Top Senior Legal Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead securities, public company reporting, corporate governance, entity management, and M&A legal work for GitLab. Manage SEC filings, proxy statements, board matters, equity plans, subsidiary governance, transactions, and outside counsel. Advise senior stakeholders on legal risks, maintain compliance processes, and create scalable legal playbooks, templates, and workflows. Collaborate with globally distributed cross-functional teams and train junior legal professionals.

Leads Blee’s Legal Engineering function, translating advertising, consumer protection, and regulatory requirements into scalable AI review logic. Owns legal frameworks, quality measurement, regulatory updates, customer guidance, product collaboration, and team growth. Partners with legal, compliance, product, implementation, customer success, and AI engineering teams while representing Blee externally. Also supports in-house legal matters, including commercial agreements.

Serve as the primary legal partner to Procurement, drafting and negotiating high-value buy-side agreements across SaaS, software, marketing, facilities, professional services, and real estate. Provide guidance on complex transactions, risk allocation, data privacy, technology contracting, and vendor risk. Develop scalable contracting processes, playbooks, templates, training, and knowledge resources while leveraging automation and legal technology. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and support broader Legal team initiatives.

Provides in-house corporate legal support for an international proprietary trading organization. Responsibilities include advising on corporate law, entity structures, intracompany transactions, tax matters, and organizational actions; drafting and negotiating agreements; preparing legal memoranda; and supporting contracts, regulatory safeguards, and cross-functional business objectives.

Provide legal and regulatory counsel for PayPal-branded U.S. consumer credit products, including distribution, marketing, onboarding, servicing, disputes, and collections. Advise business teams on consumer credit, payments, lending, and consumer protection laws; assess legal risks; research regulatory developments; support examinations and audits; manage legal matters; and deliver practical guidance to cross-functional stakeholders.

Provides in-house labor and employment counsel, advises Human Resources and business stakeholders, ensures legal compliance, manages outside employment counsel, and supports litigation, labor relations, benefits, and employment policies. Drafts and negotiates commercial customer agreements involving services, data, and information technology. Develops customer-focused legal solutions, contributes to functional strategy, solves complex business problems, and operates independently in a demanding environment.

Handles complex professional liability claims, especially legal malpractice claims. Responsibilities include evaluating coverage, assessing risk transfer, investigating liability and damages, setting reserves, managing litigation and counsel, negotiating resolutions, communicating claim exposures, and developing strategies for favorable outcomes. Periodic travel is required for mediations, trials, and related meetings.

Lead complex global partner and channel transactions, including reseller, referral, MSP, OEM, systems integrator, and strategic alliance agreements. Advise business leaders on deal structures, negotiations, legal risks, and commercial solutions while collaborating across sales, product, privacy, security, finance, tax, engineering, operations, and compliance. Develop scalable contracting templates, playbooks, policies, training, and workflows for the company’s expanding partnerships program.

Provide in-house legal counsel for procurement, supply chain, logistics, operations and real estate across North America. Draft, review, and negotiate vendor and service agreements, manage vendor disputes and pre-litigation issues, support M&A due diligence, develop contracting templates and playbooks, and advise on operational risk, compliance, and strategic transformation initiatives.

Supports litigation attorneys with evening electronic court filings, document drafting and formatting, court-rule compliance, redactions, exhibits, and page stamping. Tracks filings requiring signatures, manages overflow requests, coordinates with a remote support team, and handles administrative tasks including timesheets, expenses, and travel bookings. The role is remote after a 30-day in-office onboarding period and requires Pacific Time evening hours.

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.

Own the full contract lifecycle from intake through execution, including drafting, reviewing, redlining, negotiating, and tracking commercial agreements. Partner with Sales, Finance, Insurance, and other stakeholders to resolve terms, manage risk, and accelerate deal closure. Identify and escalate legal issues, support counterparties, and improve contracting workflows and processes. The role also includes security awareness compliance and escalation of security risks.

Senior Attorney or Counsel will lead impact litigation, develop legal strategies, conduct trial and appellate work, draft legislative and administrative proposals, provide testimony, engage coalition partners, educate the public, and collaborate across departments to advance LGBTQ+ and HIV-related civil rights. The role requires independent legal judgment, client counseling, advocacy, outreach, and policy expertise, with potential administrative supervision for Counsel-level hires.

Provides practical legal advice on commercial contracts, regulatory compliance, data privacy, employment matters, and vendor and sales agreements. Drafts and negotiates SaaS, technology, consulting, and service contracts; supports procurement, sales, and HR teams; monitors global legal developments; and advises on compliance. Leads adoption of automation, AI, and legal technology to improve legal operations and supports scalable processes for a fully remote technology company.

Directs legal claims recovery services involving bankruptcy preference and avoidance actions under Sections 547, 550, and 502. Oversees demand letters, complaints, defense analyses, settlements, mediations, litigation support, case tracking, client and counsel communications, and administrative staff. Personally manages a high-volume caseload, evaluates transaction data and defenses, coordinates portfolio activities, and ensures timely filings, service, settlements, and fund recovery. Requires substantial corporate bankruptcy or restructuring experience and strong Excel proficiency.

Leads Legal and Compliance operations, including process improvement, legal technology, contract lifecycle management, outside counsel and vendor oversight, budgeting, reporting, insurance administration, risk tracking, and cross-functional projects. The role develops scalable workflows, dashboards, procedures, and knowledge systems while supporting compliance and efficient legal service delivery in a biopharmaceutical environment.

Leads GreenLight’s legal and compliance function, focusing on workforce compliance, worker classification, employment law, commercial contracts, international legal coordination, product compliance, privacy, fraud prevention, and responsible AI. Advises leadership, manages outside counsel, supports escalations and investigations, translates regulations into scalable processes and product controls, and strengthens contracting, partner oversight, and compliance operations.

Provides execution-level legal support for Telix Manufacturing Solutions, drafting and negotiating manufacturing services, quality, supply, and related commercial agreements. The role handles contract disputes, compliance issue-spotting, process improvements, templates, workflows, and collaboration with Operations, Quality, Procurement, Finance, and Commercial teams. Candidates need legal qualification and at least six years of relevant commercial, manufacturing, supply chain, transactional, or life sciences legal experience.

Senior Legal Counsel serving as Kit’s in-house expert for product, privacy, data, AI, compliance, commercial contracts, intellectual property, and customer security matters. The role advises product, engineering, sales, security, and executive teams; manages GDPR and data compliance; supports security questionnaires; and builds scalable legal playbooks, intake processes, templates, and self-service guidance. The position requires strong U.S. and European privacy law knowledge, commercial judgment, and the ability to operate independently in a remote technology company.

Provides senior legal support for complex software transactions, master services agreements, reseller and alliance arrangements, vendor contracts, and consulting agreements. Advises business, product, engineering, technology, and leadership teams on software, data, AI-enabled products, emerging AI regulations, and responsible AI frameworks. Drafts and negotiates agreements, develops legal strategies, supports process improvements, monitors legal developments, and delivers strategic counsel across North American business units.

Provides senior legal and executive administrative support to the Legal Department. Responsibilities include preparing governmental registrations, insurance applications, trust and estate documents, invoices, expense reports, correspondence, presentations, and legal filings. The role also maintains filing systems, coordinates meetings and conferences, manages deadlines, and handles confidential information while supporting corporate governance and department operations.

Provides broad corporate legal support across governance, commercial and technology contracts, litigation, privacy, cybersecurity, product development, and regulatory risk. Drafts and negotiates SaaS, licensing, vendor, data processing, and trader agreements; manages outside counsel, litigation, subpoenas, corporate records, and legal research. Advises leadership and cross-functional teams, supports privacy and security incidents, and delivers internal legal and compliance training.

Senior Counsel will support commercial, product, compliance, privacy, corporate, and AI-related legal matters. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating SaaS and commercial agreements, advising on privacy, security, compliance, and emerging AI regulations, managing legal templates and playbooks, supporting corporate governance and intellectual property, and implementing legal technology and automation tools. The role requires a U.S.-based attorney with substantial in-house SaaS or technology experience and active bar membership.

Negotiate complex commercial agreements and intellectual property licenses, partnering with sales, customer success, and professional services teams. Develop contract templates, playbooks, policies, processes, and performance metrics to accelerate deal velocity. Advise leadership on commercial, IP, data protection, and regulatory matters; use AI to improve legal workflows and mentor junior team members in a fast-growing, fully remote company.

Supports employment attorneys on complex labor, benefits, and human resources legal matters. Conducts legal research, monitors legislation, supports litigation and agency filings, coordinates outside counsel, manages legal tracking systems and document production, drafts employment documents and policies, and collaborates with HR on employee relations inquiries. Provides analysis, recommendations, project management, and process improvements while maintaining confidentiality and independently handling routine legal tasks.