Full Scale Fellow

This is a Full Time Job

Sony Music Entertainment aims to be a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can achieve their potential. A range of programming and initiatives help us promote sustainable change, both within our organization and beyond.

Sony Music Entertainment is seeking to hire two aspiring multicultural legal professionals for our 3-Year Business and Legal Affairs Rotation Program. This program will empower you to grow as an individual and as a valuable member of the team. You will gain genuine insight into the entertainment and corporate law experience of the music entertainment business through hands-on work and real time guidance from our lawyers. You will experience work life and culture at Sony Music Entertainment to contribute to important client work, build meaningful relationships, and access opportunities that will help shape your career.

What you'll do:
• Learn the basics of drafting and negotiating contracts and licenses such as:
• new license agreements, and amendments to existing agreements
• sync and technology agreements
• recording and termination agreements
• distribution agreements
• union agreements
• enterprise-wide transactions
• Review current and old contract terms
• Exposure to and draft NDA's
• Research claims and disputes
• Learn trademark basics such as how to conduct and analyze the trademark search; how to file and maintain registration of a trademark
• Learn about current legislative policies that could affect the music business.
• Provide legal support on label mergers, acquisitions, investments, joint venture and other strategic transactions; this includes:
• Assisting with M&A due diligence for targeted record labels
• Obtain working knowledge of intellectual property, employment, privacy, and related matters that arise in M&A
• Learn how to deliver consistent, strategic, risk-weighted, business-focused legal counsel

Who you are:
• This program is open to Spring/Winter 2021 and Spring 2022 law school graduates; a US law degree is required to be eligible
• Passion for working in the music industry
• Superior analytic, research, and writing skills
• Ability to conduct legal research as well as data-driven analyses
• Proven ability to work independently as well as within a team in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent interpersonal and verbal communication skills
• Self-motivated with the ability to take initiative
• Manage a variety of tasks and see projects through to completion in a timely fashion

What we give you:
• You join an inclusive, collaborative and global community where you have the opportunity to fuel the creative journey
• A modern office environment designed to foster productivity, creativity, and teamwork
• An attractive and comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life & disability coverage, and 401K employer matching
• Voluntary benefits like company-paid identity theft protection and resources for pets, mental health and meditation resources, industry-leading fertility coverage, fully paid leave for childbirth or bonding, fully paid leave for caregivers, programs for loved ones with developmental disabilities and neurodiversity, subsidized back-up child and elder care, and reimbursement for adoption, surrogacy, tuition and student loans
• We invest in your professional growth & development
• Time off for a winter recess

This position requires that the job candidate be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Please note that an applicant will be considered fully vaccinated two weeks after their second dose in a 2-dose vaccine series (Pfizer or Moderna), or two weeks after a single-dose vaccine (Johnson & Johnson's Janssen vaccine). The Company will consider requests for reasonable accommodations for documented medical reasons and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. Please do not include proof of vaccine status or any indication of a possible request for an accommodation when submitting your application materials. If applicable, the Company will follow up with you directly to request proof of vaccination and to discuss any potential accommodations.