Senior Associate - Copyright Transactions

Advocates Legal Recruiting; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 390,000; Full time

Job summary

Advocates Legal Recruiting's client, a top AmLaw 100 firm, seeks a Senior Associate to join its copyright transactions team in San Francisco. You will draft complex agreements, advise on licensing strategy, and support DMCA/compliance initiatives across digital platforms.

Ideal candidates have 6+ years handling copyright/IP licensing and entertainment transactions, with strong negotiation skills and a track record of delivering under tight deadlines. Local California practice is preferred.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate commercial agreements with a heavy emphasis on copyright and content rights.
• Advise on business-critical content licenses and licensing strategy across digital products and platforms.
• Support counseling work tied to DMCA and platform/compliance strategy with litigators and regulatory lawyers when issues escalate.
• 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.

Skills

Commercial contracts

Copyright/IP licensing

Tech transactions

Entertainment deals

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Job description

Senior Associate - Copyright Transactions

San Francisco, United States | Posted on 07/22/2026

SENIOR ASSOCIATE: COPYRIGHT TRANSACTIONS (6+ YEARS)

TECH + CONTENT | LA, SAN FRAN, SILICON VALLEY, DC, NYC

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.

Role summary

• 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 escalate.
  
• 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.
  

Candidate profile

• 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.
  

Why this role

• 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 firmwide infrastructure that is actually built out, not just stated.
  

Locations

Comp

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

Interested

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