The Role
The Senior Paralegal/Legal Ops Manager provides legal support to the Solar Servicing team, streamlining processes and coordinating litigation case management and compliance.
Summary Generated by Built In
COMPANY DESCRIPTION: Forbright is a nationwide full-service bank and commercial lender focused on helping to build a brighter future for our clients and the communities we serve. Forbright is committed to exceptional client service by providing seamless, innovative personal banking services to depositors and creative financing solutions to visionary middle market businesses and investors in healthcare, technology, financial services, real estate, and other industries.
COMPANY CULTURE: We are a dynamic, high energy, fun, and fast-paced organization that has an exciting growth trajectory, meaningful mission, and embedded responsible practices into our daily interactions. We offer our team members a culture of collaboration, inclusion, flexibility, recognition, and giving back. We look to hire individuals that are passionate about our mission, and who are motivated, customer and results-oriented, innovative, adaptable, and thoughtful.
COMPANY MISSION: We are a mission-driven institution. We operate a sound dynamic institution that is well capitalized, liquid, profitable and uses best practices to manage risk and assure compliance with laws and regulations. We use Forbright’s capital, capabilities, innovation, and expertise to help our clients succeed and contribute broadly to building a brighter future.
JOB SUMMARY: The Senior Paralegal/Legal Ops Manager is responsible for providing legal and specialized administrative support to the Solar Servicing team and developing processes to streamline how the Legal team delivers legal services. This position assists with litigation and other regulatory and legal matters related to Solar Servicing.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Coordinate litigation case opening tasks, including around stakeholder notifications, and legal hold and insurance notifications, where appropriate
- Review relevant agreements to determine and comply with notification and defense obligations
- Coordinate litigation case management, including maintaining and updating our case management system, ensuring compliance with litigation holds, assisting with investigation and discovery-related tasks and external deadlines
- Coordinate with outside counsel on active litigation and other dispute matters
- Manage incoming service of process and legal mail, ensuring all documents are responded or routed to appropriate person
- Create, maintain, and update regulatory complaint, attorney demand, and litigation information on internal databases
- Prepare various legal correspondence to externals parties, including regulators
- Coordinate cross-functionally to respond to requests for information and documents from auditors, regulators, business partners, and other partners
- Lead and work collaboratively with Legal team members develop, effectuate, and maintain policies, processes and initiatives that focus to improve operational efficiency in support of legal and compliance functions
- Own other special projects/processes to support the legal team
- Exercise judgment within defined procedures to determine appropriate action, including but not limited to, identifying issues that require the input of other Legal Team members and taking steps to escalate these matters appropriately
- Perform other duties as assigned
QUALIFICATIONS:
- High School Diploma required; Associate’s Degreepreferred
- Minimum of 4years oflitigationparalegalexperience required
- Paralegal certification is a plus
- Significant experience with litigation and commercial contract review
- Ability to apply proper policies, procedures and guidelines
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive matters
- Strong attention to detail and high concern for data accuracy
- Strong legal research skills and experience using legal research tools
- Proficiency and high aptitude with computer skills, such as MS Office, Adobe Acrobat, Zoho, and DocuSign
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Outstanding research, problem-solving and time management skills
- Self-motivated, self-directed, and results-oriented
- Adaptable and able to multitask in a fast-paced environment
- Can work independently and within a team; solution-oriented with a collaborative approach
The pay range for this position is below. The specific rate will depend on the successful candidate’s qualifications and prior experience. $93,000 (entry level qualifications) to $118,000 (highly experienced).
POSITION REQUIREMENTS: We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all employees are capable of performing their job position. Work is primarily conducted in an office setting while certain positions may allow for remote work through the use of technology at management discretion. The functions described below are representative of those to successfully perform duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable employees to perform the essential functions. While performing duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required for extended periods of time to:
• Remain in a stationary position
• Use hands and fingers
• Utilize a computer monitor with visual acuity
• Operate technology or other office machinery such as printers, scanners, etc.
• Communicate clearly verbally and/or in writing with others
ADDITIONAL DUTIES: For Forbright Bank to remain efficient and nimble as a growing organization, team members are expected to exhibit a high level of flexibility regarding any duties that may be situationally assigned outside of this job description.
PERKS/BENEFITS:
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
• 4 weeks PTO
• 401k + company match
• Metro SmartTrip benefits ($50/mo)
• Remote or hybrid work schedules for most positions
• Incentives for purchasing solar panels, electric vehicles, biking to work, etc.
• Paid subscriptions to Veterans Compost, Capital Bikeshare, Imperfect Foods reimbursement, and more!
• Best Workplaces for Commuters 2023 & 2024 winner
• The Washington Post Top Workplaces 2023, 2024, and 2025 winner
• American Banker Best Banks to Work For 2023 winner
It is the policy of Forbright Bank to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals and to administer all aspects and conditions of pre-employment and employment without regard to protected characteristics.
Employment with Forbright Bank is at-will, which means that either you or the Company may terminate the relationship at any time.
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The Company
What We Do
Forbright Bank (www.forbrightbank.com) is a full-service bank, commercial lender, and asset manager committed to accelerating the transition to a sustainable, clean energy economy. As the need to build a more sustainable, low-carbon economic system grows increasingly urgent, we are dedicating half of our assets to financing the companies, investors, and innovators driving that change. We also will empower our depositors to directly fund clean energy and sustainability-oriented loans through a variety of decarbonization linked deposit products, allowing them to play a critical role in furthering the energy transition.
Member FDIC | Equal Housing Lender | NMLS #652644
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