Corporate Paralegal, Business Affairs
ALIEN8 RECORDS is an Canada/Nashville - based digital music company that provides artists and labels with distribution, rights management, and creative services. We monetize over 12 billion monthly music streams and have collected over $150 Million in previously unclaimed revenue for artists and labels. Clients include Future,Playboi Carti, JLo, City Girls, Marshmello, Don Diablo, Trippie Redd, Migos, and more.
Flighthouse, a division of ALIEN8 RECORDS, is the largest music tastemaker on TikTok with 23M followers & growing. We work directly with the internet’s most popular influencers, labels, artists and brands to develop and execute unique entertainment content and campaigns catered to Generation Z.
We were named Inc.'s #2 fastest growing company in 2020. We welcome you to join us in our effort to help artists be in control!
SUMMARY:
ALIEN8 RECORDS’s Business Affairs team is expanding! We are looking for a full-time, corporate paralegal to join and assist the Business Affairs team with administration, agreement drafting, due diligence, terminations, takedowns and conflicts, clearances, coordination between departments, and organization of legal information. Must be a self-learner and self-starter. Law firm experience is preferred. Training in coding and/or music is advantageous, but not required.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Working closely with our EDM clients
- Drafting simple forms and letters, and populating documents in the Customer Relationship
- Management System (“CRM”)
- Redlining and summarizing comments
- Managing the material terms in client accounts
- Closing deals in the CRM and creating abstracts upon execution
- Sending and saving documents
- Organizing deal terms, client information, and documents
- Requesting contracting information from artists, managers, and legal teams
- Coordinating final deal points with A&Rs
- Creating and reviewing redlines
- Tracking projects in various departments, and communicating with various teams across the company
- Tracking deal negotiations
- Managing the deal flow and following up on actionable items as needed
- Coordinating execution of agreements, including sending documents via DocuSign
- Managing projects within the Business Affairs team
- Helping maintain and update Business Affairs deal templates including forms in the CRM
- Helping maintain Business Affairs tools in the CRM
- Scheduling meetings
- Reviewing and Tracking termination and takedown requests
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor degree, or equivalent work experience in a field that develops the skills required for the
- functions and responsibilities of the position
- Completion of an approved paralegal program
- Minimum two (2) years’ experience as a paralegal
- Successful completion of the State Bar validated standard tests for the position
- Accomplished computer keyboarding skills
- Experience with Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF (e.g., redlining, redacting, and formatting)
PREFERRED:
- Organized and detail oriented
- Takes ownership
- Strong and clear communication skills
- Solution-based
- Has an interest in the legal field and eager to learn
- Self-learner
- Creative and innovative
- Can carry a high volume of projects
- Basic principles, concepts and methodology of legal corporate work
- Has a working knowledge of State Bar Law, Rules of Conduct and procedures as they apply to
- the performance of major duties and responsibilities of the position
- Knowledge of attorney client relationships applicable to the performance of major duties and responsibilities of the position
- Principles of legal writing
- Problem identification, analysis and evaluation
- Principles of effective writing and verbal presentation
- Business math for completing non-technical calculations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
- Computerized information and database record keeping systems
- Computer information systems, including personal computer applications, work processing and spreadsheets
- Possess visual capability and digital dexterity to operate a computer and other standard office equipment
- Make fine visual distinctions upon proofreading written documents and viewing information on a computer screen
- Communicate clearly and effectively in person and in writing
- Communicate by telephone
- Speak clearly and articulate messages
PAY SCALE:
- $47,500 - $90,000/annually