Top Legal Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads global legal support for commercial, digitalization, technology, cybersecurity, data privacy, sourcing, procurement, and real estate matters. Advises executive leadership, oversees major contracting and technology transactions, develops AI governance and privacy frameworks, manages legal risk and outside counsel, and leads a global legal team. Establishes scalable contracting playbooks, approval processes, governance mechanisms, and operating models supporting enterprise transformation and business growth.

Lead securities, public company reporting, corporate governance, entity management, and M&A legal work for GitLab. Manage SEC filings, proxy statements, board matters, equity plans, subsidiary governance, transactions, and outside counsel. Advise senior stakeholders on legal risks, maintain compliance processes, and create scalable legal playbooks, templates, and workflows. Collaborate with globally distributed cross-functional teams and train junior legal professionals.

Leads Blee’s Legal Engineering function, translating advertising, consumer protection, and regulatory requirements into scalable AI review logic. Owns legal frameworks, quality measurement, regulatory updates, customer guidance, product collaboration, and team growth. Partners with legal, compliance, product, implementation, customer success, and AI engineering teams while representing Blee externally. Also supports in-house legal matters, including commercial agreements.

Serve as the primary legal partner to Procurement, drafting and negotiating high-value buy-side agreements across SaaS, software, marketing, facilities, professional services, and real estate. Provide guidance on complex transactions, risk allocation, data privacy, technology contracting, and vendor risk. Develop scalable contracting processes, playbooks, templates, training, and knowledge resources while leveraging automation and legal technology. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and support broader Legal team initiatives.

Leads public-company securities compliance, SEC reporting, capital markets transactions, corporate governance, board support, M&A, strategic investments, equity programs, executive compensation, investor communications, and legal operations. Advises executives and directors, manages external counsel and budgets, and implements legal technology and AI workflows. Requires a J.D., active bar membership, and 10–12+ years of corporate legal experience spanning top-tier law firms and public technology companies.

Provides in-house corporate legal support for an international proprietary trading organization. Responsibilities include advising on corporate law, entity structures, intracompany transactions, tax matters, and organizational actions; drafting and negotiating agreements; preparing legal memoranda; and supporting contracts, regulatory safeguards, and cross-functional business objectives.

Partners with legal clients in leveraged finance and restructuring to map complex workflows involving credit agreements, debt structures, and covenants. Uses AI and LLM tools to prototype automated solutions for credit analysis and document research. Acts as a client-facing domain expert, codifies workflow knowledge, and translates client feedback into product enhancements in collaboration with product and engineering teams.

Supports OCC’s Legal department through ad hoc projects, legal research, analysis, writing, and presentation development. The intern may work on regulatory, commercial, litigation, and corporate governance matters while assisting attorneys with legal processes and advice for OCC stakeholders. This is a 12-week seasonal summer internship for currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate students, specifically law students who have completed one or two years of law school.

Provides senior legal counsel on public company reporting, securities law, corporate governance, SEC filings, Board and committee matters, M&A, financings, restructurings, and strategic transactions. Advises executives and directors, manages governance processes, coordinates cross-functional compliance initiatives, oversees outside counsel, and translates complex legal risks into practical business guidance.

Provides enterprise-wide legal counsel on technology matters, including AI, SaaS, software as a medical device, data use, and digital health product development. Negotiates technology agreements, advises sales teams on RFPs, assesses regulatory risks, develops contract templates and negotiation playbooks, and supports risk mitigation, strategic legal analysis, and internal education.

Paid 12-week legal internship supporting Wintrust’s corporate legal department. Responsibilities include legal research and writing, subpoena responses, contract review, regulatory compliance meetings, business-focused projects, customer engagement, and learning internal software systems. Interns will gain exposure to litigation, compliance, corporate, and regulatory functions while working in person 40 hours per week from May through August 2027.

Senior Attorney or Counsel will lead impact litigation, develop legal strategies, conduct trial and appellate work, draft legislative and administrative proposals, provide testimony, engage coalition partners, educate the public, and collaborate across departments to advance LGBTQ+ and HIV-related civil rights. The role requires independent legal judgment, client counseling, advocacy, outreach, and policy expertise, with potential administrative supervision for Counsel-level hires.

Summer legal intern supporting the Senior Corporate Counsel with in-house legal work involving consumer financial services, state and federal regulations, research, writing, analysis, and multiple concurrent assignments. The intern will gain practical exposure to corporate legal operations, consumer finance regulations, presentations, and generalist in-house counsel responsibilities.

Administer commercial agreements from intake through approval, signature, and ongoing contract management. Maintain CLM records, track renewals and obligations, prepare summaries, support audits and due diligence, coordinate stakeholders, and escalate issues requiring legal judgment. The role also improves contract procedures, templates, workflows, and automation while handling confidential information.

OpenArt is hiring its second lawyer to work broadly across contracts, intellectual property, privacy, employment, corporate governance, taxation, financings, immigration, and product counseling. The role can be tailored toward a specific specialty or end-to-end contract ownership. The position emphasizes curiosity, passion, independent judgment, direct collaboration, and using AI tools for legal drafting, research, review, and triage. It is remote in the United States.

Provides practical legal advice on commercial contracts, regulatory compliance, data privacy, employment matters, and vendor and sales agreements. Drafts and negotiates SaaS, technology, consulting, and service contracts; supports procurement, sales, and HR teams; monitors global legal developments; and advises on compliance. Leads adoption of automation, AI, and legal technology to improve legal operations and supports scalable processes for a fully remote technology company.

Provides legal and administrative support to the Social Security team by organizing case files, pleadings, evidence, exhibits, and correspondence. Maintains calendars, deadlines, indexes, billing, and filing systems; researches laws and regulations; drafts and proofreads legal documents; coordinates with clients and witnesses; and assists attorneys with case preparation and office logistics.

Provides senior legal support for complex software transactions, master services agreements, reseller and alliance arrangements, vendor contracts, and consulting agreements. Advises business, product, engineering, technology, and leadership teams on software, data, AI-enabled products, emerging AI regulations, and responsible AI frameworks. Drafts and negotiates agreements, develops legal strategies, supports process improvements, monitors legal developments, and delivers strategic counsel across North American business units.

Provides product legal counseling to Cisco’s Campus Networking and Webex businesses. Advises product management and engineering teams throughout the product lifecycle on AI, privacy, data protection, regulatory, intellectual property, licensing, and commercial matters. Drafts product legal collateral, builds cross-functional relationships, manages multiple legal projects, and delivers concise, practical guidance that balances legal risk with business objectives.

Provides senior legal and executive administrative support to the Legal Department. Responsibilities include preparing governmental registrations, insurance applications, trust and estate documents, invoices, expense reports, correspondence, presentations, and legal filings. The role also maintains filing systems, coordinates meetings and conferences, manages deadlines, and handles confidential information while supporting corporate governance and department operations.

Provide commercial legal support to Sales and cross-functional teams: draft, structure and negotiate software, licensing, reseller and partner agreements; advise on IP, data protection, export controls and anti-corruption; resolve contractual issues; support corporate governance, compliance, and embedding regulatory changes into business processes.

Provides legal counsel to retail bank branches, cafes, and customer complaints operations. Advises on branch servicing, complaint responses, disputes, compliance and operational errors, regulatory and litigation trends, and standardized compensation responses. Partners with compliance and business teams to investigate complaints, translate legal requirements into business guidance, and identify strategic insights across customer trends and regulatory developments.

Provides broad corporate legal support across governance, commercial and technology contracts, litigation, privacy, cybersecurity, product development, and regulatory risk. Drafts and negotiates SaaS, licensing, vendor, data processing, and trader agreements; manages outside counsel, litigation, subpoenas, corporate records, and legal research. Advises leadership and cross-functional teams, supports privacy and security incidents, and delivers internal legal and compliance training.

Handle complex professional liability claims, primarily legal malpractice claims. Responsibilities include coverage evaluation, risk transfer analysis, independent investigation, liability and damages assessment, reserving, litigation management, counsel coordination, negotiation, exposure communication, and resolution strategy development. The role requires at least seven years of professional liability claims experience, strong legal and claims expertise, excellent communication and negotiation skills, and periodic travel for mediations, trials, and related meetings.

Supports civil rights and civil liberties impact litigation and advocacy through legal research, drafting briefs and complaints, legislative analysis, discovery, hearings, settlement work, client outreach, and collaboration with community organizations. The fellow will work under Legal Department supervision in a hybrid Chicago office setting and must secure external fellowship funding.