Paralegal - Real Estate

Paralegal - Real Estate|The Wonderful Company# Paralegal - Real Estate The Wonderful Company | Los Angeles, CA | Legal | Associate | Full-time | Job e
* Email## Company Description The Wonderful Company is a company committed to offering high-quality, healthy, and iconic brands such as Wonderful Pistachios, Wonderful Halos, FIJI Water, POM Wonderful, and JUSTIN, Landmark, and Lewis Cellars wine. We foster a collaborative workforce that encourages an entrepreneurial spirit and openness to change.

We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented real estate paralegal to join our extensive in-house Legal team. This role will provide legal services for the broad real estate transactional needs of The Wonderful Company and its operating businesses, which include commercial, office, industrial, build-to-suit lease agreements, acquisitions and dispositions of commercial, agricultural, industrial and development properties, and other general real estate matters.

This position will be based at our West Los Angeles, CA office. We work a hybrid schedule with an in-office requirement Monday-Wednesday and the option to work remotely on Thursday and Friday.##

Job Description
* Analyze title documents, surveys and legal descriptions of real property
* Draft title objection letters in connection with real estate acquisitions
* Prepare, coordinate and facilitate all aspects of closings with client, title companies and lenders, managing checklists, calculating critical dates and maintaining both as the transaction progresses
* Draft ancillary transaction documents, including, but not limited to transaction resolutions, certificates and other governance documents, owners’ affidavits and indemnity agreements
* Review and prepare comments to easements, access agreements, licenses and lot line adjustments
* Prepare real estate closing documents and coordinating items for closing and post-closing requirements
* Conduct lien and litigation searches nationwide; analyze and summarize results
* Communicate regularly with attorneys and clients regarding the status of projects and deadlines and informs attorneys of any issues## Qualifications
* Demonstrated experience as a Real Estate Paralegal with expert knowledge in managing the title process, including placing title orders, reviewing title and survey, analyzing title commitments, coordinating resolution of title issues, and negotiating title coverage and endorsements
* Ability to handle all closing aspects of real estate purchase and sale transactions from start to finish, including preparing and maintaining closing checklists, as well as reviewing and drafting closing documents
* Knowledge of water rights, environmental matters, zoning issues, mineral rights, subdivision and lot line adjustments, development, entitlement and land use, easements, licenses and CC&Rs is useful
* California notary public or willingness to become a California notary public is useful
* Possess superb organizational, time management, and multitasking skills as well as excellent collaboration and communication abilities
* Proven experience in providing top-quality, proactive, accurate and effective legal support in a fast-moving environment with minimal supervision
* Associate degree in paralegal studies or similar required
* Post-Bachelor's degree paralegal certification with a real estate focus preferred

Pay Range: $65.00-$72.00/hour.  Final compensation will be dependent upon skills & experience.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, The Wonderful Company is a privately held $6 billion company dedicated to harvesting health around the world through its iconic consumer brands. The company’s 10,000 employees worldwide are committed to bringing consumers everywhere the freshest, most wholesome pistachios, citrus and pomegranates; bottling the finest water and wines; and creating colorful bouquets that are sure to touch the heart.

This commitment is reflected in the company’s market share:
Wonderful Pistachios is America’s No. 1 tree nut and America’s fastest-growing snack;
Wonderful Halos is the No. 1 mandarin orange in America; POM Wonderful is the No. 1 100% pomegranate brand in America; FIJI Water is America’s…