Job Description
At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.
This role will be based in San Francisco Bay Area.
The LinkedIn Legal & Public Policy Team is made up of legal and policy professionals with diverse backgrounds and skill sets who have set an extremely high bar for providing legal and policy solutions. If you like smart, witty and motivated people, you will fit in well with the Legal & Public Policy Team.
As Enforcement Counsel you will be a key member of LinkedIn’s Litigation, Competition & Enforcement Team, and you’ll contribute to our growing legal enforcement efforts. You’ll directly handle cease-and-desist correspondence and negotiation with platform abusers to achieve compliance with our TOS. You will also handle other dispute resolution, directly manage copyright enforcement, and you’ll provide advice and counseling related to other LinkedIn business and platform abuse issues. You will work in a fast-paced, well-rounded, collaborative and motivated team Legal Team that values results, humor and team work.
Responsibilities:
- Draft cease-and-desist letters relating to abuse on LinkedIn’s platform, including data scraping, spam, copyright violations, and User Agreement violations.
Partner with our Trust & Safety Team to investigate and take action against bad actors who seek to abuse LinkedIn’s members and platform and violate its User Agreement.
Directly engage in and oversee IP protection work such as copyright takedown requests to other platforms.
Help protect member trust and LinkedIn’s intellectual property rights through product counseling regarding measures against data scraping and copyright infringement.
Drive good business results by counseling cross functional partners on issues related to User Agreement violations like scraping, fake engagement, automation and other forms of abuse.
Support affirmative enforcement litigation, particularly in collecting evidence and supporting discovery.
Collaborate with the team to document scalable processes and guidelines in order to centrally track and routinize legal enforcement work.
Play an active role in fulfilling LinkedIn’s mission of connecting the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful by being an integral member of our fast-paced, well-rounded, collaborative and FUN Legal & Public Policy Team.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
J.D. and admission to the California bar required.
3+ years of IP litigation, IP enforcement, or related litigation experience at a law firm and/or in-house.
Litigation and/or pre-litigation enforcement experience with at least some of the following: Terms of Service violations, DMCA, CFAA, California Penal Code Section 502 or analogues like “freeriding”, misappropriation, or trespass claims.
Preferred Qualifications:
Cease-and-desist correspondence and resolution negotiation experience strongly preferred.
Relevant in-house experience with a leading global technology company is preferred as is an interest in and facility with highly technical subjects.
You have high standards, integrity, good judgment and strong analytical skills.
You are organized and can juggle high level problem solving alongside getting into the weeds on technical or logistics issues.
You identify the business objective and then accomplish it.
You value and exhibit teamwork.
You partner with and manage outside counsel effectively.
Suggested Skills:
- IP Litigation
- Cease and Desist Correspondence
- Cross-Functional Partnership
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $117,000 to $191,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.
