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We're looking for... creative but practical thinkers to build our legal department and tackle a wide range of domestic and international issues.

Position available in Mountain View, CA.

Google's legal team is growing again! Google is looking for an experienced attorney to focus on commercial and sales transactions. The Counsel's primary responsibilities will include negotiating, drafting, and analyzing a wide variety of licensing, sales, strategic alliance, and development agreements. Work independently but collaboratively in a collegial team environment within a fast-paced legal department.

Responsibilities:

• Respond promptly to legal requests from business development/licensing, advertising sales, marketing, and other business clients.
• Advise sales professionals and management, as well as finance and other company departments on legal issues and risks, complex deal structures, approval processes, company policies and procedures, intellectual property, and negotiation strategy.
• Negotiate agreements that comply with company policies and risk tolerance.
• Advise senior management on recommend courses of action and legal risks.
• Summarize and communicate legal concepts for use by business people.
• Daily review, draft and negotiate advertising services agreements, sales contracts, licenses/intellectual property agreements and other agreements. Daily in-house client interaction.
• Support the continuous improvement of standard form agreements and legal processes.
• Assist in development of and compliance with privacy principles.
• Special projects as requested.

Requirements:

• JD from top law school, excellent academic credentials.
• In-depth experience in contract law, with broad transactional background in technology related agreements.
• Experience advising clients on and structuring complex commercial transactions, including sales and services contracts.
• Significant experience in business development and intellectual property matters.
• Extensive background in drafting and negotiating services agreements, sales contracts, licenses/intellectual property and other agreements.
• Excellent business judgment, strategic thinking.
• Hard working, well organized and able to manage numerous projects simultaneously under deadline pressure. Excellent interpersonal skills, dynamic and highly team-oriented.
• Flexibility and willingness to work on a broad variety of legal matters.
• Superior English language writing and oral communication skills.
• Experience in Internet, high technology, and advertising agreements preferred.
• Sense of humor and commitment to professionalism and collegiality are required.
• California Bar.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to jobs@google.com. Important: The subject field of your email must include Corporate Counsel, Commercial - Mountain View.

Position available in Mountain View, CA.

Google’s legal team is growing again! Google is looking for an experienced attorney to focus on corporate securities matters and mergers and acquisitions. We are looking for attorneys who can work independently but collaboratively in a collegial team environment within a fast-paced legal department. Candidates should be willing and able to work on a variety of corporate securities law projects as well as have the entrepreneurial spirit and experience to contribute to the management and organization of the department.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in preparing and filing periodic and annual reports and other securities law filings.
• Work extensively with the corporate development group to negotiate and close acquisitions for Google.
• Provide corporate and securities law education and advice across various departments within Google, including finance, marketing, product management, operations and engineering.
• Special projects as requested.

• JD from top law school, excellent academic credentials.
• 4-7+ years of law firm experience with in-depth practice of corporate securities law.
• In-house counsel experience preferred but not required.
• Experience successfully managing cross-functional teams on legal and/or non-legal related projects.
• Demonstration of successful non-legal department client management skills.
• Excellent business judgment, strategic thinking.
• Hard working, well organized and able to manage numerous projects simultaneously under deadline pressure. Excellent interpersonal skills, dynamic and highly team-oriented.
• Flexibility and willingness to work on a broad variety of legal matters.
• Superior English language writing and oral communication skills.
• Sense of humor and commitment to professionalism and collegiality are required.
• California Bar.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to jobs@google.com. Important: The subject field of your email must include Corporate Counsel - Securities - Mountain View.

Position available in Mountain View, CA.

Google's legal team is looking for an experienced attorney to focus on and manage data center, bandwidth and other network infrastructure transactions. The ideal candidate will have significant previous experience negotiating agreements in these areas.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Engineering and Operations to negotiate and finalize legal agreements in all technical areas related to network and data center infrastructure.
• Assume primary responsibility for all legal issues related to these contracts, including risk management.
• Advise senior management on recommended courses of action.
• Daily review, draft and negotiate co-location, fiber, bandwidth, services, vendor and similar agreements.
• Support the continuous improvement of standard form agreements and legal processes.
• Handle special projects as requested.

Requirements:

• JD from top law school, excellent academic credentials.
• In-depth experience in network and data center infrastructure transactions; experience with leases and real estate a plus.
• Familiarity with regulatory and bankruptcy law.
• Experience advising clients on and structuring complex commercial transactions, including co-location, fiber, bandwidth, services, vendor and similar agreements.
• Excellent business judgment, strategic thinking.
• Hard working, well organized and able to manage numerous projects simultaneously under deadline pressure. Excellent interpersonal skills, dynamic and highly team-oriented.
• Flexibility and willingness to work on a broad variety of legal matters.
• Superior English language writing and oral communication skills.
• Experience working with Internet or telecommunications companies preferred.
• Sense of humor and commitment to professionalism and collegiality are required.
• California Bar.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to jobs@google.com. Important: The subject field of your email must include Corporate Counsel, Technical Operations - Mountain View.

Position available in Hamburg, Germany.

Google is looking to further grow its European legal team. Google is searching for a German qualified lawyer with at least 3 years post qualification experience. Primary responsibility will be working with Google's U.S. policy and compliance team, its European legal team and the European advertising policy teams to maintain and evolve Google's internal compliance policies throughout Europe. You will have experience of consumer protection, content regulation and data protection/privacy. You will assist in developing and implementing policies for complying with content and consumer protection regulations worldwide as well as in the development and maintenance of data privacy/protection and security policies. In addition, you will be expected to respond to a wide range of legal queries from Google staff in Hamburg, Frankfurt and Dusseldorf. You should be capable of producing high quality work in a flexible, fast paced environment and have the ability to work for clients located in all the European and U.S. Google offices.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance with European laws with an emphasis on European data protection/privacy, content regulation, consumer protection and advertising compliance.
• Respond promptly to a wide range of legal requests from advertising sales, marketing, client services and other business clients in Google's German offices and elsewhere in Europe.

Requirements:

• Substantial experience addressing European compliance issues for Internet/e-commerce companies.
• Substantial interest and experience in European data protection/data privacy matters for Internet/e-commerce companies.
• Very strong academic credentials.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Good business judgment.
• In-house experience preferred.
• Solid understanding of Internet architecture and operation.
• Well organised and able to manage numerous projects simultaneously under deadline pressure.
• Flexibility (including some travel) and willingness to work on a broad variety of compliance matters.
• Sense of humour, commitment to professionalism, commitment to customer service and willingness to work hard a must.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume in German and English to jobs@google.com. Important: The subject field of your email must include European Compliance Counsel - Hamburg.

Position available in Mountain View, CA.

Google is looking for an attorney to assist with intellectual property issues. This position will be involved with a wide range of intellectual property issues. The substantive areas include copyright, framing, linking (including deep-linking), defamation, etc. And the legal work for these substantive areas ranges from advice to implementation to litigation support. Indeed, the only intellectual property matters with which this position will not be deeply involved are matters that are strictly patent in nature, which are handled by other existing Google lawyers.

Requirements:

• Strong academic credentials (e.g., reputation of law school, etc.).
• Admission to the State Bar of California preferred, other state bars considered.
• Experience with intellectual property law issues, especially those relevant to Internet companies.
• Extensive experience with (and understanding of) the online industry.
• Experience with litigation and third party disputes is preferred.
• Strong interpersonal and team skills.
• Ability to respond to questions/issues spontaneously.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to jobs@google.com. Important: The subject field of your email must include Intellectual Property Counsel - Mountain View.

Position available in Mountain View, CA.

Google is looking for an attorney to assist with intellectual property issues. This position will be involved with a wide range of intellectual property issues, with a focus on trademark issues. The attorney will be responsible for:

• Providing legal counsel on branding activities, including the selection and registration of trademarks.
• US trademark prosecution and the prosecution of foreign applications.
• Policing trademark infringement worldwide and also managing contested matters related to trademarks.
• Providing advice to product development team members and others throughout the company regarding copyright, framing, linking (including deep-linking), defamation and a variety of other intellectual property issues, excluding patent issues.

Requirements:

• Strong academic credentials (e.g., reputation of law school, etc.).
• Admission to the State Bar of California preferred, other state bars considered.
• Experience with intellectual property law issues, especially those relevant to Internet companies.
• Extensive experience with (and understanding of) the online industry.
• Understanding of technology used to provide online services is preferred.
• Experience with litigation and third party disputes is preferred.
• Strong interpersonal and team skills.
• Ability to respond to questions/issues spontaneously.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to jobs@google.com. Important: The subject field of your email must include Intellectual Property/Trademark Counsel - Mountain View.

Position available in Mountain View, CA.

Want to be involved with the cutting edge products and services that make Google work, in an environment that is both energetic and challenging? Google is looking for an attorney to join its patent team and to help fashion and implement the company's patent strategy. This is particularly important for Google, a technology-driven company with over 50 Ph.D.s on its staff and an emphasis on innovation. In this role, you will have responsibility in all areas of Google's patent needs, including the following:

• Determining strategic areas for patenting.
• Identifying patentable inventions.
• Assisting with patent litigation.
• Analyzing and responding to notice letters.
• Evaluating potential acquisitions.
• Educating researchers and engineers.
• Improving our internal processes.

Requirements:

• Strong academic credentials.
• Experience identifying patentable subject matter and prosecuting applications.
• Degree in Computer Science / Electrical Engineering preferred.
• Solid understanding of Internet architecture and operation.
• Experience with business strategy preferred.
• Experience with third party issues preferred.
• Strong interpersonal and team skills.
• Ability to respond to questions/issues spontaneously.
• Admitted to a state bar and to practice before the U.S. P.T.O.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to jobs@google.com. Important: The subject field of your email must include Patent Counsel - Mountain View.