Media & Broadcasting
Legal & Business Affairs Executive Search

Filcro Media Staffing recruits legal and media business affairs leadership and their required legal support functions in domestic and international markets.

Legal and Business Affairs professionals are recruited with specific media industry experience for each practice group and related legal function. 

Media related legal and business affairs searches involve: royalty, licensing, IP, regulatory, FCC, legislative, real estate, copyright, compliance, production, co-production, tower / cell and antenna, programming acquisition and distribution, syndication, employment, corporate housekeeping, labor, affiliate agreements, talent payment, M&A, SEC, launch vehicle and transponder agreements.

The firm functions with efficacy and expediency across the entire United States and the global media communities we service.

Since 1985, Filcro Media Staffing has built a respected media legal and business affairs practice.  The firm conducts searches for the world’s leading media and entertainment companies as well as the noted multinational law firms that provide legal services to a diverse global community of media, entertainment and telecommunications entities.

Every search is brought to fruition by professionals with extensive media industry recruitment experience.  The firm utilizes over thirty-years of acumen related to the business, technical and creative functions of specialized practice environments in law firms as well as the world’s largest media and entertainment conglomerates. 

The firm understands operational and business goals of the industry as we provide our clients with honed recruitment services that assure exceptionally qualified candidates are brought forward in a proper manner.  .

Filcro Media Staffing offers clients “scope” and “specialization”.  The firm’s capacity to  staff the entire media business affairs function from CCC to Paralegal with exceptional talent, is quite literal.  Filcro Media Staffing works collaboratively with Filcro Legal Staffing in New York and Silicon Valley for a number of our clients who have specialized recruitment needs.

Filcro Media Staffing
Media & Broadcasting Executive Search

Legal and Business Affairs Recruitment Group

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Director
Legal & Business Affairs

TV / Motion Picture / Documentary / Music Videos / Branded Entertainment

Location: New York, NY

The Firm:  Global Award Winning Production Company with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Germany and Hong Kong

Compensation: $150,000 to $170,000 with 100% paid benefits and more

Job Summary:

The Director of Legal & Business Affairs will serve as production attorney and counsel for all aspects of television specials, scripted and non-scripted series, feature-length films, documentaries, commercials and music videos as delegated by Executive Producers, Directors, clients, and other personnel, as well as outside counsel. This is an in-house position that affords great work / life balance for someone who works well in a highly creative environment.

Job Primary Responsibilities:

• Negotiate, draft and review personal services agreements for talent (including directors and key crew), non-disclosure agreements, location agreements, appearance releases, materials releases, vendor agreements and production services agreements.
• Oversee archival licensing for company projects with the goal of streamlining and standardizing the process.
• Conduct pre-broadcast clearance review for defamation, right of publicity/privacy, copyright, trademark and other matters, as appropriate and commensurate with background.

Job Qualifications and Requirements

• JD degree and a minimum 2-4 years of recent law firm or in-house counsel experience with an emphasis on production counsel work for non-scripted and scripted television and film projects.
• Must have excellent contract-drafting, interpersonal, and time-management skills.
• Experience with branded entertainment, commercials and music matters a plus, but not required.
• Should exhibit good business and legal judgment while working on multiple projects at once and under time constraints.
• Must be admitted to practice law in New York State.
• This executive should enjoy working in a highly creative environment.

Contact

Tony Filson
Filcro Media Staffing
US | LATAM | ASIA | EU | MENA
New York, NY  10017

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