Paralegal Specialist - Financial Services

Job Conditions

If you’re passionate about being part of a diverse organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to deliver innovative business solutions, then Nationwide’s Legal team could be the place for you! Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care. This position can be a hybrid or remote position depending on location.

Would you thrive in an environment where you can deliver top‑quality legal services to support the goals and objectives of a Fortune 100 insurance and financial services company? If you possess the communication skills, analytical ability, and paralegal expertise needed to provide outstanding service, advice and counsel, we want to hear from you!

• Conduct legal research and regulatory analysis to support the development, maintenance, and evolution of ILI’s product offerings.
• Support product development initiatives, including the review and enhancement of new and existing product structures.
• Manage Arc Pro content, including drafting, updating, and maintaining disclosure materials for both registered and unregistered offerings.
• Coordinate cross‑functionally with stakeholders across ILI, ILI Legal, and enterprise partners to finalize transactional documentation for private placement transactions.
• Maintain and harmonize disclosure materials related to ILI’s private placement investment strategies, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and alignment across documents.
• Oversee third‑party industry litigation tracking and manage the ILI litigation dashboard to keep the business informed of relevant legal developments that may impact risk assessment or strategy.
• Provides support to attorneys in the form of legal research, drafting communications and preparing legal documents with minimal direction.
• Conducts sophisticated and detailed legal research and compiles data from sources such as online references, digests and practice manuals. Prepares summaries and recommends resolutions to legal questions, and prepares correspondence to internal and external contacts.
• Drafts contracts, patent applications, resolutions and other legal documents. Drafts detailed deposition outlines/questions, motions, pleadings, subpoenas, orders and briefs, and works with attorneys on unusual or complex matters.
• Conducts and supervises broad‑level assignments, evaluates matters that may have a significant impact, and may assist attorneys in executing legal matters.
• For litigation specialty areas, leads the analysis and evaluation of records and data for discovery, drafting recommendations and correspondence to clients, claims attorneys and customers with regard to discovery and legal matters.
• May develop and maintain information databases, build new processes for data maintenance, storage and retrieval.
• May conduct and evaluate open and closed paralegal file audits, advising attorneys and management of audit results and recommending improvements.
• Demonstrates expertise in paralegal concepts and procedures, maintains proficiency in both business and legal professional competencies.
• Assists in developing and implementing policies, procedures and precedents for the paralegal area.
• Coordinates workflow and mentors and trains less experienced paralegals.
• Responds to requests for production of documents, responses to interrogatories and/or regulatory requests and inquiries, and coordinates pre‑trial proceedings and discovery, depending on area of specialty.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reports to Counsel/Paralegal Supervisor. May have the opportunity to lead a team of up to three associates.

• Education:
  
  Undergraduate or post‑graduate studies in business administration, insurance or other related area preferred.
• License/Certification/Designation:
  Certification in paralegal studies preferred.
• Experience:
  
  Typically, eight or more years of experience as a paralegal with demonstrated good performance.

Advanced knowledge of paralegal concepts,…