Legal Specialist - Legal & Corp Secretary - Akron FirstEnergy Headquarters

About the company

FirstEnergy

Utilities · 10,001+ employees

What you'll do

• Prepare, revise, proofread, and organize board and committee agendas, resolutions, consents, minutes, presentations, meeting books, and related governance materials under attorney supervision.
• Coordinate board, committee, member, shareholder, and officer approval processes, including meeting logistics, document circulation, signature collection, filing, and follow-up on action items.
• Maintain corporate records for transmission subsidiaries, affiliates, and joint ventures, including minute books, governance documents, organizational records, delegations of authority, and director and officer information.
• Track governance calendars, recurring approvals, filing requirements, entity deadlines, meeting dates, material due dates, and open action items; provide timely reminders and status updates to attorneys and business partners.
• Support entity formation, qualification, restructuring, dissolution, and ongoing entity maintenance activities, including coordination with registered agents, state filing offices, and internal stakeholders.
• Assist with preparation and administration of transaction documents, capital contribution and funding approvals, intercompany agreements, organizational actions, and closing materials under attorney supervision.
• Coordinate legal intake, routing, review, approval, execution, and storage of governance and corporate documents to promote timely and consistent completion of matters.
• Prepare governance summaries, approval checklists, organizational charts, status reports, trackers, and metrics for legal, business, and leadership use.
• Conduct legal and corporate research on governance requirements, internal precedent, organizational documents, and applicable corporate law, and compile findings for attorney review.
• Maintain organized legal and corporate files, manage version control, and ensure accurate storage and retrieval of executed documents, board materials, correspondence, and supporting records.
• Draft correspondence, notices, certifications, signature packages, officer and director questionnaires, and internal communications related to governance, entity, and transaction matters.
• Support due diligence, audits, regulatory requests, discovery, document collection, and issue resolution involving transmission entities and governance records as directed by attorneys.
• Help improve governance and legal operations processes, templates, trackers, document repositories, and technology-enabled workflows.
• Perform other legal support duties as assigned.
• Bachelor's degree in paralegal studies, legal studies, business, corporate governance, or a related discipline.
• Four or more years of relevant experience in legal support, paralegal work, corporate governance, entity management, transactional support, or corporate administration.
• Experience preparing, reviewing, organizing, and tracking board materials, resolutions, minutes, consents, entity records, transaction documents, or related legal documentation.
• Strong writing, proofreading, organization, and attention-to-detail skills, with the ability to produce accurate materials for executive and board-level audiences.
• Strong project coordination and deadline management skills with the ability to manage multiple entities, matters, and priorities in a deadline-driven environment.
• Ability to work effectively with attorneys, executives, directors, officers, business teams, and external service providers while handling confidential and sensitive information appropriately.
• Strong communication, analytical, problem-solving, and follow-through skills.
• Ability to work under attorney supervision, exercise sound judgment, and escalate legal, governance, or business questions appropriately.
• Ability to respond to internal client needs in a manner consistent with corporate values, business objectives, governance requirements, and risk tolerance.
• ABA Paralegal Certification, Certified Corporate Governance Professional credential, or equivalent preferred.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, especially Word, Excel, Outlook, Copilot, and PowerPoint; experience with document management, board portal, entity management, and workflow systems preferred.
• Experience supporting corporate secretarial, board and committee, subsidiary governance, joint venture, finance, or transactional matters.
• Familiarity with SharePoint, SAP, NetDocuments, board portal software, entity management platforms, electronic signature tools, or similar systems.
• Experience supporting utility, energy, infrastructure, transmission, or other regulated-industry legal and governance matters.

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