Junior Legal Counsel

Why we're hiring:

We are looking for a driven and detail-oriented Junior Legal Counsel to join our legal team in Istanbul. This role offers an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience across a diverse portfolio of creative, production, and media agencies [WPP Production, WPP Creative (VML, Ogilvy), Burson and WPP Media]. You will support the legal team in day-to-day commercial operations, contract drafting, and compliance tracking.

What you'll be doing:

• Commercial Contracts: Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a high volume of day-to-day commercial contracts, including vendor agreements, talent/influencer contracts, non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), and standard client service agreements.
• Contract Management: Prepare and process contract-related documentation for internal review and execution. Administer the full contract lifecycle, including tracking key components (e.g., renewals, expirations), ensuring timely follow-ups, and managing document versions.
• Litigation & Compliance Support: Assisting the legal team with the tracking and coordination of ongoing litigation (both employment and commercial files), and supporting data privacy (KVKK) compliance processes.
• Template Management: Helping to maintain, update, and develop user-friendly legal templates for the agencies.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Working closely with central teams(account management, investment, finance, and HR) to provide timely legal responses to daily operational queries.

Who you'll be working with:

Reporting into the Senior Legal Counsel in Turkey, working in the wider WPP HQ Legal team.

What you'll need:

• Qualified lawyer registered with a Turkish Bar Association, with 1 to 3 years’ post-qualification experience (preferably with corporate/commercial experience in a reputable law firm or an in-house team).
• Contractual Fundamentals: Strong foundational knowledge of Turkish Contract Law and professional exposure in drafting commercial agreements.
• Industry Interest: A genuine interest in intellectual property, advertising law, technology, and the media/marketing landscape.
• Litigation Awareness: Basic exposure to or understanding of Turkish litigation processes (commercial and employment).
• Agility & Collaboration: Excellent teamwork skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment.
• Language: Native Turkish and fluent English are essential.

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

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