Senior Legal Assistant

# Senior Legal Assistant

## About the Role

TerraPower is seeking an experienced, organized, and highly professional **Senior Legal Assistant** to provide high-quality support to the General Counsel and other legal professionals on a fast-paced legal team. This role is ideal for someone who is detail-oriented, proactive, discreet, and comfortable supporting a wide range of legal, administrative, scheduling, communication, and project-related responsibilities.

The Senior Legal Assistant will help ensure the legal department operates efficiently by managing calendars, scheduling meetings, preparing and editing communications, coordinating logistics, maintaining legal documents, and supporting legal project work. This may include assisting with agreement edits, document organization, legal research, meeting preparation, and follow-up on key action items.

The ideal candidate is dependable, polished, and able to manage confidential information with sound judgment. This person should be comfortable working with senior leaders, attorneys, internal stakeholders, external counsel, vendors, and business partners while maintaining accuracy, professionalism, and responsiveness.

## Key Responsibilities

* Provide administrative and legal support to the General Counsel and other members of the legal team.
* Manage complex calendars, schedule meetings, coordinate appointments, and resolve scheduling conflicts.
* Organize internal and external meetings, including preparing agendas, coordinating logistics, arranging conference rooms or virtual meeting links, and tracking follow-up items.
* Draft, edit, proofread, and format professional communications, correspondence, presentations, reports, and legal department materials.
* Support legal project work, including editing agreements, preparing document drafts, organizing legal files, and tracking matter-related deadlines.
* Assist with basic legal research, document review, and information gathering under the direction of attorneys or legal professionals.
* Coordinate with internal teams, external counsel, vendors, business partners, and other stakeholders on legal department matters.
* Maintain organized legal files, records, agreements, templates, correspondence, and project materials.
* Track deadlines, action items, approvals, document routing, signature requests, and matter updates.
* Help prepare materials for meetings, board-related activities, executive discussions, contract reviews, and legal department initiatives.
* Support contract administration activities, including formatting, redlining support, version control, routing, and document management.
* Handle confidential, privileged, and sensitive information with discretion and professionalism.
* Assist with expense reports, travel coordination, invoice processing, vendor communications, and other department operations as needed.
* Support legal team processes, including intake tracking, matter management, document workflows, reporting, and continuous improvement efforts.
* Help ensure legal department work is completed accurately, efficiently, and in alignment with company policies and professional standards.
* Maintain strong communication with attorneys and stakeholders to help projects move forward and deadlines stay on track.

## Required Qualifications

* Experience as a legal assistant, executive assistant, administrative assistant, paralegal assistant, or similar support role.
* Experience supporting attorneys, legal departments, executives, or senior business leaders.
* Strong calendar management, scheduling, coordination, and organizational skills.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Strong proofreading, editing, formatting, and document preparation abilities.
* Ability to manage confidential and sensitive information with discretion.
* Strong attention to detail and ability to produce accurate, polished work.
* Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and requests in a fast-paced environment.
* Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.
* Comfortable working with electronic documents, redlines, PDFs, shared drives, and document management systems.
* Professional judgment, reliability, and ability to work independently while supporting a collaborative legal team.
* Ability to communicate effectively with internal stakeholders, external counsel, vendors, and senior leadership.

## Preferred Qualifications

* Experience working in an in-house legal department, law firm, corporate legal team, government contractor, energy company, technology company, or regulated industry.
* Familiarity with legal documents, contracts, agreements, amendments, NDAs, legal correspondence, and matter files.
* Experience with contract management systems, e-signature platforms, legal matter management tools, or document management platforms.
* Experience assisting with legal research, agreement editing, document comparison, or contract review support.
* Familiarity with legal terminology and common legal department processes.
* Experience supporting a General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer, or senior legal executive.
* Paralegal certificate, legal studies coursework, associate’s degree, bachelor’s degree, or equivalent professional experience.
* Experience coordinating board materials, executive meetings, compliance documentation, or legal operations activities.

## Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a highly organized legal support professional who can bring structure, responsiveness, and attention to detail to a busy legal team. This person is comfortable managing competing requests, protecting confidential information, and supporting senior legal professionals with professionalism and sound judgment.

The right candidate should be proactive and resourceful. They should be able to anticipate needs, follow through on details, communicate clearly, and help keep legal work moving forward. They should also be comfortable switching between administrative support, document preparation, scheduling, research assistance, and legal project coordination.

This person should take pride in accuracy, organization, and dependable support. They should understand that the legal team often works on sensitive, time-critical, and high-impact matters, and they should be able to contribute calmly and effectively in a fast-paced environment.

## Work Environment

This role will involve close collaboration with the General Counsel, attorneys, legal professionals, executives, internal business teams, external counsel, vendors, and other stakeholders. The Senior Legal Assistant should be comfortable working in a professional office or hybrid environment, depending on company policy.

The position requires strong communication, discretion, follow-through, and the ability to manage multiple priorities at once. The successful candidate should be able to work independently while remaining closely aligned with the needs of the legal team.

## Compensation and Benefits

Compensation will be based on experience, qualifications, location, and overall fit for the role. Benefits may include:

* Competitive salary
* Full-time employment
* Health, dental, and vision benefits
* Paid time off
* Retirement plan options
* Professional development opportunities
* Collaborative legal team environment
* Opportunity to support meaningful legal and business initiatives
* Opportunity to work with senior leadership and cross-functional teams

## Equal Opportunity Statement

TerraPower is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, experience, skills, and business needs. The company is committed to maintaining a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative work environment.