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LEGAL INTERN – RICHEMONT, NEW YORK
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Richemont Americas, a subsidiary of the Richemont international luxury goods group, is looking for a legal intern to join our legal team in New York for a one year placement. Richemont owns some of the world’s leading luxury goods Maisons, with particular strengths in jewelry, fine watches and premium accessories. Each Maison represents a proud tradition of style, quality and craftsmanship, and Richemont seeks to preserve the heritage and identity of each of its Maisons. At the same time, we are committed to innovation and designing new products which are in keeping with our Maisons’ values, through a process of continuous creativity.
The Position and You
As the Legal Intern, you will provide support to the Richemont Americas legal team, primarily in the areas of contract drafting and review, customer dispute management and retail and legal operations management. This is a fast-paced job for a dynamic, proactive individual who can juggle multiple projects, prioritize and re-prioritize in a fluid environment, and who demonstrates excellent judgment in knowing when to be flexible and when to draw a hard line or escalate an issue. At the same time, you should share our team’s commitment to treating everyone in the Richemont family with kindness and respect. To thrive you must be curious about all facets of our business and build relationships across the company based on trust and empathy.
As a small regional legal department, our team relishes in wearing many legal hats in support of the company. While you will primarily provide day-to-day support on transactional and contract legal matters, you should be comfortable providing general support and recommendations on legal matters beyond contract law. If you have other relevant experience you may contribute to our legal department, let us know. There is room here for you to grow and explore different areas of our legal team.
This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position and may include other duties as assigned, but areas of focus will be as follows:
Responsibilities
- Support attorneys with drafting, reviewing and negotiating a wide variety of U.S. and Canadian commercial agreements, including digital and technology agreements, celebrity endorsement agreements and SAG-AFTRA related matters, retail-related, event and marketing agreements, consulting agreements, sponsorship agreements, releases, purchase order terms and conditions and other third-party vendor agreements
- Maintain, update and periodically review contract templates with guidance from within the legal team. Support contract lifecycle management tools and processes
- Support Assistant Manager, Legal Operations, with development, updating and management of various legal tools and systems, including online legal team portal
- Proactively partner with internal clients and business teams to help them understand business deals, to identify and mitigate key risks and to provide quick, concise, and commercially-focused legal advice
- Provide support for customer service, litigation and regulatory matters that pertain to contract and commercial disputes
- Assist in the development of various training materials and sessions for business teams
Requirements
- Enrolled as a second-year student in J.D. program in a leading recognized law school; strong academic credentials
- Some transactional legal experience gained through previous internship roles of increasing visibility and responsibility preferred
- Experience in retail, luxury or consumer products industries a plus
- Ability to think like a business person, to integrate legal and business issues and to partner with business leaders
- Must be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously, and organize workload to meet organizational timelines in a fast paced, very high-growth environment
- Collaborative, proactive nature with strong interpersonal skills and good sense of humor
- Strong team working and project management skills, combined with ability to work as part of a cross functional team in a complex matrix environment
- With flexible work policies, must be able to regularly work in-person in New York City corporate offices
Expected Salary Range: $20/hr
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