The Role
This Paralegal role supports the legal team with contract management, compliance, legal research, and collaboration with various departments in a fast-paced entertainment environment.
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Position Overview
Tribeca Enterprises is seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Paralegal with 1–2 years of experience to support our legal team across a dynamic portfolio that includes the Tribeca Festival, Tribeca Studios, and a M ss ng P eces. This role offers hands-on exposure to entertainment, production, and event-related legal matters in a fast-paced, creative environment. We are a hybrid workplace requiring a minimum of 3 days in our NYC office. This is a salaried position at $66,300 - 75,000.
Key Responsibilities
Tribeca Enterprises is seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Paralegal with 1–2 years of experience to support our legal team across a dynamic portfolio that includes the Tribeca Festival, Tribeca Studios, and a M ss ng P eces. This role offers hands-on exposure to entertainment, production, and event-related legal matters in a fast-paced, creative environment. We are a hybrid workplace requiring a minimum of 3 days in our NYC office. This is a salaried position at $66,300 - 75,000.
Key Responsibilities
- Contract Support:
Draft, review, and manage a variety of agreements, including vendor contracts, talent agreements, production services agreements, sponsorship/brand partnership deals, location releases, and NDAs. - Production & Event Legal Support:
Assist with legal needs related to festival operations, year round live events, and M ss ng P eces commercial productions, including insurance documentation, and compliance tracking. - Corporate & Subsidiary Support:
Provide legal and administrative support across affiliated entities ensuring consistency in documentation and compliance practices. - Contract Management & Organization:
Maintain contract databases, track key terms and deadlines (e.g., renewals, deliverables), and ensure proper filing and version control. - Research & Compliance:
Conduct legal research on entertainment, media, advertising, and event regulations; assist in ensuring compliance with applicable laws and industry standards. - Rights & Clearances:
Support intellectual property processes, including basic rights clearance tracking (music, footage, talent likeness) and coordination with internal production teams. - Internal Collaboration:
Work closely with production, marketing, partnerships, and finance teams to gather information, flag risks, and facilitate contract execution. - Administrative Support:
Assist attorneys with document preparation, redlining, signature workflows, and general legal operations tasks.
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 1–2 years of relevant paralegal or legal assistant experience
- Familiarity with contract terminology and basic legal principles
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office; experience with contract management tools is a plus
- Exposure to live events, festivals, or production environments
- Experience supporting commercial productions, branded content, or advertising work
- Basic understanding of intellectual property and rights management
- Highly organized and detail-driven
- Proactive, resourceful, and solutions-oriented
- Comfortable working cross-functionally with creative and business teams
- Interest in media, entertainment, and live experiences
- Hands-on experience across festivals, productions, and brand activations
- Exposure to a wide range of entertainment and media legal matters
- Opportunity to grow within a collaborative and creative environment
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- 1-2 years of relevant paralegal or legal assistant experience
- Familiarity with contract terminology and basic legal principles
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office
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The Company
What We Do
Founded after 9/11 as a way to use the arts to restore vitality and hope to the world, Tribeca exists because stories bring people together. We champion diverse storytelling and new perspectives, empowering emerging voices to be catalysts for change in their communities and around the world. Whether it’s film, television, VR, games, music, or immersive experiences, we are proud to create the space and platform to share these myriad stories.
