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About the Role
WME Group seeks a talented and highly motivated lawyer to join the team in it’s Sydney office as Associate Counsel, Legal & Business Affairs, supporting WME Fashion globally and IMG Talent locally. The successful candidate will join a collaborative and results-driven in-house team, working across a broad range of stakeholders, including high-profile talent, models, athletes and media personalities. This opportunity is ideally suited to a candidate who is admitted to practice in Australia with 0-2 years experience, seeking to develop more significant experience in drafting and reviewing commercial agreements, with exposure to diverse stakeholders across the entertainment and fashion industries.
Responsibilities
- High-volume drafting, reviewing, and negotiating of agreements (including talent representation, endorsements, commercial deals, and image-rights contracts), and stakeholder management throughout the full agreement lifecycle.
- Providing clear, actionable guidance on legal and regulatory matters (e.g. entertainment and media law, union compliance, working with children), and ensuring compliance with policies and processes.
- Work closely with internal teams, and external parties while managing an independent workload and building strong internal client relationships.
- Overseeing contract administration systems, document management, e-signatures, and improving internal legal processes.
- Assisting with disputes, corporate governance, legal research, and training initiatives across the business.
Requirements
- 0–2 years’ experience
- Law degree and admission as a lawyer in an Australian jurisdiction.
- Strong drafting, reviewing, and negotiating of agreements.
- Solid analytical and organisational abilities.
- Ability to prioritise, multitask, meet deadlines, and maintain high-quality, detail-oriented work under pressure.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Able to explain complex legal concepts clearly to non-legal audiences.
- Strong stakeholder engagement.
- Collaborative team player who can also work autonomously.
- Proactive, self-motivated, adaptable, and solutions-focused with a positive attitude.
- Good IT skills.
- Interest in the fashion industry, with familiarity with relevant regulations (e.g. Entertainment Industry Act, Australian Consumer Law, AANA Code of Ethics) desirable.
Skills
- Drafting agreements
- Reviewing agreements
- Negotiating agreements
- Stakeholder management
- Legal guidance
- Regulatory compliance
- Contract administration
- Document management
- E-signatures
- Dispute resolution
- Corporate governance
- Legal research
- Training
- Analytical abilities
- Organisational abilities
- Prioritization
- Multitasking
- Meeting deadlines
- Detail-oriented work
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Stakeholder engagement
- IT skills
- Fashion industry knowledge
- Entertainment Industry Act familiarity
- Australian Consumer Law familiarity
- AANA Code of Ethics familiarity
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 0-2 years
Education Level
- Law degree
- Admission as a lawyer in an Australian jurisdiction
About the Company
- WME Group supports WME Fashion globally (which includes IMG Models, Art Commerce and The Wall Group) and IMG Talent locally.