Internship: 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.

Essential duties:

– All legal work assignments will be under the supervision of the senior counsel of legal affairs.

• 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 a enterprise risk perspective.
• Assist with providing coverage for sport-specific matters and governance groups,  including drafting waivers/releases, 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.

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 ncaa.org/internship 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.

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.

For more information and to apply: https://www.ncaa.org/what-we-do/programs/postgraduate-internships/legal-affairs/