Top Senior Legal Jobs in Chicago, IL

Provide expert legal advice on financial crimes and digital asset matters, including AML, KYC/CDD, and anti-corruption. Advise on product design, controls, investigations, transactions, and regulatory developments; support policy, governance, and cross-functional implementation.

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.

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.

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

Lead employment, privacy, and security legal matters for a remote mental-health company. Provide practical counsel on worker classification, HIPAA and state privacy compliance, breach response, contracts, and AI-related employment/privacy issues while building policies and processes to support operations.

Lead negotiation and closing of SaaS, cloud and AI-related commercial agreements; partner with sales, product, engineering and support; ensure data privacy, security, and evolving AI governance compliance; enable sales through training and high-volume deal support; find commercial solutions to close complex, time-sensitive deals.

Lead and scale U.S. public sector contracting: draft and negotiate SaaS/cloud and subcontract agreements, advise on FAR/DFARS/GSA/FedRAMP compliance, support RFPs and audits, build legal playbooks, and partner with cross-functional teams to mitigate regulatory and export control risk.

Provide strategic legal and regulatory counsel on PBM compliance, market conduct exams, investigations and enforcement. Advise internal business partners, coordinate audits and examinations, manage multiple legal issues, and collaborate with outside counsel and cross-functional teams to mitigate legal and business risk in a regulated healthcare environment.

Part-time corporate paralegal supporting global legal on entity maintenance, contract management and review, records management, litigation support, eDiscovery, transaction due diligence, invoicing, electronic signatures, and notary duties. Works on projects to simplify entity structure and streamlines legal operations, reporting to General Counsel.

Provide hands-on legal and compliance support: draft, review, negotiate, and manage contracts; maintain corporate governance and entity records; support FINRA/SEC/MSRB compliance, regulatory exams, and legal operations technology and workflows.

Provide commercial transactional legal support for large, complex merchant and partner deals globally. Negotiate and draft multinational agreements, advise sales and cross-functional teams on payments, licensing, and regulatory risk, manage deal closings, ensure compliance, escalate high-stakes issues, and develop risk management frameworks to protect PayPal's legal interests.

Provide legal advice on technology and procurement matters, focusing on AI, cloud, SaaS, licensing, distributed ledger, and product development. Draft and update templates, negotiate complex technology agreements, support cross-functional teams and governance committees, and advise on regulatory developments affecting technology procurement across multiple jurisdictions.

Provide legal guidance on a variety of commercial and regulatory matters, with a focus on drug information and healthcare solutions. Manage outside counsel and counsel on compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, and healthcare laws.

The Legal Assistant will support lawyers in a corporate legal team by managing tasks, ensuring organization, and preparing documents. Responsibilities include administrative tasks and legal document preparation.

Serve as the Bank's Compliance Officer administering the Compliance Management System; oversee monitoring, testing, risk assessment, regulatory reporting, examinations, and governance. Provide routine legal and corporate governance support, coordinate with General Counsel and outside counsel on complex matters, review contracts and policies, and partner with business leaders to ensure regulatory compliance (including SBA, commercial lending, and CRA).

Provide day-to-day legal support to commercial, marketing, and functional teams across Dental Solutions and Health Information Systems. Review routine commercial and operational matters, support marketing/claims and contracting activities, maintain legal templates and processes, deliver training, coordinate with Regulatory, IP, Privacy, and Compliance, and help ensure timely, compliant business execution.

Provide strategic employment law advice across multiple jurisdictions; lead complex advisory and contentious employee matters; implement scalable legal solutions; drive cross-functional initiatives; build team knowledge resources and governance; manage external local counsel and oversee complex employment projects.

Provide transactional and compliance legal support to NAJAK Vegetable Seeds, advising on distribution/collaboration agreements, IP, quality claims/litigation, data privacy, product liability, and real estate; deliver training, coordinate with internal/external stakeholders, and support corporate legal projects for the BU.

Manage and scale a team of Legal Engineer/Product Specialists to drive customer adoption, retention, and expansion. Engage with strategic accounts, coach through complex implementations, build playbooks and scalable processes, partner cross-functionally to influence product roadmap, and measure team performance to ensure customer value realization.

Provide legal advisory and transactional support to Corporate & Investment Banking: draft, review and negotiate credit, security and banking documentation; conduct legal due diligence; identify and mitigate legal risk; advise on complex credit and corporate transactions; supervise junior lawyers and manage external law firm relationships.

Manage day-to-day Legal Department operations, implement processes and workflows, drive process improvements and metrics, coordinate onboarding/training, manage vendor and financial support, maintain knowledge repositories and collaboration sites, support legal technology adoption, and coordinate meetings, logistics, and departmental projects to enable efficient legal services delivery.

Lead and grow a Legal Engineering team that partners with Sales and cross-functional teams to support strategic customers, advise on corporate and transactional workflows, shape go-to-market strategy, and scale processes and enablement. Role combines hands-on customer engagement, product feedback, and team development for legal-AI solutions.

The role involves creating insights on AI in legal departments, advising clients, and collaborating on strategies for implementing AI technologies.

Lead and scale Legal and Compliance functions, manage a 3–4 person team, own contract lifecycle and Ironclad CLM workflows, build compliance programs (MNPI, privacy, SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA), advise leadership, collaborate cross-functionally, and create policies, training, and controls to support growth.

Manage construction defect litigation and complex third-party claim files, perform coverage analysis, manage outside counsel, conduct legal research and file audits, advise on negotiations/mediations, recommend reserves/payments, and support policy form review and claims reporting to senior management.