Associate Counsel

This is a Full Time Job

Job Title: Associate Counsel

Department: Legal

Reports to: Associate General Counsel

Manages: N/A

Position Summary: Assist the General Counsel & Associate General Counsel with legal matters associated with operations, including the matters described below.

Essential Functions (Duties & Responsibilities**):
• Primary responsibility for the drafting and review of rules for contests, sweepstakes, raffles, and other consumer promotions, and related promotional materials.
• Prepare, review, and negotiate a wide variety of commercial agreements to support internal business teams, including service agreements, facility use agreements, event agreements, production agreements, sponsorship agreements, license agreements, technology agreements, and NDAs.
• Prepare and review liability waivers and media releases for various events and activities.
• Assist with the preparation, review, and negotiation of agreements relating to artist, photographer, and influencer engagements.
• Support compliance efforts related to privacy, data protection and security, and other regulatory matters, including tracking and responding to data privacy requests.
• Collaborate with internal business teams to develop strategies for addressing legal issues and improving business processes, including compliance with NBA rules.
• Support senior in-house counsel and outside counsel on litigation matters.
• Assist with licensing, enforcement, and maintenance of organization-wide trademarks, copyrights, and other intellectual property matters.
• Assist with insurance coverage, analysis, policies, risk management assessment and prevention, and related matters.
• Assist General Counsel and Associate General Counsel with corporate governance matters.
• Perform legal research and provide written and verbal legal advice as needed.
• Develop, update, and implement internal policies, processes, forms, and templates to support internal business teams.
• Provide operational support to Legal Department, including contract management, matter tracking, and other administrative tasks as needed.
• Miscellaneous: Such other matters as may be directed by the General Counsel, Associate General Counsel, CFO, COO and President.

**Responsibilities subject to change based on organizational needs and direction from management.

Education/ Certification:
• Bachelor’s Degree required
• Juris Doctor Degree from accredited law school required
• Licensed to practice law in California

Previous experience:
• Minimum two (2) years of relevant legal experience at a law firm and/or in-house
• Experience in sports, entertainment, and/or live events is strongly preferred

Knowledge, skills, abilities:
• Detailed oriented
• Hard-working and business-minded
• Consistently meets deadlines
• Strong legal research and contractual/statutory interpretation abilities
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously
• Ability to work under pressure and to handle work-related stress
• Customer service oriented
• Able to work independently and productively with minimum supervision
• Aptitude to identify and assess legal and business risks
• Strong written and oral communication

Physical Demands: N/A

Location: El Segundo, California (offices M-F), and other occasional off-site events, as needed

Travel: N/A

Hours: Regular office hours (9am- 5:30pm M-F), must be available to work evenings, weekends and holidays when needed