About us:
Our team is looking for an experienced, motivated, detail oriented and enthusiastic intellectual property attorney! Our founder is currently looking to replace her role in legal production with someone that is just as driven and detail oriented as she is! This position will be starting part-time and potentially moving into a full-time position.
We are an entrepreneurial intellectual property firm that is on track for aggressive growth, and we need an experienced associate attorney to join our team and work directly with the owner and support staff to support the team and help our clients.
We want to be known for reshaping the way people think about law firms. We build our relationships with our clients from trust, transparency, and care. We are growing fast, and we need an experienced associate attorney who can hit the ground running.
Here at IP Works, we handle client needs for trademarks, patents, copyrights, enforcement and litigation matters.
Core Values:
· Accountability
· Empathy
· Honesty
· Respect
· Service to Others
Our Approach:
· Transparency: Full transparency surrounding our work, costs and expectations
· Client-Centered: Assisting clients with their goals in light of what is best for them, not what is best for us
· Plain English: Helping clients understand their IP journey without legalese- so they feel confident and comfortable moving forward
· Empathy: We recognize behind every business is a person with a life and hopes and dreams. Empathetic and honest communications with client- our goal is to achieve a trusting relationship with our clients, so they know we are aligned with their goals and don’t feel like “just another paycheck”
Questions to ask yourself:
· Do you pride yourself in taking the extra time to think through client needs and goals?
· Are you motivated by helping your clients succeed?
· Do you want to join a team who takes pride in their work, communications, and genuinely cares about your career and personal success?
EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:
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 client can make an informed decision whether or not to adopt a different recommendation.
· Team player. Works collaboratively but 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 – ability to listen to and understand 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.
JOB DESCRIPTION (TASKS)
· Active Participation in legal team meetings.
· Develop litigation, patent and trademark strategies and communicate them to stakeholders (owner, then Legal Team, concierge, client)
· Drafting of demand letters, responses, pleadings, motions, working with experienced paralegal
· 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
· 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 (not often) 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)
· Counseling clients in copyright protection matters, especially those involving software and online works
Candidate, in your response, please include:
· A sample of writing some from a project that you completed (PDF format)
· Your cover letter and resume (PDF format)
· (Optional) One paragraph on one of our core values that is important to you
· We require all communications and resumes be sent through email to ccavella@ipworkslaw.com with nwasson@ipworkslaw.com CC’d to the email
· Do not send your resume through this website
If you are an IP attorney as thorough as our founder, then we know you read all the way through these instructions and you won't mind letting us know by starting the subject line of your email reply with your last name, position you are applying for, and the animal you think best describes you! (For example: SMITH Associate Attorney- Tiger)
We look forward to reviewing your application!
APPLICATIONS RECEIVED THROUGH THIS SYSTEM AND THAT DO NOT FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Expected hours: No less than 20 per week
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Paid time off
Location:
Work Location: Remote