SENIOR ASSOCIATE: COPYRIGHT TRANSACTIONS (6+ YEARS)
TECH + CONTENT | LA, SAN FRAN, SILICON VALLEY, DC, NYC
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.
Role summary
- 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.
Candidate profile
- 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.
- Industry familiarity is a plus: music, entertainment, digital media, creator economy, content platforms.
Why this role
- 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.
Locations
Los Angeles | San Francisco | Menlo Park | New York | Washington, D.C.
Comp
Market compensation (Cravath-scale structure for class years is reflected in the posting). Base + Bonus
Interested
If you send a resume, include a short deal sheet or a few representative agreements you have led (redacted is fine).