Jr. Associate, Legal Affairs

This is a Full Time Job

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Jr. Associate, Legal Affairs

A little bit about our team:

Warner Music's Center of Excellence for Shared Services, opened in 2017 and is the home to the financial, legal and administrative functions that provide critical support and best-in-class services to our US Recorded Music and Publishing businesses. The Nashville center embodies the innovative and creative spirit that stems from the company's deep history in nurturing entrepreneurial thinking and artist-focused innovation, enabling our employees to develop a wide range of skills through cross-function collaboration and development opportunities.

The Legal Department is responsible for enforcing WMG's rights in the recorded music catalog repertoire controlled by its U.S. record labels, managing litigations involving WMG's recorded music catalog rights in conjunction with WMG's corporate litigation in-house counsel, fielding inquiries from third parties, researching WMG's recorded music catalog rights, filing applications to register copyrights in and to WMG's recorded music repertoire, and managing WMG's relationships with the labor unions with which WMG's U.S. record labels have collective bargaining agreements.

Members of the Legal Department work closely with employees in the Business Affairs, Finance, Production, Operations, New Media, and Marketing departments of each label client to fulfill the above-referenced responsibilities for the recordings and record those labels release.

Why this could be your next big break:

The candidate hired to fill this position will: (1) conduct general legal research pertaining to WMG's rights in its existing recording agreements and advise various internal business units regarding those rights and recording agreements, (2) research, answer and resolve inquiries from both internal business units and artists, producers, and other third parties, and (3) assist with the management of incoming claims.

Here you'll get to:
• Perform general catalog legal research pertaining to WMG's rights in its existing recording agreements and other contracts, including reviewing, analyzing and interpreting various provisions in the recording agreements and other contracts at the request of various internal business units such as the royalty, publishing, and revenue assurance teams;
• Manage and deliver on special catalog rights research projects in support of various internal business units in accordance with deadlines;
• Field, research, and resolve incoming inquiries from recording artists, producers, and other third party royalty participants, and their representatives;
• Field, research, and resolve incoming legal claims from recording artists, other third parties, and their representatives, including accounting claims, copyright claims, sample claims, and reversion-of-rights claims;
• Communicate the relevant details of the aforementioned incoming inquiries and claims to the relevant internal clients, and work with other attorneys in the Legal Department to secure the approval of such clients over the resolution of such matters;
• Draft legal documen