- Leading global online services company
- Attractive salary package
- Fun, professional and dynamic team culture
- Melbourne CBD location
- Full time permanent position
The Company
Make your mark at Melbourne IT, a world leader in the supply of domain names, related Internet services, and consulting services, Melbourne IT works with many of the world’s leading global brands such as global Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Verio. Listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, Melbourne IT has offices in the Australia, New Zealand, US and Europe.
A key division of Melbourne IT Limited is Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services (DBS), a young and vibrant high profile global leader in the provision of legal, technical and marketing service expertise required to effectively protect, manage and utilise intellectual property assets on the Internet. Through our advice, clients are able to make informed decisions on Internet brand protection - balancing the level of protection with the commercial relevance to their organisation.
The Role
As part of the global Legal team, you will report directly to the General Counsel and be providing quality and timely legal advice and documentation including commercial agreements, corporate governance and litigation management. The role primarily supports the DBS Business as well as other Melbourne IT divisions. With at least four years post admission experience this role requires a motivated individual with strong commercial focus, who enjoys working as part of a motivated and successful team.
Responsibilities include:
• Executing strategy for the legal function as set by General Counsel
• Ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, regulations, legal demands and ethical standards that affect business activities
• Negotiating, drafting and interpreting contracts, assisting management in the negotiation of commercial terms, and ensuring that contractual terms are protecting the company’s interests
• Drafting/reviewing/updating standard contracts
• Ensuring protection of the company’s intellectual property rights and maintaining registration and renewal of all business registrations
• Helping to Identify and brief management on potential and actual legal exposures, and taking appropriate proactive and remedial measures
• Resolving legal disputes/claims and initiating/defending legal proceedings as necessary
• Advising on business acquisitions as required
Requirements include:
• At least 4 years post admission experience, preferably in commercial law / IT
• Experience in negotiating global commercial agreements
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to ensure consistency of standards/procedures & promote efficiencies
• Well developed relationship building skills
• Negotiation, conflict management skills
• Outstanding commitment to customer service and internal & external customer experience
• Good planning, organisational, analytical and decision making skills
• Sound administrative and time management skills
• Project management & Problem Solving skills
• Sound business acumen
• Computer literate – broad knowledge of window/Microsoft office required
• Capability to build strong and effective working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders across different cultures
• An ability to always maintain a positive outlook and working attitude
• Confidentiality, tact and discretion when dealing with people
Desirable:
• Exposure to technology and sales environments
• Second language abilities
Join Us, Apply Now:
Email applications to Amanda Both, Recruitment Co-ordinator, at jobs@melbourneit.com, citing reference: LCMEL2305. For more information, please visit our website: www.melbourneit.com & www.melbourneitcbs.com
Ever thought about the reasons why copyright protégés have been able to extend the duration of the copyright law in many countries now to 70 years after the death of the author while patents are lagging behind? Why can’t get patent owners more than a scanty 20 year legal protection after the date of filing while their copyright counterpart enjoy the law’s protection for more than three times longer? It crossed my mind re-reading the European Court’s September 2007 judgment in Merck Genericos vs. Merck. The case was about a provision in the Portuguese patent law maximizing patent protection to 15 years rather than 20 years, as is provided for in art. 33 of the TRIPs Agreement. The issue then was whether this article has “direct effect” in national (in casu Portuguese) law and can be applied directly by a national court. The Court held that as patent law in Europe, although in many ways uniformed, is still not “community law”, national courts can choose whether or not to give direct effect to that provision.