Legal Counsel
WPP is seeking a commercially astute Legal Counsel to join its global Legal team in London. This role involves providing practical legal expertise to agency commercial and client teams worldwide, ensuring that WPP's practices align with legal requirements and ethical obligations in a dynamic environment. The position offers autonomy and responsibility within a fast-paced in-house legal setting, working alongside exceptional lawyers.
Key responsibilities include drafting, negotiating, and advising on a wide range of commercial contracts, such as client agreements (creative, social media, production), IP licenses, vendor, talent, and influencer contracts. The role also involves developing user-friendly legal templates, advising on advertising clearance and litigation risk mitigation, supporting client pitches and contract renegotiations, providing global legal support and strategic advice to WPP agencies, training stakeholders on critical legal issues impacting the media and marketing industry (IP, advertising, data privacy, AI), and collaborating with the global legal team to uphold high professional standards.
The ideal candidate is a qualified solicitor (or equivalent) with a minimum of 3 years’ post-qualification experience. Proven experience in contract drafting is essential, and a strong working knowledge of intellectual property, advertising, data privacy, and artificial intelligence law is required. The candidate should demonstrate the ability to lead negotiations, develop strategic commercial approaches, and possess excellent collaboration skills to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams and jurisdictions. Fluency in English is essential, and additional European languages, especially French or Italian, are highly desirable.
WPP offers a culture where passionate and inspired people can do extraordinary work. The company provides opportunities to create, influence, and complete projects at an unparalleled scale in the industry. Employees are encouraged to foster creativity, collaboration, and connection, with a hybrid approach that includes teams in the office around four days a week.