- 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
There’s a lot going on these days in the Netherlands with regard to Microsoft’s MSN trade marks. Microsoft launched summary proceedings on April 23, 2008 before the Presiding Judge of the District Court in The Hague (Mr Chr.A.J.F.M. Hensen) against Dutch based company Unicaresoft Corporation B.V., a 100% subsidiary of Head to Head Group B.V., that has registered several domain names for ‘msnlock‘ (msnlock.nl, msnlock.be, msnlock.eu, msnlock.com, msnlock.org, msnlock.net and msnlock.info) on October 30, 2007, and a figurative ‘msnlock‘ trade mark on November 30, 2007 for the Benelux. After Microsoft had notified Head to Head to cease and desist, Head to Head cancelled the trade mark registration which was notified to Microsoft. However, with regard to the domains, Head to Head refused to refrain from use, arguing that Head to Head had developed a software tool which enables parents to limit the msn use of their children with a time lock. Head to Head transferred the domains subsequently to Unicaresoft, who exploited the time lock software as Benzoy software via http://www.benzoy.nl/. Benzoy offers so called parental care software. The software is presented on the website as follows: