Counsel, Legal Affairs

Come be a member of the dynamic and tight-knit team that provides full-service legal support for NBCUniversal’s late night, specials and live events programming (which includes such flagship properties as Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night With Seth Meyers, The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, NBC’s live musicals, The Las Culturistas Culture Awards, NBCUniversal’s iconic holiday programming, and many others). The work involves providing practical and strategic guidance in an extremely faced-paced setting throughout all stages of the production process, with a focus on vetting show concepts and creative materials, engaging in risk analysis, as well as negotiating and drafting a wide variety of agreements. This role will report to the head of legal affairs for late night, specials, and live events and will collaborate closely with many functions and senior leadership across NBCUniversal. Given the nature of the programming that this team supports, weekend, holiday, and evening work will occasionally be required.

Responsibilities:

• Negotiate, draft, review and interpret a variety of deals, including talent, writer, producer, and director agreements, licenses, rights agreements, production services contracts, as well as other documentation
• As a member of the production team, conduct pre-broadcast review of scripts and creative materials, with a focus on defamation, intellectual property, fair use, music clearance, and privacy in the comedy context, overseeing all production legal issues
• Advise teams across the NBCUniversal portfolio on legal issues pertaining to late night, specials, and live events, with an emphasis on practical and strategic risk assessment and creative problem solving
• Identify and implement improvements to forms and processes in collaboration with colleagues across the legal function
• Handle other matters as needed