Paralegal

Market America, a product brokerage and Internet marketing company that specializes in One-to-One Marketing, is seeking an experienced Paralegal for our Legal Department team.

About Us:

Market America is a dynamic and fast-growing company specializing in e-commerce and digital marketing. We pride ourselves on innovation, customer satisfaction, and a commitment to excellence.

Position Summary

The Paralegal will support the department in day-to-day legal, administrative tasks including researching, gathering, organizing, and preparing various documents and legal files. This role will regularly meet with in-house attorneys and other legal professionals while serving as a central point of contact for relevant customers’ (i.e., human resources, finance, quality control, etc.) concerns and support.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assists with the review and drafting of all contracts including, but not limited to, vendor, SaaS and service provider contracts.
• Prepares non-disclosure agreements and generates standard contracts.
• Creates and maintains contract status reports and updates department on timely basis.
• Maintains complete and accurate records of all contracts
• Recommends ideas and solutions to effectively streamline internal contract operations.
• Ensures compliance with Records Retention Policy and purges old files to maintain updated filing systems.
• Manage litigation and dispute resolution support, including document production, discovery, and communication with outside counsel.
• Track domestic and international legal claims, subpoenas, and pre-litigation matters.
• Coordinate responses to regulatory or governmental inquiries
• Prepares corporate resolutions, annual meeting minutes, maintains corporate book filings, and maintains up-to-date corporate structure diagram.
• Files annual reports for corporate entities.
• Maintains insurance policies in all markets, including policy renewals, claims management, and coordination with international brokers and carriers.
• Maintain certificates of insurance and verify appropriate coverage across business operations worldwide.
• Prepares draft rules for contest and sweepstakes
• Maintains up-to-date spreadsheet of frequent disclaimers and warnings.
• Assist with management of global IP portfolio, including trademark, copyright, and patent filings, renewals, and enforcement.
• Requires a high degree of organization, structure, initiative, accuracy, judgement and diplomacy.
• Interface well with all levels of management , particularly with senior executives, and act as a liaison between Legal Services and internal and external executives on various projects and tasks.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, legal or equivalent disciplines
• Three (3) to five (5) years of experience in paralegal role, ideally within an in-house legal department supporting an international company
• Demonstrated experience in time management including related tools and technologies
• Must have the ability to organize and coordinate multiple projects at once.

Market America offers competitive salary and generous benefits, including health, dental, vision, life, short and long-term disability insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan with company match, and an on-site health clinic.

Qualified candidates should apply online. This position will based onsite at our Greensboro NC offices. Sorry, we are NOT able to sponsor for this position.

Market America is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Market America | SHOP.COM is changing the way people shop and changing the economic paradigm so anyone can become financially independent by creating their own economy and converting their spending into earning with the Shopping Annuity®.

ABOUT MARKET AMERICA, INC. & SHOP.COM

Market America Worldwide | SHOP.COM is a global e-commerce and digital marketing company that specializes in one-to-one marketing and is the creator of the Shopping Annuity . Its mission is to provide a robust business system for entrepreneurs, while providing consumers a better way to shop. Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, and with eight sites around the globe, including the U.S., Market America Worldwide was founded in 1992 by Founder, Chairman & CEO JR Ridinger. Through the company's primary, award-winning shopping website, SHOP.COM, consumers have access to millions of products, including Market America Worldwide exclusive brands and thousands of top retail brands. Further, SHOP.COM ranks 19th in Newsweek magazine's 2021 Best Online Shops, No. 52 in Digital Commerce 360's (formerly Internet Retailer) 2021 Top 1,000 Online Marketplaces, No. 79 in Digital Commerce 360's 2021 Top 1,000 Online Retailers and No. 11 in the 2021 Digital Commerce 360 Primary Merchandise Category Top 500. The company is also a two-time winner of the Better Business Bureau's Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics and was ranked No. 15 in The Business North Carolina Top 125 Private Companies for 2021. By combining Market America Worldwide's entrepreneurial business model with SHOP.COM's powerful comparative shopping engine, Cashback program, Hot Deals, ShopBuddy®, Express Pay checkout, social shopping integration and countless other features, the company has become the ultimate online shopping destination.

For more information about Market America Worldwide: MarketAmerica.com

For more information on SHOP.COM, please visit: SHOP.COM