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| Employment Type: | Permanent |
| Location: | Brussels, Belgium |
| Salary: | Excellent |
| Languages: | French |
Legal Counsel - Brussels
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This position is based in Brussels, Belgium.
The area: Legal
20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for tackling some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you tackle unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.
The role: Legal Counsel
You'll play a vital role in our growing team by serving as Google's first point of contact for all legal matters in Belgium. You're a qualified lawyer in Belgium with substantial professional experience in intellectual property, technology and media law, either in-house or in an established law firm. You will provide day-to-day legal advice and negotiate and draft commercial agreements (including content and technology licensing). You will also handle a variety of legal complaints and supervise litigation proceedings whenever necessary. A deep understanding of Google's business and the ability to think quickly and practically are essential attributes for this job.
Responsibilities:
* Provide legal advice to the company, including the local management teams, legal teams, marketing, business development, advertising sales and other business departments in Belgium, throughout Europe and the US.
* Respond promptly and reliably to internal and external requests for advice, specifically with regards to litigation, regulatory inquiries, contracts, commercial regulations, IP, data protection, advertising and consumer protection.
* Manage pre-contentious and contentious matters (including private litigation and governmental investigations) and coordinate our working relationship with external law firms.
* Draft, negotiate and adapt under local law a wide variety of commercial agreements, including content licenses and strategic partnership agreements.
* Handle overflow work from other countries on a case by case basis, including French law and language commercial matters.
Minimum Qualifications:
* BA/BSc/LLB degree. In lieu of degree, relevant skills or equivalent experience.
* Qualified lawyer in Belgium and professional experience with a law firm advising media and technology companies and/or in-house experience in this industry.
* Written and oral fluency in French and English (experience drafting contracts in French and English).
* Background in media, communications, intellectual property and contract law, as well as litigation experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
* Graduate degree (LL.M or equivalent) from an English or North American law school.
* Strong negotiation and interpersonal skills and excellent business judgement.
* Hard working, well organised and able to manage numerous projects simultaneously under deadline pressure.
* Deep knowledge of online technologies and industry.
* Interest and understanding of the local political environment and strong interest in policy work.
* Flexibility (including some travel), willingness to work on a broad variety of legal matters, and a sense of humour!
Apply now
Apply now
This position is based in Brussels, Belgium.
The area: Legal
20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for tackling some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you tackle unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.
The role: Legal Counsel
You'll play a vital role in our growing team by serving as Google's first point of contact for all legal matters in Belgium. You're a qualified lawyer in Belgium with substantial professional experience in intellectual property, technology and media law, either in-house or in an established law firm. You will provide day-to-day legal advice and negotiate and draft commercial agreements (including content and technology licensing). You will also handle a variety of legal complaints and supervise litigation proceedings whenever necessary. A deep understanding of Google's business and the ability to think quickly and practically are essential attributes for this job.
Responsibilities:
* Provide legal advice to the company, including the local management teams, legal teams, marketing, business development, advertising sales and other business departments in Belgium, throughout Europe and the US.
* Respond promptly and reliably to internal and external requests for advice, specifically with regards to litigation, regulatory inquiries, contracts, commercial regulations, IP, data protection, advertising and consumer protection.
* Manage pre-contentious and contentious matters (including private litigation and governmental investigations) and coordinate our working relationship with external law firms.
* Draft, negotiate and adapt under local law a wide variety of commercial agreements, including content licenses and strategic partnership agreements.
* Handle overflow work from other countries on a case by case basis, including French law and language commercial matters.
Minimum Qualifications:
* BA/BSc/LLB degree. In lieu of degree, relevant skills or equivalent experience.
* Qualified lawyer in Belgium and professional experience with a law firm advising media and technology companies and/or in-house experience in this industry.
* Written and oral fluency in French and English (experience drafting contracts in French and English).
* Background in media, communications, intellectual property and contract law, as well as litigation experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
* Graduate degree (LL.M or equivalent) from an English or North American law school.
* Strong negotiation and interpersonal skills and excellent business judgement.
* Hard working, well organised and able to manage numerous projects simultaneously under deadline pressure.
* Deep knowledge of online technologies and industry.
* Interest and understanding of the local political environment and strong interest in policy work.
* Flexibility (including some travel), willingness to work on a broad variety of legal matters, and a sense of humour!
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