Legal Internship

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 expansion solutions. Since inception, LS Power has developed or acquired 50,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, battery energy storage, and natural gas-fired facilities. Through its transmission business, LS Power Grid, the company built and operates 780+ miles of high-voltage transmission and 7 transmission utilities and has another 375+ miles currently in construction or development. LS Power actively invests in and scales businesses that are meeting the growing needs of the energy expansion, including electric vehicle charging, demand response, microgrids, renewable fuels and waste-to-energy platforms. Over the years, LS Power has raised more than $76 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 Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork, and Taking Ownership. We ask every candidate to think about how their unique skillsets, capabilities, and experiences can help us further strengthen our culture.

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.

Compensation

The salary for this role is $20.00. This is the range that we in good faith anticipate relying on when setting wages for this position. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in New Jersey.  This salary range may also be modified in the future.

About the Role

We currently have an opportunity for a Legal/Paralegal Intern to join our team in our East Brunswick, NJ office. In this role, you will support the legal team by performing a variety of administrative and operational tasks. Responsibilities will include assisting with record-keeping, scanning and filing across multiple systems and platforms, and providing backup support to team members, all while handling legal and confidential information with discretion. This position involves working with internal staff across multiple offices and will also require communication with external vendors and law firms.

This is an on-site, part-time internship based in East Brunswick, New Jersey, requiring approximately 10–20 hours per week. Hours are flexible and can be scheduled around summer coursework, but must fall within core business hours of 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Availability on Tuesdays through Thursdays is preferred.

Responsibilities

What you wil do

• Completes a diverse and sometimes complex array of filing, adhering to multiple filing systems (including, but not limited to, hard copy filing, updating electronic databases and utilizing various tools/platforms such as document management systems and SharePoint)
• Assists Legal Administrative Assistant in the review, organization and processing of a large volume of legal and vendor invoices; ability to quickly learn and adapt a new web-based billing system a plus
• May assist Senior Corporate Paralegal with fielding internal requests for certain information and aggregating or generating information summaries; 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
• May complete various ad hoc projects for the legal or compliance teams
• May work with, field or otherwise submit land records for recording
• Additional duties and responsibilities as needed

Qualifications

We want you on our team because you

• Are currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or higher-level degree (preferred)
• Are currently pursuing or have completed a Paralegal Certificate from an ABA-approved program (a plus)
• Are punctual and reliable
• Have excellent time management and organizational skills
• Have the ability to complete tasks with accuracy and strong attention to detail at all times
• Have the ability to maintain strict confidentiality of sensitive and/or speculative information
• Have the ability to interact in a professional, friendly, and client-focused manner with all levels of staff across multiple offices
• Have the ability to complete tasks within a culture of compliance, adhering to corporate and compliance policies and directives
• Have the ability to work independently
• Have the ability to collaborate with a team of busy professionals who may travel, work from job sites, satellite offices, or other company locations, or otherwise work and communicate remotely
• Have proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite
• Have experience using SharePoint, Adobe Acrobat, and DocuSign (a plus)