Top Legal Jobs in Chicago, IL

The Vice President, Legal will lead healthcare regulatory and commercial legal matters for an AI-enabled diagnostic imaging company. Responsibilities include negotiating healthcare, technology, data use, vendor, and strategic partnership agreements; advising on Anti-Kickback, Stark Law, HIPAA, FDA, physician arrangement, and AI-related issues; supporting corporate, employment, compliance, and governance matters; developing legal processes and playbooks; and managing outside counsel.

Leads litigation, legal policy, and advocacy strategy affecting pharmaceutical innovation, drug pricing, access, and reimbursement. Advises senior leaders and business functions, manages complex disputes and government investigations, oversees outside counsel and budgets, engages government and industry stakeholders, and monitors legal and regulatory developments. Requires substantial trial and appellate litigation experience, policy judgment, executive presence, and collaboration across a highly regulated pharmaceutical environment.

Serve as DuckDuckGo's senior legal leader and strategic advisor, overseeing global privacy, regulatory and competition matters, managing the legal team, directing outside counsel, supporting corporate governance, M&A and financing, and partnering with Product, Engineering, and Policy on AI, data practices, and new product launches.

Provides day-to-day legal support to the U.S. property and casualty insurance business. Responsibilities include drafting policy forms and endorsements, supporting product strategy and innovation, managing regulatory filings and inquiries, reviewing insurance distribution agreements, advising on marketing and licensing requirements, handling complaints and examinations, and conducting legal research.

Manage end-to-end commercial contracts for customers and partners: draft, review, redline, and negotiate SaaS and licensing agreements; partner with Sales to unblock deals; maintain templates and playbooks; ensure security, privacy, and compliance alignment; support HR/employment documentation; coordinate external counsel and assist with disputes and compliance initiatives. On-site in Chicago.

Leads Northern Trust’s global technology and procurement legal practice, including AI governance, emerging technology, complex vendor contracting, outsourcing, SaaS, cloud, data, and software agreements. Advises executives on legal and regulatory risks in financial services, develops AI adoption strategies and legal review frameworks, negotiates high-value technology transactions, maintains contracts and playbooks, and manages technology and procurement attorneys.

Leads legal pricing strategy, matter budgeting, alternative fee arrangements, and external law firm negotiations. Advises senior legal and business stakeholders using financial and matter-performance insights, evaluates AI impacts on pricing and service delivery, and drives adoption of AI-enabled pricing tools. Collaborates across Legal, Finance, Legal Technology, and Procurement on transformation initiatives while delivering training, change management, market analysis, governance, and executive-ready recommendations.

Provide administrative support to a commercial litigation team: draft and e-file court documents, manage electronic case files and dockets, coordinate calendars, billing, client intake, and travel, and meet critical litigation deadlines while supporting attorneys and team workflows.

Director-level attorney reporting to the General Counsel, responsible for negotiating customer and commercial agreements, advising business operations on legal and regulatory compliance, supporting international operations, and developing customer-focused legal solutions. The role requires strategic problem-solving, cross-functional collaboration, strong communication, independent judgment, and the ability to manage complex legal matters in a demanding environment.

Provide business-oriented legal guidance on U.S. broker-dealer regulation, digital assets, payments, privacy, product launches, marketing, onboarding, regulatory engagement, agreements, policies, and disputes. Monitor SEC, FINRA, CFTC, FinCEN, and OFAC developments; conduct legal research; advise cross-functional teams; and manage litigation, arbitration, outside counsel, claims, and discovery.

Leads day-to-day legal department operations, including workflows, matter and document management, budgets, invoicing, vendors, outside counsel, and contract lifecycle oversight. Supports real estate transactions, corporate governance, entity management, compliance, legal research, claims, litigation, subpoenas, and insurance matters. Oversees the law clerk program and mentors legal talent while working closely with the General Counsel and physicians.

Leads Hazel Health’s in-house legal and enterprise compliance functions. Advises on healthcare regulation, telehealth, corporate governance, contracts, privacy, security, employment, risk, and investigations. Builds legal operating systems, templates, playbooks, compliance controls, and matter-management processes while reducing outside-counsel spend. Manages specialized counsel for complex matters and provides candid guidance to executives and the Board.

Administer and optimize contract lifecycle management, AI-assisted legal review, eBilling, and outside counsel systems. Configure workflows, templates, clause libraries, approval routing, integrations, reporting, and user training. Develop legal technology processes, dashboards, KPIs, prompt libraries, and knowledge repositories; support AI governance and cross-functional enablement. Improve contract turnaround times, system adoption, data integrity, compliance, invoice workflows, billing guideline adherence, accrual reporting, and legal spend analytics.

Review and edit deposition transcripts for grammar, formatting, legal accuracy, consistency, confidentiality, and compliance with company and industry standards. Communicate effectively with internal teams, manage multiple assignments independently, and deliver polished transcripts reliably and on time as a remote 1099 contractor. Familiarity with AI transcription platforms is beneficial, and training is provided on proprietary software.

Support attorneys with legal research, document preparation (briefs, memos, reports), case management, and regulatory monitoring. Analyze environmental law issues, maintain organized case files, collaborate on case strategies, and assist in preparing materials for client matters.

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.

Perform legal transcription remotely under a federal contract. Responsibilities require accurately transcribing audio while maintaining excellent grammar, punctuation, listening, and comprehension standards. Contractors must complete at least 200 audio minutes weekly, submit timely invoices, and maintain reliable equipment and internet access. The role requires U.S. citizenship, identity documentation, two years of transcription experience, a minimum typing speed of 55 words per minute, and willingness to undergo a Public Trust background investigation.

Serve as Freshpaint’s first in-house legal leader, advising the CEO and cross-functional teams on commercial contracting, privacy, data protection, compliance, employment, corporate governance, financing, equity, and intellectual property. Build scalable legal templates, playbooks, workflows, and risk-management processes; negotiate customer, vendor, partner, and technology agreements; embed privacy-by-design practices; and manage outside counsel and legal spend.

Provide comprehensive administrative support to attorneys in a Private Wealth Planning practice: schedule and manage client execution meetings, handle billing/time-entry, maintain document and filing systems, draft routine correspondence, arrange travel/calendars, and deliver high-quality client service.

Part-time internship for 2L/3L law students to read and analyze judicial opinions, verify AI/ML-extracted data against source materials, identify errors and edge cases, and collaborate with legal researchers and ML engineers to improve data quality.

Oversee and finalize legal documents governing data sharing between Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership members and a trusted third party. Collaborate with CMS, HFPP leadership, partner engagement teams, and private payer partners on agreements, compliance, and negotiations. Present to management, support partner relationships, and ensure legal requirements are met for data governance and sharing.

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 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 strategic legal counsel to global and U.S. teams on commercial and strategic agreements, corporate governance, compliance, intellectual property, privacy, security, and product matters. Negotiate customer and vendor contracts, develop templates and playbooks, manage contract and governance systems, support M&A and fundraising, and coordinate outside counsel. Advise business leaders, review marketing and product materials, and partner with compliance teams to address legal and regulatory requirements.

Provide legal guidance on global payment processing, fintech regulation, money movement, licensing, compliance, and digital innovation. Draft and negotiate agreements with payment providers, banks, card networks, vendors, and partners. Advise on KYC/KYB, AML, sanctions, entity structuring, market expansion, chargebacks, settlements, reserves, and emerging technologies. Collaborate with product, technology, operations, and management teams to launch compliant payment products and address legal risks.