Legal Assistant

This is a Full Time Job

HBO, the world's premiere premium entertainment service, seeks an exceptional Legal Assistant to provide outstanding support to a Senior Counsel and Director, Legal Affairs, West Coast Original Programming. The Senior Counsel and Director are part of a team handling a wide variety of legal matters related to the development and production of HBO's award-winning Original Series and Films. The successful candidate will work closely and collaboratively in a fast-paced, exciting entertainment environment with the department's attorneys, paralegals and assistants, colleagues across HBO and our productions, as well as talent representatives.

The Daily
• Provide a professional, warm and resourceful telephone presence, placing, receiving and troubleshooting calls for direct supervisors
• Schedule and organize meetings, make travel arrangements, manage calendar and generally assist as required
• Prepare, proofread and redline legal documents, including drafting contracts and correspondence
• Maintain development, production and other legal digital files, and keep project filing current
• Follow-up on outstanding contracts, process and distribute documents and update reports
• Timely prepare and process expense reports, outside counsel bills, order supplies
• Provide backup support to other assistants within the department
• Miscellaneous departmental tasks
• Overtime may be required

The Essentials
• Bachelor's Degree preferred but not required and minimum 5 years in an entertainment law firm or studio or network legal or business affairs department
• Professional demeanor and ability to be discreet and maintain confidentiality at all times
• Strong time management skills (proven abilities to prioritize tasks, multitask, meet deadlines, work independently, proactively and reliably)
• Ability to build and maintain business relationships and be calm and flexible under pressure and amidst changing priorities
• A fun, can-do, cheerful, collaborative attitude
• Tech-savvy individual, with extensive experience in all Microsoft applications (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams), AdobeSign, PDFs, scanning, etc.
• Effective organizational skills required, strong attention to detail, excellent oral, written and interpersonal communications skills and emotional intelligence are essential