We are looking for a detail-oriented Legal Assistant/Paralegal to support a busy legal team in Bethesda, Maryland. This position focuses on corporate matters, commercial agreements, and real estate transactions, with work spanning document preparation, entity upkeep, and closing coordination. The ideal candidate brings strong organizational skills, sound judgment, and the ability to manage multiple matters accurately in a fully onsite environment.

Responsibilities:

• Support the creation and qualification of business entities by preparing formation filings, annual submissions, and related records for state and regulatory agencies.
• Draft, organize, and update governance materials such as bylaws, operating agreements, resolutions, meeting records, and other internal corporate documents.
• Maintain entity files, compliance trackers, minute books, and legal databases to help ensure records remain current and deadlines are met.
• Assist attorneys with a range of business transactions, including commercial contracts, financings, restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, leases, and property transfers.
• Prepare and revise legal documents with a high degree of accuracy, including proofreading, incorporating edits, and producing comparison drafts through Microsoft Word tools.
• Coordinate transactional support activities by managing due diligence materials, reviewing title and survey documents, tracking milestone dates, and assembling execution and closing packages.
• Handle routine legal correspondence, calendar management, matter tracking, electronic filing, and general document organization to keep assignments moving efficiently.
• Use legal technology tools, including Microsoft Copilot and CoCounsel, to improve workflow efficiency, document quality, and overall transaction support.