US Paralegal Specialist

Listing expiry: 24 October 2026

About the role

Role Overview

This role provides paralegal-level corporate and litigation support for US legal matters from the Global Business Services India Legal Center of Excellence, working under the direction of US-based attorneys. Responsibilities include legal matter administration, corporate entity and compliance support, contract execution coordination and litigation support.

Key Responsibilities

• Post documents to legal trackers and matter-management systems, open new cases and matters, and establish corresponding records.
• Support onboarding of outside counsel and vendor setup for settlement payments.
• Liaise with registered agents on entity filings and assist with know-your-customer inquiries from banks and financial institutions.
• Maintain the annual US attorney registration and licensing verification list, procure apostilles for cross-border document legalisation, and maintain legal trackers.
• Coordinate with the accounts payable team on legal billing matters and perform administrative support for the legal team.
• Prepare contract redlines and comparisons to support attorney review, route contracts for internal approvals and signatures, and coordinate execution.
• Upload documents to virtual data rooms to support due diligence and transaction processes.
• Coordinate settlement payments, monitor damages tracking spreadsheets and track monetary recoveries.
• Set up, maintain and release legal holds, update internal legal referrals, and support responses to subpoenas involving company employees where the company is not a party, under attorney direction.
• Perform assigned work independently with limited supervision, exercise judgment on coordination and administrative matters, and escalate issues requiring legal interpretation, litigation strategy or decisions on transaction terms.
• Support team-level process improvements, represent the company in routine authorised coordination with external parties, and improve existing administrative and coordination processes.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree required; a law degree is not required. A paralegal certificate or equivalent qualification is preferred.
• Approximately 3–6 years of relevant experience, including corporate and/or litigation paralegal support, ideally supporting US legal matters from an LPO, GCC/GBS or in-house legal environment.
• Familiarity with US corporate entity administration, registered agents, KYC and banking compliance, attorney licensing tracking, legal holds, subpoena responses and settlement tracking is an advantage.
• Experience with legal matter-management and tracker systems, contract redlining and comparison tools, and virtual data room platforms is preferred.
• Strong organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple concurrent administrative and coordination workstreams.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Discretion and the ability to handle confidential corporate and litigation-related information.

Additional Details

• The role supports US legal matters from the company's India Legal Center of Excellence in Bangalore.
• The role may include reviewing and guiding administrative or entry-level colleagues on routine work.
• The position has a defined attorney-authorised scope and does not independently set functional strategy or firm-wide policy.