Paralegal

EverPass Media is redefining the role of TVs in businesses by blending exclusive top-tier sports and entertainment with unmatched marketing innovation. With a focus on premium content like NFL Sunday Ticket, smart promotions, and seamless partnerships, we offer a cloud-based platform that combines ease of use with advanced functionality and reliability. We're empowering business owners to control their content like never before, ensuring their screens are more than just TVs—they're key to engaging, entertaining, and understanding their customers to help drive business results. We are poised to leverage our strong leadership, innovative technology, and strategic partnerships to become the go-to destination for on-premise entertainment and marketing.

Position Overview: 

EverPass is seeking to add a motivated, detail-oriented Paralegal to our Legal Department. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in supporting EverPass’s legal function by serving as a trusted partner to EverPass’s Legal Counsel, helping manage priorities, execute projects efficiently, and keep legal operations running smoothly. You will collaborate cross-functionally with teams across the organization to help drive projects to completion and ensure legal processes are efficient, scalable, and well executed.

This role is ideal for someone who is intellectually curious, takes ownership of their work, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and is eager to grow as a core contributor within an in-house legal department.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Serve as a key point of contact for the Legal Department, helping triage legal requests and coordinate with internal stakeholders on behalf of the Legal Counsel
• Assist with reviewing, drafting, and managing a variety of legal documents and commercial contracts, including but not limited to, notices, legal forms, and agreements related to sales, content acquisition, marketing initiatives, vendors, and regulatory compliance
• Identify deviations from standard legal positions, assess risk, and appropriately escalate issues to Legal Counsel and relevant business stakeholders
• Provide daily administrative and operational support, including managing email correspondence, calendars, document preparation, filing, scanning, mailing, and other tasks necessary to support the legal department
• Support the execution and lifecycle management of legal agreements
• Enable efficient legal operations by ensuring organized and accessible legal records
• Maintain and improve legal department forms and templates
• Provide analytical and project support that advances corporate, regulatory, and governance objectives
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure timely submission and execution of legal documentation
• Help with implementing process improvements to increase speed, consistency, and scalability
• Exercise sound judgment and discretion in the handling of confidential and sensitive information
• Support miscellaneous projects as assigned by Legal Counsel

Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of standard contract terms, structures, and legal templates
• Strong research, writing, and analytical capabilities
• Ability to prioritize competing demands and drive tasks to completion in a fast-paced environment, while maintaining a commitment to delivering high-quality work product
• Exceptional organizational skills with attention to detail
• Professional demeanor and judgment
• Pragmatic and resourceful approach to problem-solving
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and adapting to evolving priorities
• Eager to develop in-depth knowledge of the EverPass platform and overall business
• High aptitude for learning and using technology tools efficiently

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years of professional experience, including at least 3 years of legal experience
• Based in the Chicago area
• Willingness to work in a hybrid environment with 3 days per week in the office
• Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, Adobe, and Litera (or similar tools)

Preferred Qualifications (Optional)

• Paralegal certificate or relevant legal experience
• Experience in a corporate in-house legal department and/or law firm environment
• Interest in sports media, law, and business
• Exposure to or experience with legal matters involving intellectual property, licensing and content rights, privacy, marketing, technology and SaaS agreements, consumer protection, sales, human resources, corporate transactions, or compliance
• Experience leveraging AI tools within a legal or operational role
• Experience implementing or managing contract lifecycle management tools
• Active Illinois Notary Public, or willingness to become one if requested

Expected Compensation: The anticipated base salary range for a new hire into this position is $80,000 - $110,000. In compliance with local law, the range above reflects the current hiring range for this position. EverPass takes into consideration the qualifications, skills, and experience of the candidate, expected quality and quantity of work, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees. EverPass expects to hire for this position at the mid-range salary, with the possibility of considering a higher salary only in rare cases when EverPass determines an external candidate possesses exceptional qualifications significantly exceeding the job requirements.

About Us:

EverPass Media is a comprehensive media platform dedicated to commercial businesses, that aggregates, distributes and enables streaming of live sports and entertainment content, and offers a wide array of consumer engagement and performance marketing tools for bars, restaurants, hotels and other commercial venues. Launched initially as the exclusive distributor of NFL Sunday Ticket to commercial establishments in the United States, EverPass partners with rightsholders, distribution partners and business owners to unlock greater access to premium live events and drive business growth. EverPass was founded in 2023 in partnership with RedBird Capital Partners and 32 Equity, the strategic investment arm of the National Football League. TKO Group Holdings, parent company of UFC and WWE, joined as an investor in 2024.

Benefits and Perks: 

• Competitive Compensation 
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term and short-term disability insurance
• Professional Development Programs
• Access to senior management and mentoring opportunities
• Employee Recognition Program
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid Parental Leave
• Mental Health and Recharge Days 
• 401k Match
• Pre-tax Transportation
• Employee Assistance Program
• Type of work: Hybrid
• Virtual and in-person social events (team highlights, culture spotlights, happy hours)

This is a chance for you to join a challenging and inspiring environment where you will have the possibility to make a daily impact. Every day you will work alongside helpful and down-to-earth colleagues who are dedicated and ambitious. Together we create an innovative environment that drives EverPass forward. If you are the right person for the role you will be part of a fantastic journey in a dynamic, high-growth business.

We look forward to your application.

EverPass is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative-action employer. 

We are always committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Discrimination is not welcome on the basis of any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we work.