Top Legal Jobs in Chicago, IL

Senior Legal Counsel serving as Kit’s sole in-house legal expert, advising on privacy, data, AI, compliance, product, intellectual property, commercial contracts, customer security requirements, and scalable legal operations. The role partners with executive, product, engineering, security, sales, finance, and people teams; develops playbooks and self-service processes; oversees GDPR and data compliance; supports security questionnaires; and reduces reliance on outside counsel.

Serve as Kit’s sole in-house legal expert, leading privacy, data, AI, compliance, product counsel, commercial contracts, intellectual property, and customer security support. Advise executive and cross-functional teams, oversee GDPR and data compliance, respond to security questionnaires, and create scalable legal playbooks, templates, intake processes, and self-service guidance. The role reduces reliance on outside counsel while enabling product development and business growth across SaaS, digital commerce, recommendations, and advertising.

Advise ads product, engineering, marketing, and sales teams on privacy, consumer protection, content regulation, and product development matters. Counsel the advertising business on GDPR, CCPA, international regulations, content policies, and risk management. Monitor regulatory trends and collaborate cross-functionally to support compliant ad-tech products and services.

Manages legal and compliance operations, including contracts, regulatory filings, corporate governance, entity management, audits, outside counsel, legal technology, and workflow improvements. Supports securities-law compliance, regulated financial products, digital-asset matters, transactions, policies, and business-team guidance under counsel supervision.

Develop AI-powered legal workflows, prompts, playbooks, agents, automations, and sample documents for contracting, counseling, and governance. Partner with in-house legal teams to understand workflows, implement solutions, deliver customer and internal training, support post-launch adoption, collaborate with sales as a legal subject matter expert, and provide product feedback. The role also applies LegalOn internally and translates insights into customer guidance.

Supports Muon’s Legal and Contracts team across commercial space law, regulatory compliance, government contracts, corporate matters, and export compliance. Responsibilities include maintaining compliance matrices, researching legal and regulatory topics, drafting written summaries, assisting with agreements and filings, and documenting export records. The role is a full-time remote summer internship offering mentorship and exposure to satellite, aerospace, national security, and government contracting matters.

Provides senior corporate, regulatory, commercial, healthcare, privacy, and intellectual property legal counsel. Drafts and negotiates customer, vendor, licensing, data use, and other business agreements; advises on product compliance, contracts, marketing materials, and risk strategies; manages legal projects and outside counsel; and supports federal, state, and industry compliance activities.

Owns regulatory filings, compliance calendars, KYC and AML processes, legal contract administration, corporate housekeeping, governance records, and investor reporting across UTOPIA’s fund manager and venture studio entities. Coordinates with outsourced compliance professionals, external counsel, regulators, administrators, and internal stakeholders to ensure obligations, filings, registers, and documentation remain accurate, complete, and timely.

Provide commercial and government-contracting legal support across the contract lifecycle, including drafting, negotiation, compliance, risk review, disputes, and contract administration. Advise on FAR, DFARS, procurement rules, state regulatory requirements, flow-down provisions, cybersecurity obligations, and government disclosures. Develop legal templates, playbooks, approval processes, and compliance procedures while partnering with Sales, Finance, Operations, Procurement, and Information Security in a remote, international environment.

Develop and improve AI-powered legal workflows for contract review, drafting, and negotiation. Collaborate with product, engineering, service delivery, and client teams; create training and enablement materials; monitor legal AI and contract automation markets; test prompts and prototypes; evaluate workflow quality and efficiency; and advise stakeholders on practical AI applications in legal services.

The Legal Operations Manager will manage contract lifecycles, negotiate commercial agreements, coordinate clinical and corporate legal matters, maintain governance and equity records, support financing diligence, oversee outside counsel and legal spend, administer contract management systems, and track intellectual property, compliance, and regulatory documentation. The role also develops scalable legal processes, workflows, templates, and reporting for a growing medtech company.

Leads legal execution for private-market transactions, including deal structuring, investment documents, SPV and fund formation, side-letter negotiations, escrow and settlement, securities compliance, and investor disclosures. Builds scalable legal infrastructure, templates, and workflows while partnering with business development, product, finance, operations, compliance, and outside counsel. This hands-on role manages transaction lifecycles from term sheet through closing and advises on complex securities and regulatory matters.

Develop and refine AI-powered legal and contract workflows in collaboration with product, engineering, service delivery, and clients. Create training and enablement materials, monitor legal AI and contract automation markets, evaluate workflow quality, experiment with prompts and prototypes, and advise stakeholders on practical AI applications. The role requires transactional legal experience, hands-on use of legal AI tools, strong communication, and hybrid work in the New York City office three days per week.

Translates evolving regulations into product specifications, truth sets, regulatory memos, demos, and benchmark criteria. Reviews AI outputs for accuracy, relevance, and completeness; leads root-cause analyses and collaborates with engineering on corrective actions. Engages customers and prospects, explains regulatory challenges, supports industry events, and develops sector-specific demonstrations. Requires strong regulatory analysis, communication, legal or compliance expertise, and the ability to work effectively with complex products in a fast-paced environment.

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 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.

Own the commercial contracting lifecycle across intake, drafting, negotiation, approvals, execution, and repository management. Administer and scale Ironclad workflows, templates, playbooks, permissions, reporting, migrations, and automation. Independently negotiate NDAs, prepare agreement markups, manage SLAs, coordinate cross-functional approvals, maintain contract data quality, and improve processes through workflow automation and AI tools.

Support Fetch’s privacy and data governance program under Corporate Counsel, Privacy. Responsibilities include documenting data discovery exercises, mapping data flows, maintaining data inventories, reviewing legal and technical documentation, and communicating project updates. The three-month remote internship begins in January 2027 and requires 12–15 hours per week. The intern will gain exposure to privacy compliance, data governance, and in-house legal operations at a consumer technology company.

Provides legal and regulatory guidance on digital assets, tokenized securities, and SEC-regulated entities. Supports securities-law compliance, product launches, transactions, regulatory examinations, audits, policies, and external counsel management. Drafts and negotiates commercial agreements while monitoring developments affecting digital assets and securities markets.

Own the operational backbone of the Legal function, including intake, matter tracking, contract lifecycle management, corporate records, governance calendars, compliance administration, policy management, legal playbooks, outside-counsel coordination, and cross-functional legal projects. The role also manages legal technology, employee training, reporting, and support for privacy, security, AI governance, accessibility, SOC 2, and CMMC initiatives.

Leads complex data center, infrastructure, procurement, lease, colocation, facilities, and operations agreements for a global cloud platform. Negotiates transactions, advises cross-functional teams on risk and performance, supports international expansion, and develops scalable legal templates, playbooks, and approval frameworks. Requires substantial in-house infrastructure transaction experience, a J.D., and active U.S. bar admission.

Provides enterprise legal leadership and oversees compliance strategy, regulatory risk, governance, audit readiness, investigations, contracting, and executive reporting for a multi-state healthcare organization. Advises senior leadership and the board, translates healthcare regulations into operational guidance, manages outside counsel, and scales the legal and compliance function.

Provides legal support for corporate and commercial matters, including contract drafting, negotiation, confidentiality agreements, regulatory compliance, corporate policies, and document management. The role advises on business practices, mitigates legal risk, develops legal training materials, and collaborates with business teams in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.

Serves as primary legal partner to global functions, advising on corporate, commercial, fundraising, nonprofit, employment, privacy, and operational matters. Structures and negotiates partnerships, funding arrangements, technology agreements, and data-sharing agreements. Leads legal strategy for data partnerships, MNO data, remote enablement, and cross-country initiatives. Builds legal templates and playbooks, supports charitable giving and public affairs compliance, coordinates external counsel, and develops practical approaches to novel regulatory issues.

Serve as a senior legal partner to Gong’s go-to-market organization. Lead complex enterprise SaaS, AI, licensing, professional services, and strategic commercial negotiations; advise Sales and business leaders on legal risk and deal strategy; develop contracting templates and playbooks; improve legal processes; collaborate cross-functionally; and mentor junior lawyers.