Business and Legal Affairs Attorney

Job Description

This executive will coordinate with other internal departments and external partners to ensure the legal and business affairs requirements of all productions and development projects are met.

Job responsibilities include structuring, drafting, negotiating, and tracking of all production agreements including development, shopping, production services agreements, format licenses, rights acquisition, participant, talent and showrunner agreements, and clearance related agreements including locations, clips, materials, music, licenses and appearance releases.

Additionally, the position will supervise day­ to-day production legal work for development, presentations, pilots, specials and series; provide complex risk assessment for all production related matters; perform legal research; interact with all departments and productions on a wide variety of business and legal matters including diligence, clearances, IP, risk management and legal procedures; and closely track all obligations, rights, and option expirations.

Required Qualifications:

• Must be in good standing with CA Bar

• Excellent written, communication and verbal skills

• Critical thinking and analytical skills

• Ability to prioritize a heavy workload and multi-task

• Proactive, results driven and works under pressure to meet deadlines

• Attention to detail, an organized self-starter and able to work independently

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

• A team player, with a great work ethic and the ability to maintain confidentiality

• Minimum of 3 years work experience in unscripted television production

Education: JD from an accredited institution preferred

Job Location: Los Angeles, CA (hybrid remote and in-person)

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

If interested, please send your resume and cover letter 

44 Blue’s policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws.

44 Blue has a mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policy. You must be fully vaccinated to enter any US production offices, sets, or the corporate office.Job offers will be conditioned on compliance with this policy. 44 Blue will make reasonable accommodations for individuals who cannot be vaccinated due to a disability or a sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance, unless the individual poses a direct threat to the health and safety of others. Applicants: please do not send exemption-related inquiries or requests to HR, or disclose information about your religion or disability, prior to receiving a job offer. Exemption requests cannot be evaluated until after a conditional offer of employment has been made.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g4wn9q-3-145-143-239-42 in your application.