Senior Counsel
The Walt Disney Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Los Angeles • California, Connecticut, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $174,600 - $225,800 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Maintains current knowledge of substantial range of federal, state, and local laws
- Serves as primary Legal Department representative for assigned ESPN departments or categories
- Drafts contracts and other legal documents, recommends approval/modification of contracts proposed by outside parties
- Possesses and maintains knowledge in specialized legal areas
- Conceives and recommends strategies and tactics in response to legislative and regulatory developments
- Keeps internal clients fully informed of relevant legal issues
- Reviews and edits significant guidelines, policies, letters, work orders, and other documents from applicable client departments
- Manages outside counsel in their representation of ESPN on litigation and other legal service matters
- May directly supervise, on a non-exclusive basis, one or more Paralegal and Legal Assistant colleagues
- Recommends and may implement Legal Department policy
- Operates within the context of defined corporate strategies
- Translates the analysis and evaluation of trends in ESPN’s legal positioning and compliance into recommended corporate actions
- Analyzes the legal implications of proposed ventures and current operations
Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years relevant experience, including extensive drafting, in a transactional IP practice at a law firm, network/studio, sports league, agency, and/or other in-house legal department
- A strong understanding of content agreement negotiating
- Familiarity with entertainment, broadcast/cable, internet, mobile, direct-to-consumer, social and other digital media and/or sports businesses
- Excellent interpersonal, written/verbal communication, and analytical skills
- Excellent organizational, prioritization, and time management skills with the ability to work under tight deadlines and execute efficiently against multiple, high-priority and high-volume projects in a fast-paced environment
Benefits
- A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
- full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered
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Hard skills
contract draftinglegal document reviewlegal analysiscompliance evaluationtransactional IP practicecontent agreement negotiationlitigation managementpolicy implementationlegal researchregulatory strategy
Soft skills
interpersonal skillswritten communicationverbal communicationanalytical skillsorganizational skillsprioritizationtime managementability to work under tight deadlinesexecution efficiencyproject management