Real Estate Paralegal

As the Real Estate Paralegal, you will work with the Legal, Land, and Development Teams to support land acquisition and title efforts.  The ideal candidate will have relevant experience in real property transactions including leases, easements, and land purchases, co-tenancy and shared use agreements, title review and curative efforts, and title policies and surveys. You will deploy your outstanding organizational skills and attention to detail to assist Scout’s broader legal team in all aspects of project development and land control to help the company’s ambitious growth targets. The Real Estate Paralegal will report to the Senior Counsel.  

The Real Estate Paralegal will have strong expertise in land and title matters to provide the following services:  

• Perform real estate due diligence for land acquisition, both for Scout projects and potential land or project acquisitions from other renewable energy companies.  

• Support complex title and survey diligence; analyze commitments and proformas, title exception documents, mineral ownership reports, and ALTA surveys; identify required curative actions; prepare title and survey comments/revisions and correspond with title companies and surveyors; draft and negotiate title curative documents.  

• Coordinate the real estate aspects of construction debt, tax equity, and other financings; aid in the preparation and execution of closing documentation required for title insurance. 

• Analyze crossings, draft crossing consents and right-of-way agreements with third parties, and coordinate with the Construction team to ensure the accurate procurement of all necessary crossing rights. 

• Coordinate, track, and report on title review, title curative work, and survey work.  

• Utilize the broad suite of Scout’s form agreements to draft and negotiate leases, easements, purchase options, and ancillary transaction documents, including SNDAs, estoppels, notices, assignments, and amendments.  

• Support preliminary title review efforts.  

• Maintain real estate templates and support the development teams in their use.  

• Provide additional legal support as needed, including assistance with special projects as directed by the General Counsel and other Scout attorneys and/or assistance with various legal requests from other internal client groups.  

You will also play an important role in Scout’s continued growth and development as a company. We will ask you to consistently review and implement improvements to Scout’s legal process management, including the following:  

• Suggest changes to Scout form documents.  

• Create and implement efficient and scalable processes and procedures to support land acquisition efforts of the company.