar Association accredited program in lieu of Bachelor's Degree and minimum of five years experience as an insurance, transactional, litigation and/or employee benefits specialist legal assistant/paralegal. Minimum of five years of legal assistant/paralegal experience in a relevant legal specialty, including trust administration, corporate governance, transactions, investments, M&A support, employee benefits, litigation, general corporate matters, and project management. Experience drafting, reviewing, organizing, and managing legal documents related to trusts, corporate governance, investment transactions, M&A due diligence, entity records, related-party transactions, and closing materials. Strong ability to coordinate with internal stakeholders, trustees, family office teams, company officers, outside counsel, accountants, investment advisors, and other external advisors to manage legal projects and respond to legal inquiries. Demonstrated experience managing transaction support, including due diligence, virtual data rooms, deliverables, closing conditions, post-closing obligations, closing binders, and special legal projects. Proficiency with legal technology, document management systems, matter tracking, workflow improvements, and process enhancements designed to improve efficiency, consistency, visibility, and risk management. Strong analytical, organizational, written and verbal communication, interpersonal, and consultative skills, including the ability to support training on trust administration, governance, transactional processes, and compliance obligations.

American Fidelity is a certified Great Place to Work for All! No matter where you work in the organization, you have a chance to make a difference. Our culture focuses on helping Colleagues to be their best! We work hard to make a difference to our Customers and community, focus on teamwork and collaboration and always offer a different perspective - a different opinion. American Fidelity specializes in the education, public sector, automotive and healthcare industries with products like group and individual life, health and annuity services as well as other financial security products and services. We're focused on offering a different opinion to our Customers - making things easier for them by providing benefits administration and education. For our policyholders, we help provide financial security through our benefit offerings, which provide coverage for some of life's worst events - cancer, accidents, critical illnesses, death and more - and for some of life's best - childbirth, retirement and more. Learn more about us!