Associate Counsel, Intellectual Property

Job Description

Responsibilities
Role Purpose
This position resides within the IP Analysis & Insights team, which is responsible for advising NBCUniversal divisions worldwide regarding rights and other intellectual property issues that arise across all phases of its business.

Responsibilities include
• Assuming a pivotal role in identifying, validating, and enhancing intellectual property opportunities as well as contributing to strategies across NBCUniversal's worldwide footprint
• Reviewing and interpreting development, production, and distribution agreements to provide advice on issues such as property acquisition (including chain of title and scope of the grant), distribution rights (including via new media / streaming), remake / sequel rights, live event rights, merchandising / interactive rights, and theme park rights
• Analyzing copyright and related issues associated with the exercise of rights in cutting-edge, technologically sophisticated new use cases
• Advising NBCUniversal business and legal divisions, both verbally and in writing, regarding deal terms and contractual language in draft agreements related to intellectual property rights
• Providing timely production clearance/risk advice in connection with active projects
• Efficiently navigating multiple electronic databases and reviewing corporate files and other sources for relevant rights information about current and library properties
• Supporting transformational enterprise initiative that seeks to evolve the way rights are acquired, analyzed, managed, and shared across NBCUniversal

Qualifications/Requirements
Basic Qualifications
• Member of California bar or other US state bar
• JD or LLM degree from an accredited law school
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in the media law field, either at a law firm or comparable corporate setting

Eligibility Requirements
• Must be willing to work in Universal City, CA

Desired Characteristics

Desired Characteristics
• Outstanding academic credentials
• Highly motivated self-starter with a keen intellectual curiosity and aptitude for identifying and analyzing complex legal issues
• Superb organizational skills with the ability to handle a large workload consisting of multiple, high-priority tasks in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines under pressure
• Accomplished writer and communicator capable of synthesizing and conveying complex and nuanced legal issues to representatives from diverse business, legal, and creative divisions
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, including enthusiasm for working in a highly collaborative team environment and the ability to develop robust working relationships with multiple business units and their representatives
• Comfortable working with unique, proprietary electronic databases / applications
• Sound, practical business judgment; adaptability to manage multiple wide-ranging matters and changing priorities, conflicting deadlines, and new areas of expertise as business needs change

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rb754y-3-145-60-166-42 in your application.