Paralegal

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Job description

Overview:
For more than 100 years, our passionate mission of safety empowers us to protect lives.

MSA Safety is a global leader in the development of safety equipment and pioneering technology that helps protect people and facility infrastructures around the world. We are committed to providing the latest in innovative, best-in class safety solutions that feature integrated systems capability and allow our customers to return safely to their families and friends. Every day our customers place their lives in our hands. In response, we provide them with protection they can trust. It is gratifying to lead the way as a source of inspiration. Would you like to join our team of more than 5,000 employees world-wide dedicated to this purpose? We hope so.

Organized, collaborative, detail-oriented and process-driven. MSA is looking for a Paralegal to join its Law Department. While a major focus of the role is to support Intellectual Property Management, our Paralegal will have an opportunity to work with department members across a variety of functions, including exciting and developing areas like Corporate Social Responsibility and Data Privacy.

A truly collaborative department, you will find enthusiasm and support for your work from department leadership and your peers. You will also find enthusiasm and support for investing in your professional development - we look for those who love to learn.

Your growth mindset, can-do attitude, and team-orientation will help you excel. You will have endless opportunities to put your stamp on your work and improve the way we do business. From process improvement to new technology tools, MSA's Law Department embraces forward-thinking approaches, and we are looking for you to help us reach new heights!

Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:

Coordination of company's intellectual property operations and compliance

Assists with IP portfolio creation and maintenance including requests to obtain product data, inventor signatures, and other information necessary for trademark and patent applications and renewals

Ensures that matters created in IP docketing system are reflected in MSA Law Department's e-billing system for outside counsel and third-party vendors

Reviews bills from outside counsel and third-party vendors for consistency with MSA Outside Counsel Guidelines

Supports patent related inventor rewards program and remuneration

Works with IP Counsel to coordinate IP review teams and meetings

Identifies opportunities to streamline IP operations and compliance

Facilitates inventor support and responds to requests for information about patents, trademarks, copyrights and IP/technology related agreements

Administration of legal compliance technology

Provides primary support to web-based compliance training courses, reviews training provider course catalogs for available courses, edits selected courses as directed by in-house counsel, deploys and tracks the courses to completion using learning management system dashboard, and schedules live "virtual" and in-person trainings, as directed by in-house counsel

Supports the Company's third-party due diligence cloud platform, including monitoring new submissions, preparing regular reports for in-house counsel and regional business representatives, and mapping existing system data to assess potential gaps in due diligence.

Supports administration of the Company's cloud-based ethics investigations case management system, including periodic reporting and analysis of trends

Supports administration of the Company's data privacy cloud-based compliance tool

Support administration of Law Department programs on substantive legal topics, compliance and ethics, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Conducts legal research on commercial and compliance matters at the request of in-house counsel

Supports administration of the Company's global privacy program

Supports administration of the Company's CSR program

Prepares monthly CSR dashboard with input from each stakeholder

Assists in compiling answers to customer CSR questionnaires

Maintains company database housing ISS/MSCI/EcoVadis information

Assists with administration of Law Department's Diversity & Inclusion efforts

Support of litigation activities

Supports discovery, e-discovery and administration of legal holds

Creates new matters in the electronic legal billing system

Reviews and administratively processes invoices from outside counsel

Qualifications:
Special Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Exceptional organizational and document management skills
• Proven ability to maintain accurate records
• Proficiency in MS Office suite
• Demonstrated ability to solicit, compile, analyze and report on data

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree (B.A./B.S.) and/or Paralegal Certification from accredited paralegal program

• 2 years of patent or trademark experience

This position is available at three different levels based on education, experience, etc.:

• Level I-Minimum 2 years in a law firm or corporate environment
• Level II-Minimum 5 years in a law firm or corporate environment
• Level III-Minimum 8 years in a law firm or corporate environment

• Coursework in IP, patents, trademarks or engineering may be substituted for experience.

Preferred:

• Experience with reviewing invoices from outside counsel
• Familiarity with Foundations IP system, IP portfolio docketing systems and online US and foreign patent and trademark databases
• Familiarity with Serengeti Legal Tracker
• Familiarity with Legal Compliance and Privacy requirements
• Familiarity with Corporate Social Responsibility efforts