Top Legal Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Processes subpoenas, writs, levies, and other legal documents while supporting Legal Services operations. Resolves issues with internal and external partners, meets deadlines, follows legal and regulatory procedures, provides customer support, trains less experienced specialists, escalates non-routine matters, and identifies process improvements. The role requires accurate handling of multiple priorities, legal filings across jurisdictions, compliance requirements, and operational systems.

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.

As Commercial Legal Counsel at GitLab, you will negotiate and draft various complex agreements, advise on risk allocation, support public sector transactions, and enhance the legal team's efficiency and training initiatives.

Negotiate delinquent accounts with law firms to secure reduced balances, extended payment terms, or lump-sum settlements. Review legal documents, manage escalated portfolios and client accounts, maintain attorney relationships, meet monthly settlement and compliance goals, and handle high-volume inbound/outbound calls to resolve lawsuits and prevent further legal action.

As Vice President, Legal Commercial, you will lead GitLab's global commercial legal function, advising on strategies, managing a legal team, and overseeing AI governance and contracting.

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.

Build and run AI-first processes for legal e-billing and outside counsel management. Administer Brightflag, manage monthly accruals and vendor onboarding, analyze OC spend using SQL/Snowflake/Looker, produce reports and scorecards, and partner with FP&A, Sourcing, and stakeholders to optimize budgets, forecasting, and outside counsel strategy.

Part-time remote legal internship supporting regulatory and marketing compliance. Conduct FDA/FTC and advertising legal research, review marketing materials, draft memos, assist with contract lifecycle and corporate records, and support policy and training development.

Lead design and implementation of AI-assisted legal operations and knowledge-management workflows. Manage daily legal department operations, project-manage cross-functional company initiatives, evaluate and deploy AI tooling, and track adoption and efficiency. Drive process improvements and stakeholder alignment to scale legal support for a fast-growing healthcare technology company.

Provide legal guidance on healthcare regulatory matters and commercial contracting for payor and clinical partnerships. Advise on corporate practice of medicine, fraud and abuse, telehealth, HIPAA, Medicare/Medicaid, AI clinical governance, and negotiate provider, payor, and commercial agreements to enable compliant growth.

Manages wage and bank garnishments across multiple states by handling employer and bank calls, verifying employment, conducting skip tracing, researching updated contact information, organizing files, and preparing garnishment documents for attorney review. The role requires 75–100 outbound calls daily, inbound call support, and assistance with printing, faxing, and letter generation in a high-volume legal environment.

Provide hands-on regulatory and commercial legal advice for crypto, web3, fintech and payments products. Advise product teams on design, licensing, compliance (AML/KYC, sanctions), marketing/promotions, and cross-jurisdiction regulatory risks. Lead licensing/submission processes, coordinate local counsel, draft and negotiate commercial contracts, respond to regulators and stakeholders, and build scalable playbooks to enable compliant product launches.

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.

Provide day-to-day legal support for a fast-paced tech company: draft and negotiate commercial contracts, advise cross-functional teams (revenue, product, HR, finance, engineering), assist corporate governance and board preparations, support public company readiness, oversee global corporate administration and compliance, and help scale the legal function.

Provides remote administrative and case support for personal injury law firms. Responsibilities include managing electronic case files, medical records, billing, police reports, insurance claims, deadlines, calendars, correspondence, client communication, and provider coordination. The role also prepares case summaries and documentation, supports pre-litigation workflows, performs quality control, and communicates professionally with clients in English and Spanish. Candidates must work independently during U.S. Mountain Time business hours and be located outside the United States.

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 remote administrative and legal support to law firms: manage schedules, coordinate meetings, draft documents, perform legal research, communicate with clients, and maintain organized workflows. Must adapt to legal software and digital tools, multitask, and uphold high attention to detail and professionalism.

Evaluate and review AI-generated legal content for accuracy and quality, answer legal questions, recommend authoritative references, share real-world legal workflows and standards, and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to improve AI performance in legal domains. Part-time, remote contractor role (~10 hours/week).

The role involves fact-checking AI-generated legal marketing content for accuracy and legally sound information while ensuring clarity and SEO optimization, all done remotely.

Build and run legal operations: implement contract lifecycle and document management systems, design intake/process workflows, support compliance (AML/KYC, sanctions, regulatory filings), manage corporate governance and entity administration, liaise with outside counsel, and help develop AI-enabled legal workflows alongside the General Counsel.

Lead a remote library and research team delivering legal, regulatory, and competitive research to attorneys. Oversee client relationships, implement research workflows and tools, govern digital resources, champion adoption of AI-powered legal technologies, and manage projects, budgets, vendors, and staff development to ensure timely, accurate insights.

Provide in-house counsel on product, IP, and marketing matters across product development lifecycle: support patent prosecution and portfolio management, open-source licensing compliance, brand protection, commercial contract drafting for AI/IP, product launch and regulatory governance, legal research and diligence, and backup trade compliance analysis. Collaborate with engineering, product, and external counsel to translate technical concepts into legal strategies.

Lead GoFundMe's global payments legal strategy and advise C-suite on payments, fintech, and financial services matters. Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Risk, and Finance to enable product innovation, regulatory compliance, licensing, and supervisory examinations. Build governance, legal operating models, scalable review processes, and commercial frameworks. Negotiate and counsel on strategic payment partnerships, card/ACH network rules, AML/BSA, KYC/KYB, sanctions, and cross-border regulatory matters to support platform expansion and risk management.

As a Legal Scopist, your responsibilities will include transcribing legal documents, scoping materials for readability, meeting deadlines, maintaining confidentiality, and collaborating with team members to ensure quality work.

Provides practical legal support across commercial contracts, corporate governance, subsidiary management, M&A diligence and integration, IP, insurance, employment matters, compliance, and legal risk management. Reviews and negotiates technology and commercial agreements, maintains corporate records and contract templates, coordinates outside counsel, and advises cross-functional teams. The role also develops AI-enabled contract intake, review, approval, storage, and renewal workflows in a remote-first, multi-subsidiary environment.