Top Legal Jobs in Chicago, IL

Support legal, regulatory, and compliance consulting projects involving fraud investigations, forensic analysis, regulatory enforcement, governance, and risk mitigation. Responsibilities include researching commercial laws, reviewing legal documents, maintaining corporate records and legal databases, and assisting with contract negotiation and dispute resolution. The intern will collaborate with advisory teams, learn PwC methodologies, and contribute to client deliverables while developing skills in legal compliance, regulatory management, and investigations.

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.

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.

Advise ZS stakeholders and project teams on U.S. healthcare regulatory matters, including HIPAA, Anti-Kickback, Stark, False Claims Act, and FDA requirements. Draft, review, and negotiate regulatory provisions in services, vendor, and licensing agreements; evaluate legal and compliance risks; investigate and resolve legal issues; and recommend actions for proposed services. The role requires collaboration with commercial attorneys, compliance professionals, business leaders, and client teams.

Advise retail banking Savings and Marketing teams on products, marketing strategy, legal risks, policies, customer communications, litigation, compliance, and third-party relationships. Partner with Compliance, Risk, Legal, and business stakeholders; coordinate outside counsel; assess complex regulatory issues; and provide strategic business counsel while managing multiple priorities.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Performs entry-level legal research, investigations, administrative hearings work, and preparation of pleadings, orders, reports, legislation, and regulatory documents. Advises public officials, attorneys, witnesses, and interested parties on administrative and regulatory matters. Reviews petitions and notices, conducts depositions and limited negotiations, and supports legal and administrative processes within the Illinois Secretary of State’s office.

Leads intellectual property strategy for Mars Snacking technologies, including global patent prosecution, freedom-to-operate analyses, portfolio development, trade secret counseling, and IP contract negotiation. Partners with R&D, Marketing, Innovation, Commercial, and Legal teams; manages outside counsel; advises on patent risks and technology launches; supports competitive intelligence, transactions, and IP training.

Provides strategic legal leadership for PayPal’s U.S. federal and state financial-services regulatory relationships. Serves as primary counsel to supervisory authorities and advises executives on regulatory risk, product approvals, legislative developments, examinations, and enforcement matters. Leads regulatory strategy across payments, money transmission, consumer financial protection, BSA/AML, and electronic funds transfers. Manages and develops a team of regulatory attorneys, collaborates with compliance and risk functions, and represents PayPal before regulators and industry groups.

Provides strategic legal and regulatory advice on derivatives, structured products, and capital markets trading matters. Drafts and negotiates ISDA Master Agreements, CSAs, control agreements, risk participation agreements, confirmations, and related documentation. Advises trading, sales, risk, compliance, and operations teams on derivatives regulations, margin requirements, risk mitigation, and business solutions. Acts as a legal subject matter expert, manages external counsel, resolves complex issues, and supports global capital markets initiatives.

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.

Provides legal counsel to financial solutions leadership, supporting deal structuring, transaction execution, risk mitigation, contract negotiation, legal research, and document preparation. Manages outside counsel, advises senior stakeholders, protects company interests, and supports corporate governance, restructuring, M&A, and cross-functional projects. Requires independent judgment, strong communication, project leadership, and insurance or reinsurance financial solutions experience.

Provides comprehensive administrative and litigation support to attorneys, including document preparation, court e-filing, discovery, trial preparation, docket monitoring, case-file management, scheduling, travel coordination, client communication, billing support, expense reporting, and time entry. Maintains confidentiality, manages competing priorities, and supports legal teams in a high-pressure environment.

Provide US and Americas legal support to Sales: draft, review and negotiate commercial and supplier contracts; advise on legal, financial and operational risk; support procurement, compliance, product and data/AI matters; develop templates, playbooks and training; improve contracting governance and processes; partner with business to enable commercial outcomes.

Leads Cisco’s Product Legal teams supporting Security, Observability, and Data Platform business units. Advises senior executives on product development, technology strategy, go-to-market models, intellectual property, licensing, privacy, AI, cybersecurity, regulatory requirements, and technology transactions. Oversees legal support throughout product lifecycles, develops scalable legal strategies, manages organizational integration, and builds high-performing legal teams across global technology portfolios.

Provides legal counsel to Syngenta’s NAJAK Vegetable Seeds business on commercial transactions, contracts, intellectual property, competition law, litigation, compliance, and strategic projects. Leads US real estate legal matters and serves as US Data Privacy Officer. Drafts and negotiates agreements, coordinates cross-functional legal support, advises on commercial relationships, and delivers legal compliance training.

Manage Life360’s patent and trademark portfolios, including prosecution, enforcement, and outside counsel relationships. Advise on intellectual property matters involving patents, trademarks, trade secrets, licensing, open-source software, product development, and commercial transactions. Draft and negotiate IP-related agreements, support M&A due diligence, review marketing materials for compliance, and counsel cross-functional teams on strategic IP risks and opportunities.

Manage Helix’s legal operations infrastructure, including request intake, workflows, SOPs, legal technology platforms, metrics, contract reviews, renewals, vendor coordination, outside counsel, IP docketing, and corporate filings. The role partners cross-functionally with legal, finance, procurement, and business leaders to improve processes, administer systems, triage matters, and maintain efficient, organized legal operations.

Owns the end-to-end contract and legal document lifecycle, including maintaining MSAs and templates, redlining routine agreements, managing document control and data rooms, coordinating due diligence, tracking renewals, and supporting contract execution. Drafts investor, equity, trademark, and corporate filing documents while serving as an internal legal and paralegal resource. Partners with Finance, Compliance, Sales, People Operations, leadership, and outside counsel, escalating higher-risk legal matters as needed.