Top Legal Jobs in Chicago, IL

Manage and optimize operations for a Global Payment Network legal team: support attorneys on complex transactions, maintain process documentation and playbooks, track compliance and process breakdowns, drive process improvements, assist with routine amendments/NDAs, collect and report transaction data to leadership, and centralize Legal SME feedback for consistent guidance.

Provide senior legal counsel for trading and treasury functions across US and London/EUR markets. Lead negotiations on prime brokerage, ISDA/CSA, securities lending, repurchase, and banking documentation. Advise on regulatory compliance for transaction reporting, clearing, margin, custody, and collateral. Partner with Risk, Treasury, and business teams and manage cross-functional projects.

As Commercial Legal Counsel at GitLab, you will negotiate and draft various complex agreements, advise on risk allocation, support public sector transactions, and enhance the legal team's efficiency and training initiatives.

Negotiate delinquent accounts with law firms to secure reduced balances, extended payment terms, or lump-sum settlements. Review legal documents, manage escalated portfolios and client accounts, maintain attorney relationships, meet monthly settlement and compliance goals, and handle high-volume inbound/outbound calls to resolve lawsuits and prevent further legal action.

As Vice President, Legal Commercial, you will lead GitLab's global commercial legal function, advising on strategies, managing a legal team, and overseeing AI governance and contracting.

Lead and operationalize responses to subpoenas and eDiscovery demands; manage the end-to-end eDiscovery lifecycle; coordinate internal and external stakeholders; draft and improve policies and processes for customer data requests; monitor legal and regulatory developments; and act as project manager to drive litigation operations and legal tech–driven workflow improvements.

Build and run AI-first processes for legal e-billing and outside counsel management. Administer Brightflag, manage monthly accruals and vendor onboarding, analyze OC spend using SQL/Snowflake/Looker, produce reports and scorecards, and partner with FP&A, Sourcing, and stakeholders to optimize budgets, forecasting, and outside counsel strategy.

The Legal Engineer will help clients maximize the use of Legora's AI-powered platform, acting as a liaison between clients and product development, providing demos, and ensuring effective adoption across legal teams.

Provide legal support for technology transactions across the firm: draft, structure, and negotiate tech agreements (SaaS, cloud, AI, data, IP), lead diligence for investments/acquisitions, advise on regulatory and outsourcing matters, coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, and manage multiple complex matters while delivering clear legal advice to business and senior executives.

Design, build, and run SRAM's commercial legal infrastructure including CLM, templates, playbooks, and AI-assisted workflows. Lead complex negotiations for manufacturing, supply, distribution, sponsorship, and international deals. Drive adoption of standardized tools, capture institutional knowledge, support global supply chain and trade compliance, and scale the commercial legal function while providing clear, business-focused legal advice.

Part-time remote legal internship supporting regulatory and marketing compliance. Conduct FDA/FTC and advertising legal research, review marketing materials, draft memos, assist with contract lifecycle and corporate records, and support policy and training development.

Serve as a client-facing legal operations/product specialist who partners with in-house legal teams to drive adoption of Legora’s AI-native platform, run pilots, deliver demos and training, capture user insights to inform product, and build scalable playbooks to improve contract, matter, and compliance workflows.

The Lead Legal Engineer will lead complex client engagements, manage a team of Legal Engineers, and drive adoption of AI-powered legal solutions.

Lead design and implementation of AI-assisted legal operations and knowledge-management workflows. Manage daily legal department operations, project-manage cross-functional company initiatives, evaluate and deploy AI tooling, and track adoption and efficiency. Drive process improvements and stakeholder alignment to scale legal support for a fast-growing healthcare technology company.

Provide legal guidance on healthcare regulatory matters and commercial contracting for payor and clinical partnerships. Advise on corporate practice of medicine, fraud and abuse, telehealth, HIPAA, Medicare/Medicaid, AI clinical governance, and negotiate provider, payor, and commercial agreements to enable compliant growth.

Provide strategic legal and regulatory advice on U.S. employment law, employee benefits (including ERISA), and compensation. Counsel business and HR leaders on employee relations, performance management, leaves, wage-and-hour, pay equity, contingent workers, immigration, investigations, M&A and outsourcing. Serve as subject-matter expert, manage legal risk, instruct external counsel, and support enterprise-wide initiatives while implementing improvements and advising senior leadership.

Provide administrative support for immigration legal services: receptionist duties, client intake, data entry, file management, prepare and mail USCIS applications, schedule appointments, collect fees, assist with case management, translate documents, support workshops, and produce monthly reports.

The Legal Process Engineer analyzes and redesigns legal workflows, incorporates technology and AI solutions, and collaborates with practitioners and technical teams to improve legal processes.

Leads an international legal team advising on technology transactions, third-party contracting, client data management, artificial intelligence, and related regulatory risks. Negotiates complex technology agreements, advises senior stakeholders, partners with Risk and Compliance, manages legal professionals, and develops enterprise contracting strategy across business lines.

Part-time law student internship providing administrative litigation support: manage physical and electronic case files, assist with discovery and trial preparation, perform basic legal research and templated drafting, track deadlines and project tasks, and help improve department processes under attorney supervision.

Provides day-to-day legal support to the U.S. property and casualty insurance business. Responsibilities include drafting policy forms and endorsements, supporting product strategy and innovation, managing regulatory filings and inquiries, reviewing insurance distribution agreements, advising on marketing and licensing requirements, handling complaints and examinations, and conducting legal research.

Manage end-to-end commercial contracts for customers and partners: draft, review, redline, and negotiate SaaS and licensing agreements; partner with Sales to unblock deals; maintain templates and playbooks; ensure security, privacy, and compliance alignment; support HR/employment documentation; coordinate external counsel and assist with disputes and compliance initiatives. On-site in Chicago.

Provide secretarial, administrative, and clerical support to litigation attorneys: draft and edit pleadings, e-file documents, manage calendars, coordinate meetings and travel, handle billing and trial preparation, maintain files, and communicate professionally with clients and vendors in a fast-paced law firm environment.

Leads Northern Trust’s global technology and procurement legal practice, including AI governance, emerging technology, complex vendor contracting, outsourcing, SaaS, cloud, data, and software agreements. Advises executives on legal and regulatory risks in financial services, develops AI adoption strategies and legal review frameworks, negotiates high-value technology transactions, maintains contracts and playbooks, and manages technology and procurement attorneys.

Leads legal pricing strategy, matter budgeting, alternative fee arrangements, and external law firm negotiations. Advises senior legal and business stakeholders using financial and matter-performance insights, evaluates AI impacts on pricing and service delivery, and drives adoption of AI-enabled pricing tools. Collaborates across Legal, Finance, Legal Technology, and Procurement on transformation initiatives while delivering training, change management, market analysis, governance, and executive-ready recommendations.