Senior Paralegal (Huntington Beach)
- Full-time
Senior Contracts Paralegal
Location: Huntington Beach, CA
Schedule: Hybrid, 3 days onsite
Salary: $90,000 to $115,000 annually, depending on experience
Employment Type: Full-time, exempt
Parking: Provided
LHH is seeking a Senior Contracts Paralegal for a confidential in-house opportunity with a growing organization in Huntington Beach. This position will support contract management, legal operations, corporate governance, and litigation-related matters.
The ideal candidate is an independent, proactive professional who can assess outstanding work, establish priorities, improve processes, and move legal matters through completion with limited supervision.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and manage business contracts using approved templates.
- Support contract lifecycle management implementation, including contract inventory, migration, and organization.
- Track contract approvals, obligations, renewals, deadlines, and open action items.
- Help develop contract templates, playbooks, workflows, and tracking processes.
- Support litigation, arbitration, employment, and other legal matters.
- Triage subpoenas and coordinate document collection for discovery.
- Assist with corporate governance documents, entity records, and Secretary of State filings.
- Conduct legal research and support regulatory, compliance, audit, investigation, and privacy matters.
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders and outside counsel.
- Identify process gaps and help build scalable legal department procedures.
- Manage multiple priorities while protecting sensitive and confidential information.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Paralegal certificate required.
- Senior-level paralegal experience with a strong contracts focus.
- Contract drafting and lifecycle-management experience.
- Experience managing legal matters, deadlines, and competing priorities independently.
- Familiarity with litigation workflows and discovery-document collection.
- Strong drafting, organizational, project-management, and communication skills.
- Sound judgment and ability to work with limited supervision.
Preferred Experience
- In-house legal department experience.
- Healthcare or regulated-industry experience.
- CLM implementation or contract-migration experience.
- Corporate governance and entity-filing experience.
- Experience with Ironclad, Jira, Monday.com, or comparable platforms.
Benefits
Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; life and disability insurance; employee assistance program; 401(k) with employer match; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; and FSA or HSA options.
Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply for confidential consideration.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
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The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:
• The California Fair Chance Act
• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pay Details: $90,000.00 to $115,000.00 per year
Search managed by: Tatiana Montealegre
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Military connected talent encouraged to apply
To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please navigate to https://www.lhh.com/us/en/candidate-privacy
The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:
- The California Fair Chance Act
- Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
- Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
- San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Massachusetts Candidates Only: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.