Contract Transactional Entertainment Attorney

This is a Freelance Job

Beverly Hills boutique entertainment law firm specializing in film, television, and digital/new media is looking for contract transactional entertainment attorneys for hourly overflow work.

Candidates should have minimum 3-5 years of experience on the talent and/or production side.
Rate to be NIGF.

Approximate Duties:
• Review and draft a broad base of contracts, deals, and legal correspondence for the firm and its clients, primarily in the film, television, and digital/ new media and arenas.
• Negotiate and draft various talent agreements, producer agreements, rights agreements, option agreements, production service agreements, network agreements, and prepare other agreements.

• Work with and advise production teams for various projects and potentially acting as a liaison between the production teams and the network legal team during all stages of production (pre-production, production and post-production).
• Review programming for legal clearance and compliance with production protocol.
• Potentially liaise with outside counsel as necessary in handling production legal, litigation, copyright and trademark, music, and rights and clearance matters.

Skills/Qualifications:
• Strong academic credentials from an ABA-accredited law school and California Bar admission.
• Minimum 3 - 5 years of entertainment film, television (scripted and unscripted), digital and new media production legal experience required. Please do not apply without this.
• Experience in guild, distribution, social media, endorsement, etc. deals, licensing of programming from digital to traditional media, etc. a plus.
• Analytical, problem- solving, interpersonal, negotiation, strategic thinking, and legal reasoning skills.
• Strong project management, time management, and long-term planning skills.
• Able to interpret entertainment contracts, guild guidelines, talent agreements, and production agreements.
• Able to work efficiently as a team member as well as manage issues and workload independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to multi-task in fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Excellent writing and organizational skills, including clear and effective written and verbal communication skills, a can-do, no job is too small, team attitude.
• Must have excellent personal and professional references