Job Description

Job Posting: Commercial Real Estate Paralegal

Location: Onsite in Houston, TX

Employment Type: Full-Time

Are you an experienced and detail-oriented professional with a passion for supporting complex commercial real estate transactions? Our firm is seeking a Commercial Real Estate Paralegal with a proven track record in acquisitions, dispositions, financing, leasing, and development. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment, possess strong organizational skills, and have an advanced understanding of commercial real estate law.

Key Responsibilities:

• Transaction Support: Assist attorneys with drafting, reviewing, and revising purchase agreements, lease agreements, loan documents, and other transactional documentation.
• Due Diligence: Conduct and organize title and survey reviews, environmental reports, zoning analyses, and other due diligence tasks to ensure compliance with requirements.
• Closing Coordination: Prepare closing checklists, manage timelines, and facilitate communications between clients, attorneys, and third parties to ensure seamless closings.
• Entity Management: Support the formation and maintenance of corporate entities and prepare organizational documents such as resolutions and operating agreements for real estate deals.
• Title and Survey Review: Summarize title commitments, endorsements, and surveys; draft title objection letters and resolve title issues.
• Document Preparation: Draft legal descriptions, amendments, closing statements, escrow instructions, and other documentation critical to real estate transactions.
• Administrative Support: Maintain and organize physical and electronic files while ensuring policy compliance and supporting administrative functions as required.

Preferred Experience:

• Expertise in drafting and negotiating lease agreements, including big-box retail and anchor tenant contracts.
• Familiarity with estoppels, SNDA agreements, lien waivers, and similar lease-related documents.
• Exposure to construction and design agreements, AIA forms, notices, certificates, and other construction-related documentation.
• Proficiency in reviewing due diligence materials like title searches, ALTA surveys, zoning reports, and shopping center master covenants.

Responsibilities Include:

• Drafting and finalizing legal documents utilizing templates.
• Collaborating with attorneys and business partners on matter intake and management.
• Gathering and maintaining documentation, conducting basic legal research, and processing invoicing in alignment with departmental guidelines.
• Supporting training material development and meeting planning as required.

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