Paralegal Specialist - Financial Services

If you're passionate about being part of a diverse organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to deliver innovative business solutions with excellence, then Nationwide's Legal team could be the place for you! At Nationwide, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

As part of one of Nationwide Financial’s most dynamic and sophisticated business segments, this role supports the legal team that advises the Institutional Life Insurance (“ILI”) business, a market leader in both the Corporate Owned Life Insurance (COLI) and Bank Owned Life Insurance (BOLI) space.

Experience with Donnelley Financial Solutions’ suite of disclosure‑management products, particularly Arc Pro, will be viewed as a meaningful differentiator.### ###

Key Responsibilities
* Conduct legal research and regulatory analysis to support the development, maintenance, and evolution of ILI’s product offerings.
* Support product development initiatives, including the review and enhancement of new and existing product structures.
* Manage Arc Pro content, including drafting, updating, and maintaining disclosure materials for both registered and unregistered offerings.
* Coordinate cross functionally with stakeholders across ILI, ILI Legal, and enterprise partners to finalize transactional documentation for private placement transactions.
* Maintain and harmonize disclosure materials related to ILI’s private placement investment strategies, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and alignment across documents.
* Oversee third party industry litigation tracking and manage the ILI litigation dashboard to keep the business informed of relevant legal developments that may impact risk assessment or strategy.

This position can be a hybrid or remote position depending on location.#LI-CP1
** Job Description Summary
** As a Paralegal Specialist, you'll provide the highest level of legal assistance, project management and general support to the legal staff in the development, research, management and resolution of legal issues. We'll count on you to draft complex legal documents, agreements and pleadings related to a wide variety of matters, including litigation, for certain legal practice areas. You may have opportunities to work independently on some matters, with latitude for making decisions and taking action.
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* Key Responsibilities:

*** Provides support to attorneys in the form of legal research, drafting communications and preparing legal documents with minimal direction.
* Conducts sophisticated and detailed legal research and compiles data from such references as online sources, digests and practice manuals, among others. Researches and provides analysis of statutes, regulations and court decisions. Prepares summaries and recommends resolutions to legal questions. Prepares correspondence to internal and external contacts.
* Drafts contracts, patent applications, resolutions and other legal documents. Drafts detailed deposition outlines/questions, motions, pleadings, subpoenas, orders and briefs. Works with attorney on unusual or complex matters.
* Conducts and supervises broad-level assignments. Evaluates matters which may have a significant impact. May assist the attorney in executing legal matters.
* For litigation specialty areas, leads the analysis and evaluation of records and data for discovery. Drafts recommendations and correspondence to clients, claims attorneys, and customers with regard to discovery and legal matters.
* May develop and maintains information databases. Builds new processes for data maintenance, storage and retrieval.
* May conduct and evaluate open and closed paralegal file audits, advising attorneys and management of the audit results and recommending improvements.
* Demonstrates expertise in paralegal concepts and procedures. Maintains proficiency in both business and legal professional competencies.
* Assists in developing and implementing policies, procedures and precedents for the paralegal area.
* Coordinates workflow…