About this role
Role Overview
- The Trademark Senior Paralegal supports Walmart’s global trademark and copyright portfolios by maintaining dockets, monitoring deadlines, and ensuring compliance with U.S. and foreign formality requirements.
- Collaborate with and assist trademark attorneys, outside counsel, and business clients, with trademark-related inquiries and generate dashboards and reports to track internal trademark statistics using Anaqua.
- Support a global trademark portfolio by applying expert knowledge and understanding of U.S. and foreign trademark filing and prosecution practices and trademark formalities.
- Coordinate, support, and supervise outside counsel during all stages of trademark review, clearance, and opinion work, including trademark filing, prosecution, and renewals, managing of deadlines and facilitating signing and filing of documents.
- Manage and maintain an internal trademark database, ensure data quality, and generate dashboards and reports to track relevant trademark statistics and metrics.
- Establish and maintain internal best practices and procedures to support the company’s trademark program, including keeping and updating process documents and outside counsel guidelines.
- Assist trademark attorneys on all matters related to trademarks and copyright.
- Respond to routine business inquiries related to trademark and copyright matters.
- Develop and conduct training for business teams and other internal groups.
Requirements
- Experience as a paralegal in the trademark practice area.
- Experience with Anaqua or a similar IP management system.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize workloads and manage multiple deadlines.
- Familiarity with managing large dockets.
- Keen attention to detail.
- You are process-minded and look for opportunities to streamline for improved efficiency and effectiveness.
- Familiarity with fashion law and experience conducting product reviews.
- A nationally recognized paralegal certification or an ABA accredited paralegal degree AND 2 years’ experience as a paralegal, legal analyst, or otherwise performing the responsibilities of a paralegal as defined by Walmart’s job description OR 3 years’ experience as a paralegal, legal analyst, or otherwise performing the responsibilities of a paralegal as defined by Walmart’s job description OR a juris doctorate degree from an accredited law school.
Benefits
- Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
- Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
- Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
- Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
- Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.