Description:
Rutan & Tucker is looking to add a 4–6-year associate attorney to its intellectual property practice.In This Role, the Successful Candidate's Responsibilities Will Include:
- Working directly with a wide variety of domestic and international clients in developing and managing their IP portfolio, including a significant amount of global trademark prosecution
- Providing day-to-day guidance on the IP aspects of client businesses such as counseling during the product-development process and providing advertising and packaging clearance
- Drafting IP-related business agreements and supporting the firm's corporate department in relation to business transactions that implicate various aspects of intellectual property
- Assist in the enforcement of intellectual property rights online including working with online retail platforms, social media platforms to protect the client's rights, as well as handling formal domain-name dispute proceedings
Required Qualifications/Skills:
- Minimum 4-6 years of trademark prosecution and IP transaction experience
- Significant experience handling trademark clearance, prosecution, counseling, and enforcement for domestic and international trademark portfolios with a general understanding of jurisdictional differences worldwide.
- Demonstrated experience conducting comprehensive global and domestic trademark clearance searches and reviewing and advising on comprehensive searches
- Strong contract drafting skills with experience negotiating and drafting IP-related business agreements including licenses, co-existence agreements, and right of publicity/NIL/influencer agreements, manufacturing and distribution agreements, as well as the IP-related terms of larger business transaction agreements
- Experience handling online IP enforcement and brand protection proceedings including takedowns on social media and online retail platforms, DMCA notices, and domain name disputes, including UDRPs.
- Performing IP due diligence in corporate transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, and financing events
- Product and advertising review and clearance
- Experience communicating with a diverse clientele, from laypeople to highly experienced legal professionals, tailoring communications to each client's specific needs and level of understanding
- Experience communicating with clients and legal professionals around the world
- Working knowledge of copyright law (prosecution experience is helpful)
- Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school
- Active membership and good standing in at least one State Bar
- Strong research, analytical, grammar, and writing skills
- Excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills
- Ability to independently manage multiple tasks and prioritize under tight time constraints
The successful applicant will have the opportunity to work in a collaborative, autonomous and fast-paced environment with our highly experienced team of intellectual property attorneys and paraprofessionals, representing a diverse group of reputable and well-established clients, including local, national, and international companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. This position will provide an excellent opportunity for responsibility, learning and career growth, and consideration for flexible hybrid work location arrangements. Our headquarters at The Boardwalk in Irvine, CA, offers state-of-the-art workplace design and technology, and is in one of the greatest places in the world to live and work – just minutes from some of Southern California's best beach communities and shopping and a short drive from both desert and local mountain resort communities.
Position open to part-time*
Salary Range: $220k-$250k
If you have the necessary qualifications and the desire to advance your career in an exciting and sophisticated practice, please contact Samantha Patton at spatton@rutan.com.
Rutan & Tucker, LLP is an equal opportunity employer.
