Counsel, Focus Features

NBCUniversal•Universal City, CA

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Focus Features is seeking a hardworking, motivated, and skilled individual to join their legal team as a lawyer. This unique and complex role involves both production and acquisition work, requiring the ability to manage a wide variety of tasks with different complexities and priorities with minimal supervision. The role offers the opportunity to negotiate and draft acquisition, development, and production agreements, analyze and interpret various contracts to provide legal advice on potential risks and issues, and handle all legal matters during production, including evaluating rights and chain of title issues, clearance matters, guild issues, and advertising, promotion, and publicity issues. The position also involves collaborating with key company departments across Focus and Universal, such as Creative, Business, Production, Finance, Labor and Employment, Marketing, Promotions, Insurance, and Tax, and supporting special projects as needed.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Proactive, solution-oriented mindset to problem solving
Ability to build strong partnerships and influence stakeholders across all levels of the organization
Effectively manage multiple priorities and deliver in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments
Excellent communication skills
Computer literacy
Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Responsibilities

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