Counsel, Sports Business & Legal Affairs - Sports

Fox Corporation•Los Angeles, CA

18d

About The Position

FOX is currently seeking a Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs. The Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs primarily provides business and legal affairs-related support to the FOX Sports businesses. The Counsel, Business & Legal Affaris will generally support counseling, negotiating, drafting, and legal analysis of various contracts. The successful candidate will be required to skillfully balance legal versus business considerations and advise FOX’s legal and business leaders on their strategic options in order to help them make informed business decisions.

Requirements

3-5 years of transactional legal experience
Extensive drafting experience and ability to engage in complex legal analysis
Excellent reasoning, verbal, and written communication skills
Ability to handle high level reasoning tasks, and make common sense decisions tempered by good, accurate legal knowledge, often under extreme time limits
Ability to work well with clients and peers

Nice To Haves

Juris Doctor degree and active member of the California Bar; will consider those eligible for Registered In-House Counsel status (Rule 9.46)
Rigorous law firm experience
Intellectual property, developing technologies experience

Responsibilities

Draft a variety of sports rights acquisitions, talent deals, production, original programming, documentaries, field operations, advertising, licensing, sponsorship, and various other agreements; and negotiating the terms thereof related to FOX’s diverse portfolio of sports rights
Guide FOX Sports business executives through the process of acquiring and producing live sports events and original programming, including coordinating with outside counsel and internal legal contacts to ensure our business complies with local rules and requirements (e.g., compliance, privacy requirements, etc.)
Analyze a wide variety of contracts in response to business team questions, as well as providing necessary contractual/research information to senior business and legal executives
Work with various FOX Sports business groups to assist in litigation avoidance and contractual education/counseling for parties involved in negotiations
Protection of company from unnecessary litigation exposure
Provide occasional project oversight of paralegals, interns, law clerks, and assistants