Corporate Counsel, Intellectual Property

LEGO; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 108,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life and Disability Insurance

Headspace Wellness

Colleague Discount

Bonus Scheme

Hybrid Work Policy

Job summary

LEGO is seeking a Corporate Counsel, Intellectual Property Americas, to protect and strengthen the LEGO brand’s IP across the Americas. You will advise on trademark, copyright, patent, publicity rights, and enforcement matters while supporting regional and global IP strategies.

In this hybrid role, you will collaborate with legal colleagues, stakeholders, customs authorities, and external counsel to safeguard IP and guide practical business decisions.

Qualifications

• Advised on trademark, copyright, patent, and publicity rights matters.
• Led IP enforcement and brand protection initiatives with measurable outcomes.
• Licensed to practice in Massachusetts or in-house counsel status.

Responsibilities

• Protect LEGO brand across the Americas and support regional/global IP strategies.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, customs authorities, and external counsel.
• Strengthen IP enforcement programs and awareness of IP risks through training.
• Contribute to regional and global IP strategy initiatives and risk management.

Skills

IP legal advice

Brand protection

Enforcement experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

J.D./LL.M. or equivalent

Job description

Job Description

Just imagine protecting the ideas, creativity, and innovation behind one of the world's most recognized brands across the Americas. Then make it real.

About the role

As our Corporate Counsel, Intellectual Property Americas, you'll help protect and strengthen the LEGO® brand's intellectual property portfolio across the Americas. You'll provide legal advice on trademark, copyright, patent, publicity rights, brand protection, and enforcement matters while supporting regional and global intellectual property strategies. Working closely with legal colleagues, business stakeholders, customs authorities, and external counsel, you'll help safeguard the LEGO Group's intellectual property and support practical business decisions.

Required Qualifications

• Delivered legal advice across trademark, copyright, patent, and publicity rights matters
• Managed intellectual property enforcement and brand protection initiatives with measurable outcomes
• Led intellectual property disputes, enforcement actions, or litigation matters through resolution
• Built effective partnerships with business stakeholders and senior leaders while providing practical legal recommendations
• Juris Doctor (J.D.), LL.M., or equivalent law degree.
• Licensed and in good standing to practice law in the state of Massachusetts or become registered in-house counsel.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced customs enforcement or anti-counterfeiting program experience
• Developed intellectual property portfolio strategy, licensing, or prosecution approaches

What you'll build

• Support and advance key intellectual property enforcement initiatives across the Americas
• Strengthen relationships with customs authorities, enforcement partners, and external counsel
• Improve awareness of intellectual property risks and best practices through training programs
• Contribute to regional and global intellectual property strategy initiatives
• Help manage emerging infringement risks, counterfeit activity, and complex dispute-resolution matters
• Partner with stakeholders to balance legal risk management with practical business needs

If you've worked in a role where you advised on complex intellectual property matters, managed enforcement actions, and translated legal issues into business-focused recommendations, you'll feel at home here. What matters most is your ability to deliver sound legal guidance, influence decisions, and build trust with a wide range of stakeholders.

Life on the team

You'll join the Legal, Compliance & Responsibility Americas team within the CFO organization, reporting to the VP & General Counsel, Americas. We're a connected team working across Boston, Mexico City, Monterrey, Richmond, Billund, London, and Shanghai. Our hybrid rhythm helps us stay close to one another while partnering across legal disciplines and business functions. Success comes from thoughtful problem solving, strong communication, adaptability, learning agility, and the ability to collaborate effectively across cultures and geographies.

What success looks like

You’ll become a trusted advisor who helps protect the LEGO® brand while navigating complex intellectual property challenges across diverse jurisdictions. Over time, you’ll help strengthen enforcement programs, support closer alignment between regional and global strategies, and expand stakeholder education efforts. You’ll work closely with the Americas Legal Team, the Global Intellectual Property Legal Team, business leadership, customs authorities, enforcement agencies, and external counsel to help shape meaningful brand protection outcomes.

Compensation

The salary for this position has a range of $107,885.00 - $161,827.00 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer.

What’s in it for you?

• Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellbeing – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based
• Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme
• Your workplace – When you join the team you’ll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.” The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer. Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights. We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.