Legal Assistant

About the position

Buckeye is the premier infrastructure and logistics provider for the world's energy needs, both today and tomorrow. Since 1886, we have successfully navigated transitions in the way energy has been distributed to continually meet the needs of an evolving market and industry environment. Our people are a critical element to the success and longevity of our operational history and our future as we seek to thrive through the energy transition. We own and operate a diversified global network of integrated assets providing midstream logistic solutions, primarily consisting of the transportation, storage, processing, and marketing of liquid petroleum products. We are committed to safely and responsibly providing world-class service to meet the continually evolving energy needs of our customers and the communities we serve. As part of this commitment to our customers, we are continually diversifying our platform and service offerings to enable less carbon intensive energy solutions and undertaking decarbonization efforts on our operations. Buckeye Partners is currently seeking a Legal Assistant to join our team.

Responsibilities

• Handling administrative tasks as needed, including scheduling meetings, creating, compiling, and uploading files, reviewing and routing correspondence, obtaining signatures and directing finalized documents to the appropriate parties, and running reports and queries.
• Matters relating to document retention; administering all aspects of legal invoicing, including receiving invoices.
• Identifying relevant account coding and responsible attorney and forwarding for approval, uploading invoices to accounts payable system.
• Approving, maintaining legal expense spreadsheet, retaining invoices, creating new vendors.
• Corporate governance maintenance and record responsibilities, including assisting various entity secretaries, drafting minutes, resolutions, and reports.
• Obtaining signatures for documents, filing records; managing company's relationship with its corporate service vendor to ensure proper business administration and compliance of company's entities.
• Supporting litigation counsel with litigation matters, including drafting and administering legal holds, tracking and filing responses, and assisting with discovery.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and/or technical degree in a related discipline required.
• 5+ years of paralegal experience required.
• Experience in a transactional legal environment highly desired.
• Must be (or must have the ability to become) a Pennsylvania Notary Public.
• Must be proficient using Microsoft Word, SharePoint, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Workshare Compare, and Adobe Acrobat.