In one sentence
The legal-team member coordinating documents, signatures, and recordings in a loan closing under attorney supervision.
The longer version
Closing paralegals do the operational heavy lifting on the legal side: assembling documents, tracking signatures, coordinating recordings, and maintaining the closing checklist from counsel's perspective.
When the lender's checklist and counsel's checklist are separate, reconciliation eats time; when they share one live list, the paralegal and closer stop maintaining parallel trackers.
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