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Since opening our first self-storage facility in 1972, Public Storage has grown to become the largest owner and operator of self-storage facilities in the world. With thousands of locations across the U.S. and Europe, and more than 170 million net rentable square feet of real estate, we're also one of the largest landlords.
We've been recognized as A Great Place to Work by the Great Place to Work Institute. And, our employees have also voted us as having Best Career Growth, ranked us in the Top 5% for Work Culture, and in the Top 10% for Diversity and Inclusion.
We're a member of the S&P 500 and FT Global 500. Our common and preferred stocks trade on the New York Stock Exchange.
We currently have an exciting opportunity for an Operations Legal Specialist to join our team based out of our corporate offices in Plano, TX.
The successful candidate will assist our Litigation Counsel and support Field Operations and Corporate groups with a variety of issues, including preparing financial reporting, preparing budgets, answering company policy questions, responding to compliance issues, and assisting with managing small claims and evictions.
The person in this position will:
Provide guidance to the field operations regarding legal compliance relating to managing delinquent accounts, property management issues, and operations policy and process issues
Receive service of process and assign cases to in-house and outside counsel
Maintain our legal database, which includes coding and describing matters, troubleshooting billing issues, and regularly updating the matters
Manage outside counsel with managing monthly accruals and tracking legal spend by matter type for reporting
Provide quarterly accruals to the accounting department
Reviewing and processing payment for monthly invoices and restitution cases including utilizing eBuilder system to ensure timely payment
Prepare for the monthly P&L, including pulling reports on spend, new cases, settlements, tracking legal trends, and reporting spend and high visibility matters
Respond to subpoenas from government and non-government entities and persons
Assist the field with handling and defending small claims cases, and assigning counsel where necessary/permitted
Manage and assign counsel to eviction cases, including sending the matter to counsel, providing periodic updates as necessary, and reviewing/approving related invoices
Assist the commercial real estate group with commercial evictions and other commercial tenant issues
Provide monthly reporting on various metrics , including spend and status of employment and other matters
May assist with collection of discovery documentation for outside counsel and/or drafting or proofing of discovery responses.
Qualifications
5+ years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Thorough working knowledge of, and advanced aptitude in using Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Microsoft Word, and corporate legal databases such as CounselLink, CSC, Westlaw, PACER, Docuware, Yardi and ability and aptitude to learn new applications and programs.
Legal experience is strongly preferred
Excellent communication skills
Must be detailed oriented and highly organized
Must be a self-starter and possess strong multi-tasking skills
Must be able to adapt and function well within a highly dynamic, busy environment
Workplace
- One of our values pillars is to work as OneTeam and we believe that there is no replacement for in-person collaboration but understand the value of some flexibility. Public Storage teammates are expected to work in the office five days each week with the option to take up to three flexible remote days per month.
- Our office is based in Plano, east of I75 near E. Park Blvd, just North of Historic Downtown Plano.
Public Storage is an equal opportunity employer and embraces diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.
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