Top Legal Jobs in Buffalo, NY

Provides in-house legal counsel across privacy, cybersecurity, AI, SaaS contracts, technology transactions, intellectual property, trademarks, copyright, marketing compliance, and product development. Reviews and negotiates agreements, advises on privacy and AI regulations, supports security incidents and ISO/SOC audits, manages outside counsel, guides product and marketing teams, and develops legal policies, playbooks, training, and compliance processes.

Supports attorneys and law firm operations by managing calendars, deadlines, case files, pleadings, discovery indexes, evidence, exhibits, legal documents, billing, and client or witness communications. Drafts and proofreads correspondence and legal filings, researches laws and regulations, maintains filing systems, and improves administrative workflows. The role requires strong organization, communication, writing, multitasking, and legal documentation skills in a fast-paced, on-site environment.

Supports SoFi’s Litigation and Arbitration group by managing service-of-process intake, subpoenas, threatened and filed matters, legal correspondence, litigation tracking, invoices, vendors, and legal support workflows. Maintains accurate case records, coordinates with attorneys and outside counsel, supports complex legal requests, and ensures timely responses while handling confidential information and multiple deadlines.

Provides administrative, client-service, documentation, records-retrieval, and case coordination support in a personal injury law firm. The role assists Case Managers and Litigation Paralegals, communicates with clients and third parties, organizes medical and legal evidence, maintains case files, and supports scheduling and follow-up. It includes structured training and mentorship, with potential advancement to Case Manager within approximately 6–12 months.

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.

Provides administrative and legal support to the health system’s contracting and transactional legal functions. Responsibilities include calendar and travel coordination, preparing and circulating documents, managing contract and case files, tracking signatures and execution, maintaining legal databases, conducting vendor sanction and registration checks, organizing discovery and due diligence materials, searching legal records, and training personnel on contract management systems.

Own Kovo’s legal and compliance function as its sole attorney, supporting fintech product design, regulatory strategy, licensing, bank partnerships, privacy, BSA/AML/KYC, fraud policy, disputes, audits, and marketing review. Build new consumer financial products with minimal regulatory obligations, automate recurring legal operations using AI agents, manage outside counsel, and represent the company with regulators, banks, partners, and auditors.

Support attorneys and startup clients with venture financings, entity formations, equity plans, cap table administration, corporate housekeeping, and startup-side M&A. Manage diligence, closing logistics, resolutions, records, and client communications while using AI-native workflows to improve drafting and deal processes.

General Legal seeks U.S.-barred attorneys for future opportunities across technology transactions, employment, data privacy, financial regulation, blockchain, cryptocurrency, litigation, IP, corporate, and venture capital. Attorneys will deliver sophisticated legal work using AI-native workflows, advise high-growth companies, communicate directly with business stakeholders, and work independently in a remote-first environment. Relevant substantive experience is required, while technology-company experience, process improvement, mentoring, and subject-matter leadership are preferred.

Leads legal operations transformation and enablement, including legal technology architecture, AI-enabled workflows, contract lifecycle management, process optimization, metrics, vendor management, change management, and budgeting. Builds scalable contracting infrastructure, improves self-service and legal intake, reduces outside counsel reliance, partners with IT and enterprise teams on technology delivery, and manages legal operations staff while supporting commercial and procurement contracting.

Leads Timber’s internal legal strategy and compliance framework, including contracts, intellectual property, corporate governance, marketplace agreements, regulatory risk, and legal documentation. Advises the founding team, coordinates with outside counsel, supports fundraising diligence, maintains corporate records, and establishes reusable legal templates and processes. This is a remote, equity-only, hours-as-needed founding-team role with potential to become full-time as the company grows.

Counsel will support global operations and procurement by drafting and negotiating vendor, technology, SaaS, software licensing, professional services, and other commercial agreements. The role will advise on privacy, information security, regulatory, insurance, data protection, contract disputes, vendor governance, and compliance. Counsel will also develop procurement processes, standard terms, templates, and playbooks while providing practical legal and strategic business advice in a high-volume contracting environment.

Senior Counsel will support global operations and procurement by drafting and negotiating vendor, technology, SaaS, software licensing, professional services, facilities, marketing, and AI agreements. The role advises on privacy, information security, regulatory, insurance, data protection, vendor governance, disputes, and risk mitigation. It will also develop procurement processes, standard terms, templates, and playbooks while providing practical commercial advice to cross-functional stakeholders in a high-volume, global SaaS environment.

Coordinates student placement, enrollment, and legal compliance for special education programs. Reviews IEPs and student records, manages enrollment contracts and notices, maintains audit-ready files, tracks deadlines, supports hearings and placement agreements, and collaborates with admissions, school leaders, districts, attorneys, advocates, and internal teams to ensure timely, compliant placements.

Supports international legal operations across LATAM, including drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, legal and regulatory research, litigation support, corporate housekeeping, compliance projects, certification processes, and regulator communications. Maintains contract repositories and legal libraries, tracks deadlines and certifications, coordinates with external counsel, testing laboratories, vendors, and regulators, and prepares reports for leadership. Requires a law degree, active bar membership, fluent English and Spanish, strong organization, and attention to detail.

Senior Legal Counsel will manage private-market investment transactions, including SPV diligence, offering reviews, fund structuring, securities regulatory analysis, investment-document drafting and negotiation, side letters, closings, and product counseling. The role partners with business, product, engineering, operations, and compliance teams while building scalable legal templates, playbooks, and workflows. Candidates need U.S. bar membership, a JD, and 4–7 years of relevant funds, securities, or capital markets experience.

Analyzes state healthcare and health insurance legislation and regulations; prepares bill analyses, policy briefs, legislative updates, comment letters, talking points, and strategy memos. Maintains legislative tracking records in iTrak, supports state advocacy priorities, responds to member inquiries, participates in policy committees, and contributes to policy toolkits and research repositories.

Senior Legal Counsel will own commercial contracting, product counseling, corporate governance, entity management, employment matters, litigation, disputes, and subpoena responses. The role partners across product, engineering, operations, compliance, finance, and HR; builds legal processes, templates, playbooks, and intake workflows; and provides practical guidance for a growing regulated financial technology company.

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.

Owns legal request intake and routing for a lean in-house legal team. Responsibilities include preparing public-sector deal paperwork, managing insurance and corporate compliance calendars, maintaining legal technology and templates, developing AI-enabled workflows, reviewing routine legal documents, producing operational scorecards, and handling sensitive matters such as investigations, litigation, M&A, and criminal justice data.

The Commercial Legal Director will lead complex technology and commercial transactions, negotiate SaaS, licensing, partnership, marketing, and services agreements, and develop scalable legal contracting standards. The role advises teams on AI, intellectual property, privacy, security, and regulatory issues; improves contracting workflows using Ironclad and AI-enabled tools; and partners with senior stakeholders across product, engineering, finance, marketing, and people operations.

Serve as a senior legal advisor to Product, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, and Operations teams. Advise on consumer financial products, banking, lending, payments, licensing, partnerships, and evolving regulatory requirements. Negotiate commercial agreements, oversee complex matters involving BaaS, NACHA, BSA/AML, fraud, privacy, and servicing, and translate regulatory developments into practical business guidance. Build scalable legal processes and improve workflow efficiency through technology, AI, and outside counsel.

Manage employment litigation and discovery matters from case initiation through production. Responsibilities include legal holds, case setup, document collection and review, e-discovery workflows, discovery meetings, project plans, stakeholder coordination, reporting, quality control, and process improvement. The role partners with attorneys, HR, IT, compliance, outside counsel, and client stakeholders to deliver defensible, timely discovery outcomes while managing multiple concurrent matters.

Lead legal work for private-market investment products, including SPV and fund structuring, securities offerings, investor terms, partnerships, regulatory analysis, and product counsel. Draft and negotiate transaction documents, supervise outside counsel, manage deal execution, advise cross-functional teams, and build scalable legal templates, playbooks, and workflows. The role requires significant funds, securities, and private-markets experience and reports to the Head of Legal.