The Paralegal will be part of the AbbVie Operations, Purchasing, and Corporate Affairs Legal team and the AI Legal Team. The Paralegal will be responsible for maintaining templates, negotiating contracts, and advising AbbVie businesses regarding legal and policy obligations in consult with department attorneys.
Responsibilities
- Drafts, reviews, negotiates, and manages a variety of transactional agreements, including master services agreements for all types of services, professional services and consulting agreements, statements of work, non-disclosure agreements, business technology agreements, and amendments, with supervision of an attorney.
- Assists attorneys with the creation of contract templates.
- Independently identifies problems, performs analysis, proposes solutions, and provides guidance directly to business clients.
- Assists attorneys in managing and resolving complex legal issues on projects or negotiations involving multiple disciplines within legal department and/or multiple functional areas or divisions within AbbVie.
- Possesses sound knowledge of clients’ business and knowledge of the broader business impact, including ability to prioritize multiple projects.
- Represents Legal Function internally to clients, across all levels of management.
- Represents AbbVie externally to customers, suppliers, competitors, and opposing counsel, and resolves legal issues using negotiation skills and legal experience.
- Keeps abreast of changes in laws that affect client areas.
- Advises legal department managers of critical project developments in a timely manner.
- Executes core job responsibilities in a timely manner.