Top Consulting Legal Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead and manage complex commercial and regulatory litigation from pre‑litigation through trial and appeal. Develop strategy, oversee discovery and privilege, manage outside counsel and budgets, advise senior business stakeholders, handle trials/hearings/arbitrations, and drive process improvements and knowledge sharing across legal and business teams.

Manage end-to-end client commercial contracts: draft, review, and negotiate MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, and DPAs; maintain templates and clause libraries; track renewals and obligations; ensure compliance and risk mitigation; support audits, due diligence, corporate filings, and M&A activities; provide stakeholder guidance and training.

Provide commercial contracting support including drafting, review, negotiation, risk assessment, and development of standard contracts. Advise regional GCs and stakeholders, maintain compliance tracking systems, support broader legal projects, and coach Contracts Specialists.

Provide paralegal support for M&A transactions, corporate governance, equity administration, compliance, filings, and post-closing matters. Coordinate with outside counsel, internal stakeholders, Finance, and HR; prepare and populate legal templates; maintain corporate records, cap tables, and entity filings; and support legal operations and platform administration.

The Legal Assistant will support attorneys by drafting legal documents, conducting research, managing case files, and ensuring regulatory compliance in a remote setting.

The Contract Administrator will support contract development, review, and negotiation activities in the medical device industry, managing clinical study agreements and vendor contracts while collaborating with various teams to ensure compliance and efficiency.

Lead global entity management and corporate governance for U.S. and international entities, ensure compliance and good standing, maintain organizational data, prepare board/shareholder documents, support M&A and restructuring diligence, coordinate with tax/finance/outside counsel, improve entity-management processes and technology, and serve as primary contact for registered agents and regulators.

Manage contract scoping, negotiation, and execution; resolve technical issues in Conga and Salesforce environments; develop compliance measures in Salesforce; design and implement contract-generation and process improvements; collaborate with teams using Conga CPQ and CLM; monitor contract lifecycle and renewals.

Provide product-focused legal counsel across the full product lifecycle, advising on AI/ML, privacy, IP, and open-source issues; draft and negotiate technology licensing and integration agreements; support trademark, acquisitions integration, and incident response; help build privacy-by-design practices and shape product legal function as it scales.

First in-house legal hire responsible for drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements (banks, processors, liquidity providers, enterprise customers), advising on product and regulatory strategy for payments and digital assets, aligning contracts with compliance (BSA/AML, sanctions, data protection), building scalable legal operations (CLM, templates, workflows), and supporting governance, fundraising, and strategic transactions.