Trademark Senior Associate Attorney

If you’re reading this, you’re already thinking about leaving your job.

Your daily routine looks like this : You get to work, and you immediately feel like your job is sucking all the joy from your life.

You’re sick of the office drama, and you’re tired of feeling like your work doesn’t make a difference in the world. We get it, that’s why you should apply for our Senior Associate Attorney position at IP WORKS LAW.

Some questions for you :

• Are you mentally, or physically exhausted from working at a big-box law firm?
• Can you openly talk to your boss about concerns you have within your day-to-day life? What about your personal, professional and financial goals?
• Do you have out-of-the-box ideas that can offer alternative ways to get things done?
• Do you feel like your opinion doesn’t matter at work? Do you feel like your accomplishments and ideas aren’t appreciated?
• Do you want to work in a place where solutions are tailored to client needs, even if it means less money for the firm?
• At the end of the day, do you want your work to mean something? To help make others' dreams come true?

So, if you’re not feeling heard , if you want more control over your career, if you’re looking for a boss who wants you to succeed while making positive change in your clients' lives then we can’t wait to meet you- send us an email and apply today!

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Compensation :

$150,000+ Plus Incentive Compensation

Responsibilities :

Job Description (Tasks)

• Develop litigation and trademark strategies and communicate them to stakeholders (owner, then Legal Team, concierge, client)
• Drafting of demand letters, responses, pleadings, motions, working with an experienced paralegal
• Federal litigation trademark, copyright, patent, and related claims (unfair competition)
• Develop discovery plan, both offensive to get the evidence needed and defensive seeing and understanding what we have and what we will need to produce so discovery runs smoothly and proactively
• Depositions and Court Appearances and working with local counsel across the country
• Custom contract drafting focusing on IP-related contracts, including NDAs, License Agreements, EULAs, Master Service Agreements, TOS and Privacy Policies, vendor contracts, and employment contracts (with an emphasis on work product ownership and nondisclosure)
• Trademark analysis, drafting, prosecution
• Trademark clearance searches
• Trademark opposition and cancellation prosecution and defense
• Counseling clients in IP enforcement and litigation matters, especially Cease & Desist practice
• Trademark registration practice preparing and filing, responding to office actions, appeals
• Counseling clients in IP identification and protection matters, especially trademark
• Custom contract drafting focusing on IP-related contracts, including NDAs, License Agreements, EULAs, Master Service Agreements, TOS and Privacy Policies, vendor contracts, and employment contracts (with an emphasis on work product ownership and nondisclosure)
• Counseling clients in copyright protection matters, especially those involving software and online works

Qualifications : Must haves :

Must haves :

• Significant understanding of and experience with trademark law, from clearance through litigation. Demonstrated effectiveness through results
• Significant experience and facility with federal litigation in intellectual property cases. Demonstrated effectiveness through results
• Significant experience and facility with TTAB cases, start to finish. Demonstrated effectiveness through results
• Superior legal writing and pride in your work
• Enthusiastic about understanding client needs
• Significant experience and facility drafting, reviewing, and negotiating intellectual property license agreements, End User License Agreements, Terms of Use and Privacy Policies, Master Service Agreements, and other contracts relating to IP
• Likes litigation, fighting for people who are being wronged

Good to have :

Demonstrated understanding of and experience in copyright law highly desirable

Attributes :

• Work ethic Commitment to achieve KPIs every week
• Ability and willingness to lead strategy
• Flexibility : Ability and willingness to stay within the client’s expectations (re time and budget) even if you disagree with it;

and willingness to explain your alternative recommendation to Partner before exceeding budget so the client can make an informed decision whether or not to adopt a different recommendation

• Team player. Works collaboratively but is capable of working independently to develop and run cases
• Productivity skills Self-motivating. Proven ability to set and achieve productivity goals and accomplish priorities on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis
• Empathy the ability to listen to and understand the client’s position so you can effectively speak to their concerns
• Directness willingness and ability to communicate clearly and directly to supervisors, clients, and coworkers even in situations of conflict
• Ability and willingness to follow IP Works procedures and policies, including leveraging worksheets, templates, and support staff, to ensure quality work (meeting our standards) is delivered consistently, efficiently, and profitably

About Company

About us :

We want to be known for reshaping the way people think about law firms. We build our relationships with clients from trust, transparency, and care.

Core Values :

Accountability, Empathy, Honesty, Respect, and Service to Others