Paralegal - Clearwater, FL

This employee is responsible for performing a variety of support duties for in-house attorneys, including legal matters and contract review management, IP portfolio management, researching law, investigating facts, preparing/gathering documents/files, and other duties as assigned.

• Researches and analyzes law sources such as statutes, recorded judicial decisions, legal articles, and legal codes
• Reviews and supports attorneys in managing litigation and corporate documents such as briefs, pleadings, appeals, contracts, articles of incorporation, corporate documents, interrogatories and responses to
• performs initial form review and manages review process for agreements with partnerships, payers, vendors, and other third parties review, approval, and use by counsel and general counsel
• Assists attorneys in managing and processing contracts, including initial drafting, reviewing and negotiating of contracts, maintaining contract repositories, and ensuring contracts adhere to Lincare's standards
• Drafts termination and default letters
• Investigates facts and law of cases to assist with reviewing causes of action and to preparation of cases accordingly
• Gathers documents, files, and other information needed for active litigation cases
• Assist reviewing attorney by producing accurate, timely initial redlines and clerical edits on corporate contracts to support the attorney
• Manage administrative tasks related to IP portfolio maintence
• Manages intellectual property files in coordination with IP counsel
• Performs other clerical duties such as scheduling appointments, providing information to callers, composing/typing routine correspondence, and reading/routing incoming legal requests
• Prepares legal documents and maintains files