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Paralegal - Real Estate - Dallas

JOB TITLE:              Real Estate Paralegal                  

LOCATION:             Dallas                                                

REPORTS TO:         Managing Attorney/Office Manager                                                

SUMMARY:              Assist in many facets of Real Estate Practice Group

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

  • Drafting real estate documents, including deeds, easements, assignments, and financing statements;
  • Preparing lease abstracts;
  • Reviewing title, survey and plats and preparing title memos and objection letters;
  • Ordering, reviewing and summarizing UCC and litigation searches and zoning reports;
  • Creating and monitoring transaction timelines and checklists;
  • Preparation of closing checklists from purchase and sale agreements or loan agreements
  • Keeping multiple transactions on schedule for closing
  • Creating entities and filing entity documents
QUALIFICATIONS (Minimum knowledge, skills, and experience requirements):
  • Bachelor’s Degree and/or Paralegal Certificate
  • At least 5 years’ of real estate, real estate lending, title and survey review, contract review, and general transactional experience
  • General trial/litigation skills helpful
  • Strong technical skills: able to prepare documents in Microsoft Word/PowerPoint/Excel including editing and redlines, working with “Styles” and working knowledge of Excel
  • Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
  • Strong proofreading, grammar, organizational and time management skills
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Extremely accurate, and detail oriented
  • Works well under pressure

The above is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of this job.  It is not a contract or employment agreement and is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of all functions, responsibilities or requirements.