Legal Counsel

JOB TITLE:                Legal Counsel

COMPANY:                Interpublic Limited

REPORTING TO:       VP, Regional Counsel EMEA APAC

DEPARTMENT:         Legal (Specialised Communications & Experiential agencies reporting segment)

POSITION SUMMARY:

We are recruiting an in-house Counsel to join our team at IPG, working with its public relations and experiential agency groups: The Weber Shandwick Collective (TWSC), GOLIN, Octagon & Jack Morton.

We are looking for a lawyer who is focused on and wants to develop their career further in the marketing communications space. You will be a part of a team collectively providing expert, accurate and consistent guidance and insight right across the reporting segment’s EMEA and APAC agency operations. However, you will initially focus on developing the expertise required to provide legal and business affairs advice and support to the public relations agencies: TWSC and/or GOLIN in the UK.

Interpublic Group (www.interpublic.com) is a global provider of marketing solutions. With approximately 56,000 employees in all major world markets, our companies specialise in advertising, digital marketing, communications planning, media, public relations, and specialty marketing.

The Weber Shandwick Collective (www.webershandwick.com) is the earned-first strategic communications and consulting network built for the convergence of society, media, policy and technology. Backed by a Collective of specialist brands built for the era of earned, TWSC helps brands earn value by contributing value. As the first communications firm with its own proprietary AI tech stack, we’re engineered to earn value in an AI-driven world. In addition to Weber Shandwick, TWSC brands include Cappuccino, Current Global, dna, Flipside, KRC Research, Powell Tate, Resolute Digital, That Lot and United Minds. Anchor agency, Weber Shandwick, is the earned-first global communications agency. The agency is led by world-class strategic and creative thinkers and activators and has won some of the most prestigious awards in the industry.

Golin (www.golin.com) is a global public relations agency that helps companies create change that matters. Together, we discover powerful human truths that bind us, create with bravery, and collaborate inclusively and obsessively. Golin’s 1700 global employees operate across 50+ offices worldwide allowing us to provide our clients with comprehensive solutions for multi-market, regional, and global communications programs.

Octagon (www.octagon.com) A leading global agency in sports, entertainment and culture. A group of creative thinkers and energetic doers harnessing that playmaker spirit to generate fame that endures. We’re a mix of savvy veterans and bold upstarts, at it for three decades. A passionate team of 1,000+ around the world, relentlessly committed to helping you force fate and push forward to make your next right move.

Jack Morton (www.jackmorton.com) Adweek’s 2023 Experiential Marketing Agency of the Year, uses the power of brand experience to excite and captivate audiences. Through imagination and innovation, our experiences evoke emotions that linger, building your brand’s equity with customers and turning your business into an Experience Brand. We’re on a mission each and every day to be extraordinary. Because no one sets out to be average. No one aspires to be ordinary. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Essential duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Working alongside colleagues from across our diverse business to structure, draft and negotiate client contracts and scopes of service.
• Delivering and supervising others on talent/influencer, production, technology and other supplier agreements.
• Working on new business opportunities, reviewing confidentiality agreements and proposed contract terms.
• Raising, advising and seeking compliance with internal and external legal and regulatory requirements e.g. ABC, data privacy, IPG SP&P.
• Assisting agency colleagues with issue management and client/vendor communications in the business affairs as well as legal space.
• Helping to analyse agency creative ideas to ensure compliance with legal requirements and providing solution led guidance on their subsequent delivery.
• Counselling agency management and supporting them in the formulation, preparation and implementation of improved business affairs and risk-management processes in agencies.
• Training on legal and business affairs issues.
• Collaborating intra-IPG and introducing and supporting agency staff when working with other IPG support services Finance, Risk, Insurance, Treasury, Travel etc.
• Assisting with the management of trademark and domain name portfolios across the regions.
• Assisting on data protection, litigation, property and other general legal matters as they arise.
• Liaising with external counsel as required.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 4+ years Post Qualification Experience
• Can demonstrate a thorough knowledge of commercial contracts and IP law
• Prior experience in the marketing, advertising and/or media sectors on issues such as marketing communications, talent/influencer engagement, digital/social media, content production, event staging or digital products and services preferred
• An interest in earned media: public relations and media relations/crisis comms consultancy and related analytics and creativity
• Fluency in one or more European language in addition to English would be advantageous
• Motivated, self-starter who can work independently and make decisions

SUCCESS FACTORS

• Excellent communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, demonstrate flexibility and proactively contribute to the organisation.

We, Interpublic Group (IPG), are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on any unlawful basis including race, religion, color, national origin, disability, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.