Tashna Newman

• Oversee licensing operations for movies and series across brands, ensuring compliance and efficient document management for Paramount Global's extensive portfolio.
• Draft option letters for licensed movies across all Paramount Global brands.
• Draft license acquisition agreements for BET Networks.
• Streamline document management processes, improving efficiency and accessibility on iManage.
• Coordinate collection and review of E&O certificates, ensuring compliance for licensed programs.
• Submit music cue sheets for licensed programs to PROs, maintaining timely and accurate records
• Ensure proper filing of safe harbor letters and manage document retrieval on iManage.

• Streamline acquisition agreement distribution across all brands, ensuring timely filing and stakeholder accessibility.
• Work closely with Risk Management to analyze errors and omissions certificates safeguarding licensed programs across all Paramount Global brands with meticulous attention to detail.
• Lead submission of music cue sheets to various music societies, ensuring proper licensing and royalty distribution for all licensed content in a timely manner.
• Develop and maintain robust safe harbor letter filing procedures, mitigating legal risks and ensuring compliance with industry regulations.
• Maintained an internal website for series acquisitions, enhancing information flow and decision-making processes across all brands.
• Maintained Nickelodeon's greenlight report, ensuring up-to-date and accurate project tracking.

• Provided comprehensive administrative support to SVP and Deputy General Counsel.
• Handled expense reports, coordinated office functions, set up new employees, hired temps, managed department moves.
• Liaised between attorneys and clients, facilitating effective communication.
• Assisted attorneys with client communications, drafted amendments, and prepared letters.
• Maintained strict confidentiality, protecting sensitive client information as required by legal ethics and regulations.
• Streamlined clip licensing process for Nickelodeon, managing requests, approvals, negotiations, and agreements.
• Maintained VH1 legal files, developed efficient filing systems, ensured quick document retrieval from eDOCS.

Conducted comprehensive legal research, meticulously prepared case exhibits, enhancing firm's litigation preparedness.

Worked closely with attorneys to provide key insights that strengthened case arguments and strategies.

Expertly organized and prepared exhibits for complex litigation cases, ensuring all critical evidence was readily accessible during trials.

Streamlined case file management system, reducing document retrieval time and improving overall case preparation efficiency for attorneys.