Legal Assistant

# Legal Assistant (316)90800 BN COLLEGE HOME OFFICE - Florham Park, NJ 07932## Overview Salary Range $30.00 - $35.00 Hourly Position Type Full Time Category Legal  Admin## Description
** Education - It's in Our DNA
** At Barnes & Noble Education (“BNED”) and across our family of brands, we are dedicated to making tomorrow a better, more inclusive, and smarter world by servicing all who work in education. As a leading solutions provider for the education industry, we are committed to driving affordability, accessibility, and achievement at hundreds of academic institutions nationwide by ensuring millions of students are equipped for success in the classroom and beyond.

Together, our teams work to elevate lives through education.
The
** Legal Assistant
** provides administrative, operational, and developing substantive support to the Legal Department. This role coordinates recurring legal processes, maintains department records and tracking systems, supports attorneys with contracts, claims, privacy, compliance, and corporate governance matters, and serves as a key point of coordination for internal and external legal requests. The position offers the opportunity to expand into more substantive legal responsibilities over time, including legal research, contract administration, privacy, intellectual property, corporate governance, and legal technology, with appropriate training and attorney guidance.

** How You'll Make an Impact
*** Coordinate day-to-day Legal Department administration, including legal invoice intake and coding, calendars and deadlines, department files and trackers, notarization, and organization of legal records and materials.
* Monitor designated Legal and privacy mailboxes, including general privacy and COPPA inquiries; manage initial intake, route requests to the appropriate attorney or business partner, track follow-up, and maintain organized records of requests and responses.
* Coordinate routine legal intake and response processes involving service of process, BBB complaints, subpoenas, garnishments, litigation holds, and threatened claims. Gather relevant information, maintain matter files and trackers, monitor deadlines, and escalate substantive issues to counsel as appropriate.
* Support recurring compliance and public records activities, including government contracting requirements, FOIA and other public records requests, related-party and insider information requests, and other Legal Department compliance matters.
* Assist with the preparation and administration of NDAs and other routine legal documents using approved templates. Support document formatting, contract intake, preparation of initial drafts from approved forms, signature coordination, electronic signatures, follow-up on outstanding documents, and maintenance of final executed agreements.
* Coordinate recurring Legal Department and cross-functional activities, including subsidiary quarterly meetings, preparation and organization of meeting materials, tracking of follow-up items, and maintenance of corporate governance documents, Company policies, legal forms, and templates.
* Conduct defined legal and factual research and assist with information gathering, document review, FOIA research, and redaction projects under attorney direction.
* As knowledge and experience develop, support additional Legal Department initiatives, including privacy compliance, trademark and copyright maintenance, contract review projects, and development of legal templates, forms, and workflows.
* Leverage approved AI and other technology tools to enhance document preparation, research support, contract and workflow administration, and process efficiency, while exercising appropriate judgment and adhering to Company policies and…