Legal Assistant, Products and Agreements - Mountain View  

This position is based in Mountain View, CA.

The area: Legal

20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for tackling some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you tackle unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.

The role: Legal Assistant, Products and Agreements

Google's legal department is at the center of an information law revolution, and you're at its core. As a Legal Assistant, you are a driving force behind the success of your Legal team, ready to roll up your sleeves to create and improve processes, maintain records, conduct legal research and coordinate communications across the team. As you closely support your team, you may find yourself working with multiple groups within the Legal Department, internal clients across Google, and external parties. You're an independent thinker who isn't afraid to ask questions, and you're organized in a way that never overlooks the details.

Legal Assistants for Google’s Products and Agreements group will be called on to perform a wide variety of critical support and administrative tasks. This position requires self-confident, detail-oriented and patient individuals capable of processing large workloads. This position is ideal to gain experience in a legal environment prior to going to law school. You should have some knowledge about Google products and services. Required tasks include routing contracts for signature, processing non-disclosure agreements, and responding to requests for contracts. In addition, you will be asked to perform many one-off tasks including due diligence, processing other standard agreements, and integrity checking.

Responsibilities:

• Route contracts for signature. This includes tracking the contracts and following up to ensure that they come back, as well as scanning, data entry, and filing.
• Process standard non-disclosure agreements.
• Review and respond to requests for contracts. Most requests are not straightforward, so this requires thinking outside the box and diligence.
• Perform a full range of administrative tasks and correspondence.
• Facilitate communication of process and policy to internal and external customers.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree (In lieu of degree, 4 years relevant work experience)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent interpersonal skills and highly team-oriented.
• Ability to prioritize and manage numerous simultaneous projects under deadline pressure.
• Excellent analytical skills, as well as exceptional written and verbal communication skills