Legal Analyst

Legal Analyst

Overview

The Intellectual Property team’s TRA©K-IP Group is hiring a Legal Analyst who will be responsible for rights analyses of numerous types of entertainment agreements, including distribution, acquisition, co-financing, co-production, multi-picture, network license, and talent agreements. The Analyst also will be responsible for researching, entering, updating, and managing data in various systems used by the department and Company.

The TRA©K-IP Group serves clients across SPE’s divisions around the world, including domestic and international sales/distribution, motion picture and television production and acquisitions, local language productions and acquisitions, and consumer products and other ancillary exploitation groups.

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Vice President of Legal-IP department, determine and internally communicate the company’s rights and associated restrictions and obligations in its currently owned properties:

• Research and locate all relevant agreements

• Review, analyze, and prepare summaries of the agreements, including literary rights acquisition, co-production, finance, distribution, network license, digital rights, and talent agreements.

• Analyze and enter complex distribution rights in relevant systems (e.g., media, term, territories, holdbacks, windows) as well as associated restrictions and obligations

• As needed: analyze remake/sequel and ancillary rights; apply relevant copyright and Guild principles to analyses; handle other miscellaneous rights-related assignments

• Draft emails and memos to clients

• Enter information, as needed, into various Company databases

• The Legal Analyst will be responsible for understanding the business practices and legal issues relevant to this work, and for proactively communicating with clients and supervisors to resolve issues.

Qualifications

• BA/BS or equivalent experience

• Experience with entertainment industry contracts, including experience analyzing distribution and other rights.

• Experience working with complex databases (including for purposes of research, analysis, and data entry) strongly preferred.

• Ability to analyze, interpret and summarize complex contract language and communicate complex issues in a succinct and clear manner.

• Excellent analytical and issue-spotting skills

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• Demonstrated ability to pay attention to detail

• Excellent judgment and common sense

• Strong organizational skills, ability to manage project flow and work processes, and attendant follow-up and follow through.

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work cohesively in a collaborative environment.

• Ability to work independently, prioritize work, and meet deadlines

• Ability to be flexible and work well in a fast-paced environment where priorities are subject to revision based on business needs.

• Paralegal certificate a plus

• $80,000 - $92,00