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Key Responsibilities:- Work closely with finance, production, and creative executives throughout all stages of the deal-making process.- Structure, negotiate, and close various agreements, including production services, director, writer, talent, executive producer, and shopping agreements.- Manage all guild agreements, including WGA, DGA, SAG-AFTRA, IATSE, and AFofM.- Provide on-site and day-to-day management of unscripted and tentpole events, including Celebrity Squares, Rhythm & Flow, the Primetime Emmy Awards, Superbowl LVI, LVII, and LVIII halftime shows, the Grammy Salute to 50 Years of Hip Hop, the BET Awards, the BET Hip Hop Awards, and the Soul Train Awards.- Structure and negotiate development deals with major studios, such as Netflix, NBCU/Peacock, Meta/Facebook, BET Networks/Vh1, and Amazon.- Supervise the negotiations of one contract manager.- Create and supervise key organizational grids for tracking projects and the legal deal updatesAchievements:- Successfully closed high-profile agreements contributing to the success of major events and productions.- Efficiently manage and navigate complex negotiations with various guilds.- Play a key role in securing and executing development deals with major studios.- Propose and oversee the implementation of strategic cost-saving initiatives for unscripted series within the company

• Negotiated, drafted and structured development and production agreements for scripted, unscripted and tent-pole programming (e.g., producer, writer, production services, talent agreements, venue and location releases)• Negotiated and drafted marketing and production-related agreements including: Talent/influencer agreements, master service agreements, event & sponsorship agreements and non-disclosure agreements • Maintained and tracked all contract options for original programming and ensure that development and production executives are regularly updated on expiration dates• Prepared production cost comparison analyses to advise creative and production teams• Drafted license agreements• Oversaw contract administration and compliance• Drafted contract summaries and facilitate with other special projects as requested by senior business and legal affairs executives• Solid understanding of above-the-line union labor agreements and issues (i.e. SAG-AFTRA, WGA, and DGA issues)• Provided on-site coverage for tent-poles and original programming (e.g. BET Awards & BET Experience, BET Hip Hop Awards, Soul Train Awards, NAACP Image Awards and Black Girls Rock! Awards)

• Created and maintained the first custom database in the Central District of California for magistrate judges for use in settlement conferences. • Worked with the director of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) program to quantify data gathered in participant and mediator surveys as well as court filed mediation reports

• Drafted requests for contracts with negotiated deal points for submission to legal affairs• Reviewed deal agreements to ensure terms match requests for contract• Observed negotiation calls between agents and senior attorneys• Conducted research regarding rights and chain of title

• Drafted legal complaints, letters to defendants, letters to the court, and letters to clients• Prepared all court filings for cases, distributed them to the process servers, and filed them with the court• Prepared discovery documents and sent to opposing counsel• Tracked all billable hours within Amicus Attorney software

• Drafted abstract summaries for deal memoranda• Reviewed redline contracts and summarized opposing counsel changes to contracts for attorneys• Conducted due diligence for legal rights and clearances for show participant and location agreements• Maintained weekly chart with updates for the unscripted shows in development and filed legal agreements once fully executed• Tracked legal documents through execution

• Conducted legal research and prepared weekly memoranda for evaluating new cases • Conducted prospective client interviews, prepared intake memoranda and updated weekly new case memoranda• Drafted retainers and legal agreements • Executed all new legal agreements for the firm