Advanced Senior Paralegal

Unum Group • Chattanooga, TN • 11h ago

Job Posting End Date: September 17

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.

Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life's moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide:

Award-winning culture

Inclusion and diversity as a priority

Performance Based Incentive Plans

Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability

Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)

Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution

Mental health support

Career advancement opportunities

Student loan repayment options

Tuition reimbursement

Flexible work environments

All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans .*

And that's just the beginning...

With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you're directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today!

General Summary:

Provides complex paralegal assistance to attorneys. May serve in a lead role providing direction and/or mentoring to Paralegals and Senior Paralegals as needed.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Conducts legal research and complex analysis as assigned.

Locates information for attorneys and other internal and external authorities.

May interview all levels of company employees to develop detailed information on all phases of Unum operations.

Reviews, analyzes, summarizes and organizes documents as needed.

Prepares draft responses of legal documents.

Ensures that legal documentation is processed in compliance with legal requirements.

Assists with or takes a lead role in large projects and assists other paralegals with their workload as necessary.

May perform other duties as assigned.

Litigation/Dedicated Legal Resource

May assist with witness preparation for deposition and trial.

Interact with all levels of company employees and exercise the judgment to coordinate appropriately with in house and outside counsel as needed.

Advanced knowledge of company's products and procedures.

Advanced knowledge of legal issues involving group and/or individual policies and claims.

Insurance Operations

May renew, research and process garnishments, state/federal levies, bankruptcies, child support orders and other legal withholding orders.

May renew, research, process, and respond to subpoenas, authorization agreed orders and other legal process.

May prepare and file answers with courts and administrative tribunals.

May maintain, develop and update standard and non-standard RFP responses, based on business objectives and sales and risk strategies; maintain RFP tracking system.

May work with internal/external counsel on complex bankruptcy issues, including preference actions, while generating, organizing and maintaining relevant legal documentation, case status updates and state law preference updates.

May support legal education training initiatives of the department by researching and creating training tools, including presentations, hand-outs, and articles.

Corporate Law

One or more of the following duties:

Interface with transfer agent

Manage due diligence requests from acquirers, government agencies and others

Complete and file required forms with SEC, NYSE and others

Manage information concerning officers and directors

Provide backup to attorneys for certain tasks

Complex Litigation

May review draft broad discovery responses for accuracy and consistency.

May maintain and update case tracking system, broad discovery database and document library.

Works with in-house and outside counsel on discovery strategy and responses and accompanying discovery based pleadings, as well as performing in depth review of documents.

Assists with witness preparation for deposition and trial.

Job Specifications

High school diploma.

A minimum of a paralegal certificate and 3 years of paralegal experience or seven (7) years of paralegal experience.

Excellent oral and written communications skills.

Excellent interpersonal relation skills.

Excellent word processing, math and research skills.

Demonstrated independent critical thinking and judgment.

Demonstrated ability to train/mentor Paralegals and Senior Paralegals.

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Unum and Colonial Life are part of Unum Group, a Fortune 500 company and leading provider of employee benefits to companies worldwide. Headquartered in Chattanooga, TN, with international offices in Ireland, Poland and the UK, Unum also has significant operations in Portland, ME, and Baton Rouge, LA - plus over 35 US field offices. Colonial Life is headquartered in Columbia, SC, with over 40 field offices nationwide.

Unum is an equal opportunity employer, considering all qualified applicants and employees for hiring, placement, and advancement, without regard to a person's race, color, religion, national origin, age, genetic information, military status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or protected veteran status.

The base salary range for applicants for this position is listed below. Unless actual salary is indicated above in the job description, actual pay will be based on skill, geographical location and experience.

$53,300.00-$100,700.00

Additionally, Unum offers a portfolio of benefits and rewards that are competitive and comprehensive including healthcare benefits (health, vision, dental), insurance benefits (short & long-term disability), performance-based incentive plans, paid time off, and a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not. All benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of individual Plans.

Company:

Unum

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