Junior Asssociate

This is a Full Time Job

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Junior Associate

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 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 be responsible for: (1) answering, researching and resolving inquiries from artists, producers, and other third parties, (2) performing general legal research pertaining to WMG's rights in existing recording agreements, (3) analyzing the recording agreements that govern WMG's existing catalog recordings and relaying analysis to Legal Department senior management, and (4) performing other tasks as requested by Legal Department senior management, such as drafting cease and desist letters, legal memoranda, letters of direction and general legal correspondence.

Here you'll get to:
• Field, research, resolve, and track incoming inquiries from recording artists, producers, and other third party royalty participants, and their representatives in a timely, customer-focused manner;
• Maintain security protocols and protect the company from risk by requesting and assessing documentation necessary to verify the identity of external inquirers before responding to the aforementioned inquiries;
• Review, analyze and interpret various provisions in the recording agreements that govern WMG's existing catalog recordings;
• Work with employees of the artist royalties department to determine the applicable royalty rates for a given record or product and answer other questions regarding WMG's contractual rights;
• Perform general legal research pertaining to WMG's rights in existing recording agreements;
• Draft cease and desist letters and other correspondence necessary in the pursuit of potential third party infringers;
• Review and revise (as n