Top Legal Jobs in Detroit, MI

Legal Contracts Intern supporting attorneys with commercial agreement drafting, review, redlining, legal research, risk analysis, contract resources, process improvements, and business partner training in an in-house corporate 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.

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.

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.

Leads public-company securities compliance, SEC reporting, capital markets transactions, corporate governance, board support, M&A, strategic investments, equity programs, executive compensation, investor communications, and legal operations. Advises executives and directors, manages external counsel and budgets, and implements legal technology and AI workflows. Requires a J.D., active bar membership, and 10–12+ years of corporate legal experience spanning top-tier law firms and public technology companies.

Provides administrative and operational support to a legal litigation team. Responsibilities include managing legal correspondence and filings, opening and maintaining case records, organizing confidential documents, drafting and proofreading communications, coordinating with attorneys and external counsel, tracking IT support needs, conducting research, and supporting department projects. The role requires strong organization, accuracy, confidentiality, communication, and deadline-management skills in a fully onsite environment.

Supports legal and compliance teams through regulatory research, compliance document review and drafting, audit preparation, documentation management, and monitoring mortgage-industry law and regulatory changes. The internship is fully on-site in Pontiac, Michigan, runs 12 weeks, and requires full-time availability from May 17 through August 6.

Legal Intern supporting corporate attorneys with contract and NDA review, legal research, corporate governance documentation, compliance activities, transaction due diligence, training materials, meetings, and special projects. The role is a 10-week hybrid summer program in Auburn Hills, Michigan, requiring four days onsite weekly.

Progress foreclosure files by preparing and filing legal documents, mailing correspondence, monitoring client websites, responding to clients and vendors, tracking court deadlines, conducting address research, managing file inventories, and communicating case status updates. The role is hybrid in Troy, Michigan and requires accurate data entry, strong organization, customer service, and effective deadline management.

Provides legal support for U.S. and Canadian technical product compliance, product recalls, field actions, product integrity matters, regulatory inquiries, investigations, and corrective actions. Serves as the primary legal liaison with NHTSA, FCC, Transport Canada, and other authorities while monitoring regulatory developments and collaborating globally on product compliance and homologation issues.

Processes and interprets subpoenas served on the bank by attorneys, law enforcement, and government agencies. Reviews legal scope, jurisdiction, deadlines, and risks; coordinates document retrieval and production; communicates with requesters and counsel; conducts legal research; manages court appearance subpoenas; maintains confidential records and legal database entries; invoices requesters; and ensures compliance with federal and state regulations.

Supports the Legal-Compliance-Risk team by reviewing, drafting, coordinating, and tracking client engagement documents, including engagement letters and confidentiality agreements. Manages requests through Ironclad, ServiceNow, email, and related systems; prepares reports; coordinates Risk Management Committee activities; maintains workflow records; and supports higher-risk engagements. The role requires strong organization, proofreading, communication, judgment, confidentiality, and process improvement skills.

Supports client engagement contracting by drafting, reviewing, revising, coordinating, and tracking engagement letters, confidentiality agreements, disclaimers, and related documents. Manages requests through Ironclad and ServiceNow, coordinates stakeholders and approvals, prepares Risk Management Committee materials, maintains workflow records and reports, and supports legal, compliance, and risk operations. Requires strong organization, proofreading, communication, judgment, confidentiality, and process-improvement skills.

Own the full contract lifecycle from intake through execution, including drafting, reviewing, redlining, negotiating, and tracking commercial agreements. Partner with Sales, Finance, Insurance, and other stakeholders to resolve terms, manage risk, and accelerate deal closure. Identify and escalate legal issues, support counterparties, and improve contracting workflows and processes. The role also includes security awareness compliance and escalation of security risks.

Handles complex professional liability claims, especially legal malpractice matters. Responsibilities include evaluating coverage, risk transfer, liability, damages, and reserves; conducting independent investigations; managing litigation and counsel; negotiating settlements; communicating exposures; and developing resolution strategies. The role requires periodic travel for mediations, trials, and related meetings, along with at least seven years of professional liability claims experience and strong legal, negotiation, communication, and technical claims skills.

Supports corporate governance, Board and committee administration, entity maintenance, subsidiary records, Section 16 and SEC filings, D&O questionnaires, compliance processes, audits, corporate insurance, and equity matters. Maintains Diligent and entity-management records, coordinates with outside counsel and service providers, handles confidential information, supports legal projects, and provides administrative assistance to the Legal department.

Lead all legal functions, including product, privacy, commercial, corporate, employment, intellectual property, regulatory, and litigation matters. Advise founders and leadership, shape policy for children’s technology and AI, manage regulators and outside counsel, accelerate contracting, build legal playbooks, lead a small in-house team, apply AI to legal workflows, and oversee M&A, financings, and board matters.

Leads Veeam’s Americas Commercial Legal team while negotiating complex software, SaaS, BaaS, professional services, and channel agreements. Advises Sales and business stakeholders on legal, privacy, regulatory, and commercial risks; serves as escalation point for high-risk matters; and manages, coaches, and develops four to five lawyers. The role also drives contracting consistency, training, process improvement, and collaboration across the global Commercial Legal organization.

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.

Provides freelance English-to-Finnish legal translation and editing for judiciary-related content. Responsibilities include accurately translating legal, judicial, and technical terminology, editing written materials, using computer-assisted translation tools, meeting deadlines, and accepting on-demand assignments of approximately 10–15 hours weekly. Work is remote, with general weekday availability during Eastern Time business hours and potential security clearance processing.

Freelance remote translator/editor providing English-to-Japanese legal translation and editing for judiciary-related content. Responsibilities include accurately applying U.S. legal, judicial, and technical terminology, using computer-assisted translation tools, meeting deadlines, organizing on-demand assignments, and supporting approximately 10–15 hours of work weekly during Eastern Time business hours. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and willing to complete security clearance processing, including fingerprinting.

Provides freelance English-to-Chinese legal translation and editing for judicial and legal documentation. Requires native-level Chinese and English writing, knowledge of U.S. legal and technical terminology, CAT tool experience, strong accuracy, organization, and deadline management. Assignments are remote, ongoing, and on demand for approximately 10–15 hours per week. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and willing to undergo security clearance processing and fingerprinting.

Prepare, edit, and review affidavits of service and nonservice for accuracy, completeness, and legal compliance. Conduct quality assurance, ensure adherence to state and federal filing requirements, finalize documents for electronic filing, collaborate with legal teams and process servers, and adapt to changing procedures and technologies.

Provides practical legal advice on commercial contracts, regulatory compliance, data privacy, employment matters, and vendor and sales agreements. Drafts and negotiates SaaS, technology, consulting, and service contracts; supports procurement, sales, and HR teams; monitors global legal developments; and advises on compliance. Leads adoption of automation, AI, and legal technology to improve legal operations and supports scalable processes for a fully remote technology company.