Commercial Real Estate Paralegal

Overview

A commercial real estate law firm is seeking a part-time Paralegal to support their legal team. This is a remote, W2 contracted position with a minimum commitment of 15 hours per week and potential for increased hours. The role involves assisting with commercial real estate acquisition, development, construction, and closing matters.

Responsibilities

• Support attorneys with commercial real estate transactions including acquisition, development, construction, and closings.
• Review, organize, and track purchase agreements, amendments, due diligence materials, title commitments, surveys, plats, zoning materials, entity documents, closing checklists, and related documents.
• Assist with title and survey review by identifying key exceptions, missing items, access issues, easements, legal description issues, and other items requiring attorney review.
• Coordinate with clients, title companies, surveyors, opposing counsel, brokers, consultants, lenders, and local government contacts as needed.
• Prepare and maintain transaction checklists, timelines, due diligence trackers, and electronic matter files.
• Draft and revise routine real estate transaction documents, correspondence, deeds, closing documents, attorney/title instruction letters, entity organizational documents, and HOA-related documents under attorney supervision.
• Assist with information and document collection, signature coordination, deliverables, recording documents, and file organization.
• Manage contract deadlines, critical dates, follow-up items, and client communications.
• Provide administrative and project management support for active real estate and construction matters, ensuring files are organized and outstanding items progress.
• Maintain confidentiality, professionalism, accuracy, and attention to detail in all work.

Requirements

• 7-9+ years of legal experience preferred, with significant experience in commercial real estate transactions.
• Strong knowledge of real estate transactional documents, due diligence, title commitments, surveys, closings, entity documents, and transaction checklists.
• Experience supporting attorneys on property acquisition, development, construction, homebuilder, lender, and commercial real estate matters is strongly preferred.
• Ability to identify issues requiring attorney review without providing legal advice or exercising independent legal judgment.
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple matters, deadlines, and document-heavy projects.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for professional correspondence with clients, title companies, opposing counsel, and transaction parties.
• High attention to detail and ability to produce accurate work with limited supervision.
• Comfortable working independently in a remote environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, PDF/document management tools, and cloud-based file organization.
• Experience with Clio is a plus but not required.
• Familiarity with Georgia real estate law is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

• Hourly pay range: $75.00 - $80.00 per hour.
• Flexible, part-time contract opportunity with remote work.
• Opportunity to work on sophisticated commercial real estate, development, construction, and homebuilder matters.
• Direct collaboration with an experienced commercial real estate attorney in a growing boutique law firm.
• Project-based work with potential for ongoing assignments based on fit, availability, and firm needs.
• Flexible schedule subject to transaction deadlines and client needs.
• Professional and collaborative working environment.
• Opportunity to contribute to building efficient systems, checklists, and processes for a growing real estate-focused practice.

Location

• 100% remote

Additional Details

• Start date: As soon as possible
• End date: Ongoing
• Position type: W2 Contracted
• Minimum hours: 15 hours per week with opportunity to increase