Top Legal Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Manage Helix’s legal operations infrastructure, including request intake, workflows, SOPs, legal technology platforms, metrics, contract reviews, renewals, vendor coordination, outside counsel, IP docketing, and corporate filings. The role partners cross-functionally with legal, finance, procurement, and business leaders to improve processes, administer systems, triage matters, and maintain efficient, organized legal operations.

Owns the end-to-end contract and legal document lifecycle, including maintaining MSAs and templates, redlining routine agreements, managing document control and data rooms, coordinating due diligence, tracking renewals, and supporting contract execution. Drafts investor, equity, trademark, and corporate filing documents while serving as an internal legal and paralegal resource. Partners with Finance, Compliance, Sales, People Operations, leadership, and outside counsel, escalating higher-risk legal matters as needed.

Paid 10-week legal internship working alongside in-house counsel on content distribution agreements, depositions, hearings, legal research, and memorandum drafting across entertainment-related practice areas.

Provide freelance English-to-French legal translation and editing for a U.S. government judiciary client. Responsibilities include translating or editing legal content using accurate U.S. legal terminology, applying CAT tools and Trados, maintaining strong organization and communication, and completing on-demand assignments during U.S. Eastern Time hours.

Provide freelance English-to-German legal translation and/or editing services for a U.S. Government judiciary client. Translate legal content using accurate U.S. legal and technical terminology, apply CAT tools and Trados, maintain excellent language quality, and support ongoing, as-needed assignments. Applicants must be native German speakers, U.S. citizens, available during most 9–5 EST hours, and willing to undergo security clearance processing and fingerprinting.

Own and operate Arctic Wolf’s global privacy program across multiple jurisdictions. Develop privacy policies, data maps, assessments, and compliance processes; advise Product and Engineering on privacy by design; support incident response, data subject requests, commercial agreements, and regulatory inquiries. Manage outside counsel and privacy vendors while providing practical guidance, training, and scalable playbooks.

Leads legal operations, corporate governance, entity management, securities compliance, transaction support, contract workflows, legal technology, and compliance initiatives. Oversees legal operations teams, Board and committee materials, corporate records, filings, document systems, and process improvements. Partners with executive leadership, Finance, HR, and external counsel to build scalable legal department processes.

Review and assess public sector, legal, and go-to-market documents, providing structured feedback focused on quality, accuracy, relevance, and adherence to guidelines. The role requires strong analytical, written communication, document review, and attention-to-detail skills. It is a fully remote independent contractor position with flexible scheduling and weekly payments, open to applicants in the United States, Europe, the UK, and Canada.

Advise ClassPass and Playlist on product compliance throughout the development lifecycle, focusing on consumer protection, AI regulation, privacy, data protection, marketing, and platform regulations. Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Security, sales, marketing, and operations teams; monitor global regulatory developments; maintain privacy records and assessments; draft policies and agreements; support negotiations, M&A, training, and other legal projects.

Reviews and evaluates legal, commercial, compliance, and contract documents for accuracy, completeness, clarity, risks, and adherence to standards. Provides structured, objective feedback and recommendations using professional judgment and established guidelines. Requires independent remote work, strong analytical and communication skills, attention to detail, and familiarity with commercial agreements, compliance materials, and document review.

Review and evaluate legal, grant, ESG, policy, and compliance documents for accuracy, quality, completeness, clarity, and relevance. Provide structured feedback, identify errors and compliance concerns, compare outputs against standards, and document recommendations. Work independently on flexible, fully remote evaluation projects using professional judgment and established guidelines.

Provides broad in-house legal support across employment matters, litigation, disputes, commercial procurement, and SaaS, partnership, licensing, and services contracts. Advises HR and cross-functional teams, manages outside counsel and litigation strategy, mitigates legal risks, supports negotiations, and improves legal processes, policies, and templates. Requires strong legal judgment, communication, organization, and prioritization skills.

Supports the Legal Department by drafting, reviewing, revising, and coordinating commercial contracts and related legal documents. Performs first-level contract review, identifies non-standard provisions, researches contractual and regulatory issues, prepares redlines and summaries, and coordinates with attorneys and business stakeholders. Maintains contract records, workflows, renewals, templates, and clause libraries in contract management systems while responding to internal process questions and supporting efficiency initiatives.

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.

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.

Provide day-to-day corporate and commercial legal support, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts. Manage cross-border matters involving the US, UK, and EU; independently handle routine legal issues; build legal processes; and coordinate external counsel for complex or jurisdiction-specific matters. Provide practical, commercially minded advice to the business.

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 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 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.

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.

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 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.