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Director- Business & Legal Affairs
Discovery Communications
Los Angeles, CA
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We are seeking candidates for the position of Director- Business & Legal Affairs to be located in our Los Angeles, California office.
Position Summary:
The Director, Business & Legal, Affairs is responsible for independently handling business and legal negotiations, drafting of a television contracts, and advising on content-related legal issues for a wide variety of production and programming transactions for a some of Discovery's networks with a focus on documentary and non-scripted reality programming.
Responsibilities:
1. Assume responsibility for project/deal negotiations and preparation of documentation for producing, financing, and/or acquiring television product for Discovery networks.
2. Negotiate all business and legal terms with producer's lawyers and agents or other representatives, including standard terms and conditions, back-end participation and ancillary deal components such as the licensing and granting of rights.
3. Independently draft and/or review original programming, development and commissions production, co-production, acquisition, and other agreements.
4. Thoroughly coordinate and solve problems for all business and legal issues related to the assigned deals, including communicating with network executives and other colleagues regarding deal status and content risks.
5. Handle and identify any business or legal issues, coordinate with standards and practices, ad sales, and marketing/PR, manage production legal issues and problems, evaluate commercial and licensing terms.
6. Review and draft ancillary production related documents such as access agreements, releases, consultant agreements.
7. Assume accountability for deals under tight timelines while acquiring appropriate rights package within budgetary parameters.
8. Manage business practices in concert with network editorial/creative and production management.
9. Provide on-going business and legal advice to internal clients concerning pre-publication production, broadcast clearance and other issues (e.g. copyright and publicity rights issues) as needed.
Requirements:
* Applicants must have at least 5-6 years of legal experience in the entertainment industry, or commensurate transactional experience in the entertainment division of a law firm.
* Strong academic credentials from an ABA-accredited law school and California Bar admission are preferred.
* Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
* A demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a very high-volume workload.
* Knowledge of television program and talent agreements and/or cable industry required.
* Applicants must be industrious and self-motivated with demonstrated ability to take the initiative, make firm decisions, manage projects, and offer a high level of customer service.
* Excellent business and legal judgment.
* Excellent people skills and ability to develop and maintain productive working relationships with internal and external partners.
* Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, Lotus Notes, and other software applications required.
* Must have the legal right to work in the United States.
**Discovery is committed to being an employer of choice. Not just a good place to work, but a great and inclusive place to work. Discovery values the unique point of view each employee brings to the workplace. We strive to recruit and maintain a workforce that meaningfully represents the diverse and culturally rich audiences we wish to attract and serve.**
Discovery Communications is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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We are seeking candidates for the position of Director- Business & Legal Affairs to be located in our Los Angeles, California office.
Position Summary:
The Director, Business & Legal, Affairs is responsible for independently handling business and legal negotiations, drafting of a television contracts, and advising on content-related legal issues for a wide variety of production and programming transactions for a some of Discovery's networks with a focus on documentary and non-scripted reality programming.
Responsibilities:
1. Assume responsibility for project/deal negotiations and preparation of documentation for producing, financing, and/or acquiring television product for Discovery networks.
2. Negotiate all business and legal terms with producer's lawyers and agents or other representatives, including standard terms and conditions, back-end participation and ancillary deal components such as the licensing and granting of rights.
3. Independently draft and/or review original programming, development and commissions production, co-production, acquisition, and other agreements.
4. Thoroughly coordinate and solve problems for all business and legal issues related to the assigned deals, including communicating with network executives and other colleagues regarding deal status and content risks.
5. Handle and identify any business or legal issues, coordinate with standards and practices, ad sales, and marketing/PR, manage production legal issues and problems, evaluate commercial and licensing terms.
6. Review and draft ancillary production related documents such as access agreements, releases, consultant agreements.
7. Assume accountability for deals under tight timelines while acquiring appropriate rights package within budgetary parameters.
8. Manage business practices in concert with network editorial/creative and production management.
9. Provide on-going business and legal advice to internal clients concerning pre-publication production, broadcast clearance and other issues (e.g. copyright and publicity rights issues) as needed.
Requirements:
* Applicants must have at least 5-6 years of legal experience in the entertainment industry, or commensurate transactional experience in the entertainment division of a law firm.
* Strong academic credentials from an ABA-accredited law school and California Bar admission are preferred.
* Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
* A demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a very high-volume workload.
* Knowledge of television program and talent agreements and/or cable industry required.
* Applicants must be industrious and self-motivated with demonstrated ability to take the initiative, make firm decisions, manage projects, and offer a high level of customer service.
* Excellent business and legal judgment.
* Excellent people skills and ability to develop and maintain productive working relationships with internal and external partners.
* Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, Lotus Notes, and other software applications required.
* Must have the legal right to work in the United States.
**Discovery is committed to being an employer of choice. Not just a good place to work, but a great and inclusive place to work. Discovery values the unique point of view each employee brings to the workplace. We strive to recruit and maintain a workforce that meaningfully represents the diverse and culturally rich audiences we wish to attract and serve.**
Discovery Communications is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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