The office of legal affairs provides legal counsel to the Association, governance committees and national office staff. The team advises on contract negation, strategy, policy drafting, rule-making questions and other requests for legal advice. The office also manages outside counsel to represent the Association and directs legal strategy.  

The legal affairs intern will assist in providing overall service offerings covering a broad range of subject matter, including, contracts, subpoenas, discovery, regulatory support, intellectual property enforcement and privacy.

The introduction of this new position will provide interns who are interested in this department the opportunity to provide support in various regulatory matters, to assist with investigations of intellectual property infringements and more.

Job Description: Legal Affairs

General position summary:

The legal affairs intern will assist in providing overall service offerings covering a broad range of subject matters, including contracts, subpoenas, litigation support, discovery, regulatory support, IP enforcement, data privacy and more. This is a truly versatile role and ensures additional bandwidth and increased departmental depth/breadth necessary for gap areas. This role requires flexibility, willingness to learn and lead, and enthusiasm for being a team player.

Desired knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Strong critical thinking and analytical skills.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• High level of attention to detail throughout all work products.
• High level of astuteness.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Ability to effectively collaborate with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to understand and use diplomacy.
• Ability to influence, inform and engage to encourage collaboration.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Strong emotional intelligence.
• Interest in sports.

Essential duties:

**All legal work assignments will be under the supervision of the general counsel or associate general counsel.

• Assist with providing support for various regulatory matters.
• Assist with various contractual and procurement matters, including contract drafting and review, drafting and responding to subpoenas and other trademark activity.
• Assist with various internal (national office) matters related to policy, human resources and finance, such as policy review, data analytics, information gathering and issue spotting from an enterprise risk perspective.
• Assist with providing coverage for sport-specific matters and governance groups, including drafting waivers/releases and reviewing/revising sport manuals and operations guides.
• Draft letters, memoranda and other correspondence in response to general inquiries received.
• Research issues of law and prepare memoranda for the office of the general counsel.
• Conduct investigation of intellectual property infringements.
  • Prepare cease-and-desist correspondence when appropriate.
  • Organize infringement activity and NCAA response.
  • Conduct follow-up.
• Assist in process planning, development and implementation.
• Conduct special projects, such as:
  • Assisting with the development and implementation of national office legal compliance education programming.
  • Assisting with the development and delivery of the legal education programming for membership at the NCAA Convention.
  • Assisting with the development and execution of the yearly legal summit and/or compliance education programming for outside counsel.
  • Other duties as assigned.

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