Job Description

Job Title: Attorney - Music/Entertainment Industry, Bilingual (English/Spanish)

Location: Miami Beach, FL 33139

Duration: 2 Months

Job Summary:

• Our Client is the world’s leading music company, committed to artistry, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
• We own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content in more than sixty (60) countries.
• We identify and develop recording artists and songwriters, and produce, distribute, and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to entertain fans around the world.
• We are currently seeking a highly motivated and bilingual (English/Spanish) attorney.
• This position is responsible for a heavy transaction flow in connection with the negotiation and drafting of various music and entertainment-related agreements, rights clearances, and rendering legal advice with respect to the acquisition of content and the exploitation of recorded product.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide ongoing legal counsel for the above-mentioned transactions
• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a variety of legal agreements, including exclusive recording, management, joint venture, profit sharing, production, producer, licensing, distribution, performer, and featured artist agreements, video, photo, remix, and other entertainment and music industry-related agreements.
• File and search documents in the Client’s contract data management system.
• Provide input and legal support in connection with the entertainment business strategies and the implementation thereof.
• Support senior attorneys in managing and responding to legal claims and inquiries
• Responsible for the review of data briefs, monitoring of critical dates, and other ongoing rights and obligations set forth in the agreements, and informing appropriate company personnel of such information
• Responsible for clearing legal rights and pre-approving the release of recorded products
• Liaise with Client’s central legal department and Client’s outside attorneys as needed with respect to litigation matters

Required Skills:

• Knowledge of agreements relating to production, distribution, sales, marketing, financing, recorded music, and video products
• Must be adept at drafting and negotiating recorded content acquisition, marketing, and exploitation agreements
• Strong knowledge of music law, music industry, intellectual property, and record label issues
• Must be able to work under time constraints
• Ability to juggle competing priorities
• Computer experience: Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and DocuSign.
• Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision and well organized
• Fluent in Spanish as required at a professional level

Experience:

• 2+ years of experience required
• Strong law firm and/or Business & Legal Affairs experience/training required

Education:

• BA/BS degree
• Juris Doctorate
• Licensed to practice law and a member in good standing in Florida

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