Description:
A Typical DayThe First Vice President Assistant General Counsel will provide extensive support related to intellectual property law to the company's information technology, mortgage operations, secondary marketing, capital markets, correspondent lending, consumer direct, broker direct, risk, and compliance functions. In this role, the attorney will have responsibility for addressing and/or managing all of the intellectual property needs of the business.
The First VP Assistant General Counsel will:
- Advise clients on legal rights and actions involving copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets
- Provide advice regarding software development to ensure protection of the company's intellectual property and to avoid infringement of third-party intellectual property rights, including providing appropriate guardrails for any technology development
- Review and create important legal documents relating to intellectual property
- Draft, negotiate, interpret and advise clients on IP related agreements, such as non-disclosure agreements and software and other license agreements
- Negotiate and/or draft new technology-related contracts or software licensing agreements with the company's vendors or service providers
- Ensure all company trademarks and service marks are protected and, as applicable, filed or renewed
- Conduct research and interviews to help with the company's court cases or legal proceedings
- Evaluate inventions to determine patentability and drafting, filing and prosecuting patent applications before the USPTO, with assistance from outside counsel when needed
- Perform other related duties as required and assigned
- Demonstrate behaviors which are aligned with the organization's desired culture and values
- College degree and J.D., from an accredited law school, along with admittance to the applicable state Bar
- 7+ years experience with a law firm or as in-house counsel with relevant experience in the areas of intellectual property law in both transactional and litigation areas
- Mortgage experience and/or financial services background strongly preferred
- Solid analytical and drafting skills
