Top Counsel Jobs in Chicago, IL

The Counsel II role involves drafting, negotiating global commercial agreements and providing legal advice to cross-functional teams, managing legal issues, and improving internal processes.

Provide in-house legal privacy counsel for a health-science services company: advise on US and international privacy laws, draft and negotiate privacy agreements, lead incident response and DPIAs/PIAs, implement privacy policies and governance, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and monitor regulatory developments to operationalize privacy-first processes.

The Contracts Counsel will draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts, advise on legal issues, and support contract management across various business units.

The role involves providing legal advice on bank regulations, analyzing compliance requirements, engaging with regulators, and collaborating with legal teams on legislative matters.

The Associate General Counsel will manage legal matters including contracts, regulatory analysis, and product counseling, supporting Vetcove's growth and legal strategy.

The Corporate Counsel for M&A advises on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and related legal matters, reviewing agreements and supporting strategic initiatives.

Provide legal advice and governance for firm-wide AI initiatives, partnering with IT, security, procurement, and business teams. Advise on data use, privacy, IP, confidentiality, vendor contracts, and regulatory developments; develop policies, training, and standards to enable responsible AI adoption and mitigate operational, legal, and reputational risk.

The Associate General Counsel negotiates, drafts, and reviews commercial agreements, supports property transactions, and collaborates on legal compliance and contract management.

Lead development and execution of advanced claims analysis and advocacy strategies, resolve complex cases, represent the company in high-level negotiations, monitor industry trends, improve operational efficiency, mentor the claims advocacy team, and collaborate with underwriting, legal, and senior management to mitigate risk in specialty insurance.

Provide business-oriented legal advice to global advisory services teams; draft and negotiate commercial agreements; optimize contracting processes and Ironclad CLM; identify and mitigate legal and operational risks; partner with stakeholders to ensure compliance and continuous improvement of legal policies and practices.

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.

Provide attorney-level guidance to drive legal technology adoption across practice groups, develop playbooks, run pilots and change management, collaborate with leadership to prioritize initiatives, and support practice-specific resource and automation efforts to improve legal service delivery.

Provide broad in-house legal counsel for product and business teams, focusing on commercial contracting, payments/FinTech regulatory issues, privacy, healthcare compliance, IP, and disputes. Draft, negotiate, and manage agreements; improve contract templates and legal processes; partner with Sales, GTM, and Legal Operations to enable faster deals and build scalable workflows. Operate autonomously while escalating high-risk or strategic matters.

Provide in-house legal counsel across the Americas on commercial contracts (SaaS, licensing), employment matters, corporate governance, privacy, compliance, and AI governance. Negotiate agreements, support HR and cross-functional stakeholders, implement legal operations and AI-enabled workflows, coordinate external counsel, and contribute to process and policy development to manage enterprise risk and support growth.

Provide legal and regulatory counsel to product, engineering, and partnerships teams on Stripe products. Draft and review product terms and documents, advise through product lifecycle from scoping to launch, monitor laws on consumer financial data access, and collaborate cross-functionally to shape product roadmap and compliance.

Serve as chief legal advisor and strategic partner to the CEO and executive team. Build and lead a small legal team, negotiate and draft complex commercial, vendor, healthcare, and partnership agreements, manage corporate governance, litigation, and regulatory compliance (privacy, healthcare, AI). Lead M&A and financings, oversee IP strategy, and partner across Product, Engineering, Security, Clinical, Sales, and Finance to enable growth.

Provide strategic legal support for the Arc blockchain, advising on design, regulatory compliance, and risk management while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Provide legal support for product underwriting by drafting and updating proprietary policies and endorsements, coordinating regulatory filings, advising underwriting/claims/actuarial on coverage and wording, driving remediation and governance, maintaining a policy repository, training underwriting staff, and advising on AI-enabled tools for policy wording management.

Provide legal support for clinical research by drafting, reviewing, and negotiating Clinical Trial Agreements and related vendor and commercial contracts. Ensure compliance with FDA, GCP, HIPAA, GDPR and other regulations; develop templates, SOPs, and negotiation playbooks; advise internal stakeholders on risk mitigation; assist with informed consent review; deliver training and lead process-improvement and cross-functional projects.

The Regulatory Counsel advises on compliance with mortgage lending laws, manages regulatory changes, and partners with teams on legal guidance and risk assessment.

As General Counsel, you will lead the legal function, provide strategic legal counsel, manage a team of attorneys, and oversee compliance matters within the organization.

Provide legal counsel on employment matters and general legal support for a fintech company, focusing on compliance, investigations, contracts, and advice on employment law.

The Counsel – Equity Management will oversee equity compensation compliance, advise on regulatory matters, manage equity transactions, and draft legal documentation.

Lead and manage complex product liability, toxic tort, and mass tort settlements from negotiation through claims resolution and program closure. Draft and negotiate settlement documents, develop settlement structures and eligibility, oversee claims administration, manage teams reviewing claims, perform claims data analysis, ensure compliance, and coordinate with plaintiffs' counsel and stakeholders.

The Senior Corporate Counsel will serve as a procurement legal expert, review agreements, conduct vendor risk evaluations, and draft policies and templates.