Senior Associate - Copyright Transactions

Senior Associate - Copyright Transactions

Washington, United States | Posted on 01/22/2026

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.

• 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 escalates.
• 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.

• 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.

• 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 firm‑wide infrastructure that is actually built out, not just stated.

Market compensation (Cravath-scale structure for class years is reflected in the posting). Base + Bonus

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