Job Title: Manager, Business and Legal Affairs
Job Type: Full Time
Location: Los Angeles, CA
In-Office
Job Description:
- Negotiating all aspects for development deals of scripted programming deals
- Responsible for legal matters during production, including but not limited to evaluating rights/chain of title issues, clearance matters, guild issues, advertising, promotion and publicity issues.
- Taking the lead on special projects for the Business Affairs team as needed (e.g. research projects, summaries of precedent and past practices)
- Provide regular, effective and timely communications concerning deal negotiation and business strategy.
- Reports to the SVP, Business and Legal Affairs and provide support as requested.
- Perform other duties as assigned
Basic Qualifications:
- 7+ years prior experience at an entertainment law firm and/or major media entertainment
- JD degree and active member of California State Bar
- Minimum of 2 years of Business Affairs experience
- Knowledge of negotiating and documenting entertainment scripted transactions with an ability to operate independently with minimal supervision.
- Must be detailed oriented and possess superior negotiation, drafting, organizational and time management skills.
- Must have a cooperative, positive, team-oriented approach
- Ability to develop effective and productive working relationships
- Ability to communicate in a clear, concise and succinct manner both verbally and in writing
Job Requirements:
- Oversee legal functions, ensuring regulatory oversight and legal compliance
- Advise management on legal matters in order to guard the organization against legal liability
- Performing legal research and advising on complex legal and regulatory developments
- Assist legal team with other tasks
- Manage and coordinate legal operations
- Meet organization and legal requirements
- Provide legal updates and trainings
- Identify and analyze legal issues and risks, review and draft legal agreements, present clear recommendations, and assure legal compliance across the full spectrum of legal issues
- Serve as a key legal partner
- Maintain a vendor management process including a repository of legal and non-legal vendors
- Coordinate legal responses and document management for civil litigation
- Ensure compliance with all regulations and legal requirements
- Filing all necessary paperwork in legal process
- Develop and maintain a corporate legal filing system
- Conduct legal research, drafts more significant corporate legal documents, and assist more experienced attorneys in representing the corporation in legal disputes and transactions
- Advise senior business management and other Legal Department members on legal and business issues
- Advise management and business staff on legal and business issues
- Coordinate work with outside attorneys on civil litigation matters and consult with on sensitive legal issues
- Assist General Counsel and legal team to drive overall legal strategy and manage day-to-day legal operations, including establishment of processes and procedures
- Manage the annual legal department operating plan and budget, acting as liaison between the finance and legal department