Role: Business Affairs Corporate Paralegal

Reporting: VP of Business Development and Legal Affairs 

Salary: $47,500-$90,000 DOE 

Start date: November

Full-Time; Expected to work at least 40 hours a week.

Create Music Group’s Business Affairs team is expanding! We are looking for a full-time, corporate

paralegal to join and assist the Business Affairs team with administration, agreement drafting, due

diligence, terminations, takedowns and conflicts, clearances, coordination between departments, and

organization of legal information. Must be a self-learner and self-starter. Law firm experience is

preferred. Training in coding and/or music is advantageous, but not required. Some of the various

required tasks are listed below.

• Working closely with our EDM clients
• Drafting simple forms and letters, and populating documents in the Customer Relationship
• Management System (“CRM”)
• Redlining and summarizing comments
• Managing the material terms in client accounts
• Closing deals in the CRM and creating abstracts upon execution
• Sending and saving documents
• Organizing deal terms, client information, and documents
• Requesting contracting information from artists, managers, and legal teams
• Coordinating final deal points with A&Rs
• Creating and reviewing redlines
• Tracking projects in various departments, and communicating with various teams across the
• company
• Tracking deal negotiations
• Managing the deal flow and following up on actionable items as needed
• Coordinating execution of agreements, including sending documents via DocuSign
• Managing projects within the Business Affairs team
• Helping maintain and update Business Affairs deal templates including forms in the CRM
• Helping maintain Business Affairs tools in the CRM
• Scheduling meetings
• Reviewing and Tracking termination and takedown requests

Knowledge and Skills:

• Organized and detail oriented
• Takes ownership
• Strong and clear communication skills 
• Solution-based
• Has an interest in the legal field and eager to learn 
• Self-learner
• Creative and innovative
• Can carry a high volume of projects
• Basic principles, concepts and methodology of legal corporate work
• Has a working knowledge of State Bar Law, Rules of Conduct and procedures as they apply to
• the performance of major duties and responsibilities of the position
• Knowledge of attorney client relationships applicable to the performance of major duties and
• responsibilities of the position
• Principles of legal writing
• Problem identification, analysis and evaluation
• Principles of effective writing and verbal presentation
• Business math for completing non-technical calculations such as addition, subtraction,
• multiplication and division
• Computerized information and database record keeping systems
• Computer information systems, including personal computer applications, work processing and
• spreadsheets

Essential Elements / Ability to:

• Possess visual capability and digital dexterity to operate a computer and other standard office equipment
• Make fine visual distinctions upon proofreading written documents and viewing information on a computer screen
• Communicate clearly and effectively in person and in writing
• Communicate by telephone
• Speak clearly and articulate messages

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree, or equivalent work experience in a field that develops the skills required for the
• functions and responsibilities of the position
• Completion of an approved paralegal program
• Minimum two (2) years’ experience as a paralegal
• Successful completion of the State Bar validated standard tests for the position
• Accomplished computer keyboarding skills
• Experience with Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF (e.g., redlining, redacting, and formatting)