What are the responsibilities and job description for the Legal Internship position at LS Power Development, LLC?
Overview
About us:
Founded in 1990, LS Power is a premier development, investment, and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector, with leading platforms across generation, transmission and energy transition solutions. Since inception, LS Power has developed or acquired over 47,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, battery energy storage, and natural gas-fired facilities. Through LS Power Grid, the firm has built and operates approximately 680 miles of high-voltage transmission and has another 200 miles and multiple grid infrastructure projects currently under construction or development. Across its efforts, LS Power actively invests in and scales businesses that are accelerating the energy transition, including electric vehicle charging, demand response, microgrids, renewable fuels and waste-to-energy platforms. Over the years, LS Power has raised $53 billion in debt and equity capital to support North American infrastructure.
Our Purpose, Mission, & Values:
Our Purpose is to solve complex energy problems that improve the world
Our Mission is to make lives better by developing a cleaner and more reliable energy ecosystem
Our Values are the willingness to participate in and help strengthen our culture of integrity, Innovation, Teamwork, and Taking Ownership
Our People create value and are our Most Valuable asset. We take our values of Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork and Taking Ownership seriously and ask candidates to think about how they can help us further enhance our culture with their specific skillsets, capabilities and experiences.
Benefits
We provide our team the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and continue in their career growth. We are committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits that include 100% employer paid premium healthcare, paid parental leave and more.
About the Role:
This role will support a wide variety of legal administrative and support/clerical duties for professional staff. Work performed will include a broad range of responsibilities involving legal and/or confidential information such as record-keeping (including scanning and filing using a variety of filing systems/platforms), support with corporate housekeeping and assistance with processing vendor bills.
The position entails working with all levels of internal staff across multiple offices and will also require communication with outside vendors/law firms.
This is an on-site, part-time internship in our office in East Brunswick, New Jersey, requiring approximately 10 to 15 hours of work each week. The hours are flexible but must be worked during our team’s core business hours, which are 8:30 am through 6 pm. Candidate availability on Tuesdays through Thursdays is strongly preferred.
The duration of this internship is expected to be 10 to 12 weeks.
Responsibilities
What you will do:
- Completes a diverse and sometimes complex array of filing, adhering to multiple filing systems (including, but not limited to, scanning, hard copy filing, updating electronic databases, and updating network folders)
- Assists in the review, organization and processing of a large volume of legal and vendor invoices
- Prepares spreadsheets and initiates other tracking/escalation procedures for unpaid and/or disputed invoices
- May assist with fielding internal requests for certain information; ability to field and prioritize requests using proper judgment
- Upkeep of corporate books and legal files
- Manages mail (USPS, FedEx, UPS, etc), including distributing incoming mail/packages, date stamp incoming documents, and prepare outgoing certified mail/packages
- May assist with timesheets and expense reports
- May assist in arranging conference calls/dial-ins
- May complete various ad hoc projects for team
- Additional duties and responsibilities as needed
Qualifications
We want you on our team because you…
- Are currently pursuing an associate or bachelor’s degree or a Paralegal Certificate from an ABA approved program is a plus
- Are punctual, reliable, and have excellent time management and organizational skills.
- Able to always complete tasks with accuracy and great attention to detail.
- Can maintain the strict confidentiality of sensitive and/or speculative information.
- Can interact in a professional, friendly, and client-focused manner with all levels of staff across multiple offices.
- Can complete tasks within a culture of compliance, adhering to corporate/compliance policies and directives.
- Able to work independently.
