Senior Associate - Copyright Transactions

Advocates Legal Recruiting • Silicon Valley, CA

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About The Position

Our AmLaw 100 client is hiring a senior associate to join the transactional side of a copyright -focused practice that sits at the center of tech, digital media, and music -driven business models. The work is sophisticated, current, and often first -impression for clients building or scaling content products.

Requirements

• Minimum 6 years of experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, ideally in copyright, IP licensing, tech transactions, or entertainment deals.
• Comfortable running negotiations and translating business goals into clean paper under real deadlines.

Nice To Haves

• Industry familiarity is a plus: music, entertainment, digital media, creator economy, content platforms.

Responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate commercial agreements with a heavy emphasis on copyright and content rights.
• Advise on “business -critical” content licenses and broader licensing strategy across digital products and platforms.
• Support counseling work tied to DMCA and platform/compliance strategy, working closely with litigators and regulatory lawyers when issues escalate.
• Work with clients across the content stack: rights clearance strategy, catalog build -outs, data/financial reporting, and user acquisition and retention questions in music and digital media.

Benefits

• Platform: a top -ranked media and entertainment transactional practice with a deep bench and consistent placement in leading directories.
• Substance: copyright issues tied to modern product design, licensing and commercialization, including digital copyright questions that show up in emerging tech and AI -adjacent workflows.
• Cross -disciplinary seat: you are not siloed. The practice spans counseling, deals, and high -stakes disputes, with real exposure to how copyright problems get solved end -to -end.
• Support: structured well -being resources and firmwide infrastructure that is actually built out, not just stated.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed