Legal Assistant
- Aqueduct (Ozone Park), New York
- Legal
- Regular Full Time
Title: Legal Assistant
Employee Status: Regular Full Time
Work From Home Option: Hybrid - 2 Days/Week (40% Remote)
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Job Overview:
The New York Racing Association, Inc. (“NYRA”) seeks an intellectually curious, detail-oriented Legal Assistant to assist with various functions within its busy Legal Department. The successful candidate will work with multiple lawyers managing litigation and/or contract negotiation calendars. They will draft contracts, applications, and correspondence and ensure documentation complies with NYRA policies and procedures. With a positive customer service-focused attitude, the successful candidate will manage both up and across the organization, advising their supervisor, business leads, and other stakeholders of competing priorities, procedural missteps, and ideal solutions. The successful candidate will word process oral, written, specific, and/or conceptual comments to edit documents. Work with various software programs to enter data and process department requests. Implement an intuitive document filing and saving system.
Essential Functions:
Assists multiple attorneys in general practice including contracts, regulatory compliance, purchasing and procurement, litigation and labor and employment matters.
Undertakes legal (i.e., WestLaw) and basic research (i.e., Google or similar), in a variety of areas, as requested by attorneys. Provides administrative and organizational support to the legal department by performing routine office tasks such as photocopying, scanning, filing, etc.
Supports the Legal Department and other parties to support and facilitate business transactions, such as licensing agreements, arbitrations, liability management, simulcasting, sponsorship and other subjects while minimizing business risk, which involves:
- Coordinating with multiple departments across the organization to draft correspondence and applications
- Word processing edits to documents from both specific and conceptual comments
- Drafting/issuing notices regarding terminations and option extensions
- Participating on calls and negotiations by taking notes and providing feedback to assist attorneys with contract drafting, calendar management and follow up
- Maintaining document files
- Tracking legal documents from assignment to completion and appropriately expediting completion
- Handling sensitive and confidential material
- Managing relationships with vendors, business partners, and regulators at the direction of lawyers
- Maintaining communication on the performance of the contract with all stakeholders in accordance with organizational protocols and standards
- Maintaining and summarizing contract information for use by attorneys and business leads in the performance of the contract
- Maintaining a schedule of contract expirations and advising lawyers appropriately
Qualifications:
- Education (minimum): Bachelor’s degree. Legal experience and/or paralegal certificate a plus.
- Experience: 3 years of relevant experience
- Other Requirements: Excellent working knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite of products, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Strong research skills. High level of intellectual curiosity – must enjoy “figuring it out.” Creative, results-oriented thinker. Emotionally intelligent. Extremely professional demeanor and work ethic.
- Additional Knowledge Required: Ability to prioritize and multi-task. Superior organizational skills. Experience with Contracts, Intellectual Property, Corporate Law and/or Labor Law a plus. Horse racing operations a plus. Spanish or additional language skills a plus
Summary of Physical Requirements and Work Environment:
The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Pay Range / Salary: $32.00 - $32.00 ph based on a 35 hour work-week/ $58,250 - $61,880 per annum
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Value Each Other: You are united with your teammates in delivering the best experience to all of NYRA’s employees, vendors, guests and horsemen.
Achieve Excellence: You possess a lively and keen interest in what you do; and display excitement and eagerness in doing your job well. You are passionate about NYRA and your role here; and seek additional responsibilities and opportunities that support organizational goals and stretch personal capabilities.
Self-management: You prioritize plans and schedules effectively; and allocate resources to meet objectives by specified target dates. You value time and work effectively and efficiently; and are able to balance changing priorities. You display role-model behavior at all times, keeping in mind that what say and do reflects on our team and on NYRA.
Effective Communications: You get to the point quickly and succinctly and make complicated concepts clear to others. You are an exceptional listener, even in stressful situations, and display an acute sense of the right thing to say in various scenarios.
About Us:
With a lineage of nearly 150 years, The New York Racing Association (NYRA) serves as the cornerstone of New York State's thoroughbred industry at three major tracks (Aqueduct Racetrack, Belmont Park, and Saratoga Race Course). The industry contributes more than $3 billion annually to its urban, suburban, and rural economy. NYRA also offers a variety of exciting career opportunities – on and off the track. From Finance to Facilities, Turf to Technology, in all departments we are stewards of our sport. Join our talented team of professionals.
NYRA is committed to equal employment opportunity and to compliance with federal, state, and local anti - discrimination laws. NYRA values diversity and complies with New York State and New York City law, which prohibits discrimination and harassment against any employee, applicant for employment, or intern based on race, age, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, gender identity / expression and transgender status), national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including predisposing genetic characteristics), age (18-years-of-age & up), veteran status, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, familial status, caregiver status, partnership status, unemployment status, certain arrest or conviction records and domestic or sexual violence victim status. NYRA does not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on an employee’s membership in one or more of these protected categories, an employee’s known relationship or association with a member of one or more of these protected categories, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) holds the exclusive franchise to conduct thoroughbred racing at Aqueduct Racetrack, Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course. NYRA tracks are the cornerstone of New York State’s horse racing industry, which is responsible for 19,000 jobs and more than $3 billion in annual economic impact.
