Legal Counsel

This is a Full Time Job

We are looking for a hardworking, motivated, and skilled individual to join our legal team as a lawyer. This unique and complex role involves both production and acquisition work, so we are looking for someone who can manage a wide variety of tasks with different complexities and different priorities with minimal supervision.

Here you can:
• Negotiate and draft acquisition, development, and production agreements
• Analyze and interpret a variety of contracts to provide legal advice on potential risks and issues
• Handle all legal matters during production, including but not limited to evaluating rights and chain of title issues, clearance matters, guild issues, advertising, promotion, and publicity issues
• Collaborate with key company departments across Focus and Universal, including Creative, Business, Production, Finance, Labor and Employment, Marketing, Promotions, Insurance and Tax
• Support special projects as needed

Qualifications

What you will bring:
• JD degree from an accredited law school
• 4 years of production and/or transactional entertainment legal experience at a motion picture, television company, or major law firm
• Member of the California State Bar or Registered with the California Bar as in-house counsel
• Familiarity with copyright law (both US and foreign) and intellectual property issues
• Outstanding negotiation, drafting, and analytical skills

What sets you apart:
• You bring a proactive, solution-oriented mindset to problem solving
• You build strong partnerships and influence stakeholders across all levels of the organization
• You effectively manage multiple priorities and deliver in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments
• You have excellent communication skills, computer literacy, and the ability to work independently and as part of a team

Hybrid: This position currently has a hybrid schedule, which requires contributing from the office a minimum of four days per week. The Company reserves the right to change in-office requirements at any time.