Real Estate Legal Assistant (Glendale)

About the Role

We are seeking a highly organized Real Estate Closing Coordinator to support a Fortune 500 clients legal department.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in real estate transactions, title, or legal support.
• Understanding of commercial real estate closing processes.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and document management systems.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Willingness to support an onsite role based in Glendale, California.
• Epiq Counsel partners with industry-leading clients in support of their sophisticated interim talent needs. Must be interested in practicing in an alternative, fixed-term legal services model.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with self-storage or commercial real estate.
• Familiarity with real estate software such as Yardi, Argus, or similar platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• CounselLink and eBuilder invoice management
• Following up with various stakeholders (law firms, developers, lawyers) regarding invoices.
• Support real estate closings (both property deals and deals with vendors (i.e., environmental consulting, title, and zoning), onboarding new vendors, and RFP processes.
• Manage intake requests in ServiceNow.
• Assist with post-closing activities, including document recording and file archiving.

Benefits

• Compensation commensurate with experience and complexity of engagement.
• 401(k) with company match
• PTO and paid federal holidays
• Optional medical coverage; HSA Account; Wellness Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefits (as applicable)

About Epiq

Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful in-house legal work and flexibility to sophisticated and credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers and legal professionals work on a wide variety of matters for Fortune 500 clients. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging work for sophisticated clients that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control.

Epiq Counsel takes the time and attention to understand each professionals practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure they are presented with compelling engagement opportunities with leading law departments across the globe.

It is Epiqs policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individuals race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiqs policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.