At Jimerson Birr, our team has accepted the lasting responsibility of protecting our clients’ rights, businesses, properties, investments, and finances.
Our professionals are integral, trusted advisers and advocates in both established and emerging businesses, giving our clients insights into legal and business considerations that guide prudent decision-making. We work with some of the world’s most respected and well-established businesses, as well as start-up visionaries, and individuals looking to overcome challenges.
About the Role
Jimerson Birr is hiring a Paralegal to support our General Business Advisory team, working across corporate, employment, and intellectual property matters, with particular depth in trademark practice. You’ll be the person keeping deals, filings, and disputes moving on time, across a docket that touches entity work, HR-adjacent employment matters, and brand protection.
Trademark work is where this seat earns its keep. You’re fluent in ESTTA, comfortable pulling and tracking TTAB files, and you know the difference between an Office Action that needs a quick response and an Opposition that needs a real strategy conversation. Madrid Protocol filings don’t rattle you, the USPTO’s systems are simply part of your daily toolkit, not something you have to relearn each time.
Across the rest of the docket, you move between corporate filings, contract review, and employment documents without losing your footing, adjusting your pace as deadlines shift. You’d rather run a proven checklist than reinvent one, and you trust a process that already works instead of second-guessing it matter to matter. You stay even-keeled under a full plate: factual, direct, and clear-headed when a matter gets tense.
This is your seat if:
• You can navigate ESTTA, TTAB dockets, Office Actions, Oppositions, and Madrid Protocol filings without a learning curve.
• You want structure and independence in the same job: a defined process to run, and the latitude to run it yourself.
• Deadlines and shifting priorities sharpen your focus rather than throwing you off.
• You’d rather perfect a checklist that already works than build a new one from scratch every time.
• You stay factual and steady when a matter gets tense, and keep the details straight under a full docket.