The Cubs describe the place as “a essential participant within the Chicago Cubs Authorized Division and can present authorized assist to enterprise models throughout the Chicago Cubs group and its affiliated entities. The place will report on to the Affiliate Normal Counsel and can present assist on all authorized issues, together with drafting, reviewing and negotiating routine agreements, aiding in company and transactional workload, and litigation assist. This place would require glorious enterprise judgment, adept problem-solving and strategic pondering, with a capability to work independently and collaboratively in a collegial, fast-paced atmosphere.”
Day-to-day obligations embrace:
- Overview, draft and negotiate quite a lot of agreements together with vendor companies and programming agreements, industrial agreements, waivers, occasion contracts, non-disclosure agreements, advertising and sponsorship agreements, know-how and software program agreements, suite licenses, and actual property agreements
- Advise and help on promoting and advertising initiatives, together with sweepstakes, contests and promotions, and privateness issues, together with drafting guidelines, releases, and reviewing promotional and inventive supplies
- Help with creating, implementing and bettering insurance policies and compliance procedures firm vast
- Help with company governance and company finance issues, as requested
- Assist authorized group with the administration of varied litigation issues, together with by aiding with authorized analysis and doc manufacturing
- Guarantee and monitor compliance with contractual obligations and related regulation, together with privateness and knowledge safety legal guidelines and rules
- Help with administering and supporting the authorized division’s contract administration system
- Assist enterprise companions with respect to authorized points surrounding operations
- Assist facilitate the day-to-day operations and workload of an in-house authorized division
- Work carefully with and help Normal Counsel, Deputy Normal Counsel, Affiliate Normal Counsel, and different authorized group members
- All different duties, as assigned
Necessities for the place embrace:
- A Juris Physician diploma from an ABA accredited regulation college and admission to observe in Illinois
- Two to 4 years of authorized expertise required, ideally with an in-house authorized division
- Expertise drafting and reviewing contracts required
- Expertise in authorized issues associated to occasion and facility operations, industrial contracts, labor and employment, knowledge privateness, mental property, and/or promoting initiatives inspired
- Superior written and oral communication abilities, together with capability to translate authorized reasoning for non-lawyers
- Organizational abilities and enterprise acumen
- Sturdy consideration to element
- Wonderful interpersonal abilities; capability to construct robust, collaborative and consultative relationships with key enterprise companions
- Capacity to keep up the best stage of confidentiality
- Capacity to prioritize workload and use time effectively
- Flexibility and the flexibility to work non-standard hours as wanted
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