Top Senior Legal Jobs in Detroit, MI

Lead employment, privacy, and security legal matters for a remote mental-health company. Provide practical counsel on worker classification, HIPAA and state privacy compliance, breach response, contracts, and AI-related employment/privacy issues while building policies and processes to support operations.

Provide legal advice and support to Magna Exteriors management on commercial, contract, real estate, employment, M&A, joint ventures and dispute resolution; manage external counsel, coordinate with global legal teams, and participate in compliance training.

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.

The Head of Legal will build the legal function for an AI-driven SaaS company, handling commercial agreements, compliance, and employment law while advising leadership on legal matters.

As a Senior Legal Counsel, you will support capital markets financing transactions, draft legal documents, manage deal flow, and ensure compliance with legal risks.

Senior in-house legal leader overseeing legal, regulatory, compliance, and risk management across a multi-state skilled nursing portfolio in Michigan and Ohio. Advises CEO and executive team, manages litigation and regulatory responses, drafts and negotiates contracts, supports M&A, and leads cross-functional compliance programs and training.

The Lead Legal Counsel will manage commercial agreements, provide strategic legal advice for Lending Partnerships, and support team collaboration. This role requires experience in technology transactions and complex negotiations.

The Legal Operations Specialist supports Legal & Compliance initiatives by managing technology, optimizing operations, and driving strategic projects across departments, focusing on AI and data-driven decision-making.

The Senior Legal Counsel will work closely with AI and Engineering teams, translating legal complexities into practical solutions, ensuring compliance with AI regulations, and advising on AI-related legal strategies.

The role involves creating insights on AI in legal departments, advising clients, and collaborating on strategies for implementing AI technologies.

Lead and scale Legal and Compliance functions, manage a 3–4 person team, own contract lifecycle and Ironclad CLM workflows, build compliance programs (MNPI, privacy, SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA), advise leadership, collaborate cross-functionally, and create policies, training, and controls to support growth.

Manage construction defect litigation and complex third-party claim files, perform coverage analysis, manage outside counsel, conduct legal research and file audits, advise on negotiations/mediations, recommend reserves/payments, and support policy form review and claims reporting to senior management.

Lead, draft, negotiate, and close commercial agreements (SaaS, licensing, partnerships). Provide end-to-end legal support for high-value transactions, assess and mitigate legal risk, build contract playbooks and templates, collaborate cross-functionally, monitor legal developments, and support dispute resolution.

Manage Legal, Risk & Compliance operations: intake, prioritization, workflow design, trackers for litigation/subpoenas, payment processing, knowledge systems, nonprofit regulatory research, contract intake, and vendor cost-effectiveness. Advise on compliance implications, support document productions and filings, and improve processes and policies to reduce risk.

Provide paralegal support for litigation from inception through discovery and trial, manage litigation files and calendars, perform legal research and trial preparation, and administer a high volume of contracts including tracking, initial review, drafting routine agreements, and maintaining contract databases. Assist OGC attorneys with transactions, closings, regulatory analysis, and other legal tasks.

Provide expert legal review and create realistic scenarios for training AI on US finance transactions, including private equity, cross-border M&A, LBOs, fund formation, regulatory filings, and deal structuring. Work 40 hours/week as an independent contractor, complete a resume screen and short assessment, and produce high-quality training data to support future project selection.

Act as the JD-systems bridge: establish client trust in AI, support commercial sales, design legal decision workflows, and lead evaluation teams of paralegals/nurse consultants to validate audit-ready AI outputs.

Provide in-house legal guidance to the Fundraising, Product, and Engineering teams, focusing on marketing, product development, and privacy regulations.

Own commercial contracting, privacy and data-protection (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA) programs, corporate governance, IP/open-source policy, and telecom/AI regulatory posture. Be the in-house legal function: build playbooks, support Sales/Product/Engineering, and manage outside counsel to keep deals and product shipping moving quickly.

Lead the legal function: own commercial contracting, stand up privacy and data-protection programs, advise Sales/Finance/Product/Engineering, manage corporate governance and equity matters, set IP/open-source and AI governance posture, and manage outside counsel while building playbooks to enable fast business operations.

Lead Legal Operations and Legal Tech to redesign workflows, implement and optimise CLM and AI-enabled tooling, build knowledge systems and dashboards, manage budgets and outside counsel spend, and drive cross-functional transformation to scale a lean Legal & Compliance function.

Serve as the first point of contact for inbound legal, compliance, and operational requests. Triage issues, provide preliminary guidance, draft and manage routine commercial agreements, improve legal intake and CLM workflows, build playbooks and self-service tools, and pilot AI-enabled legal automation. Partner with cross-functional teams and attorneys to scale Legal operations and support corporate and governance tasks.

The Director of Commercial Legal leads all aspects of commercial contracting and legal support, ensures efficient deal execution, and mitigates legal risks associated with customer and partner agreements, focusing on SaaS and software negotiations.

The Sr. Legal Counsel will provide legal advice on contracts related to the energy storage business, negotiate various agreements, and manage litigation and dispute resolutions.

The Senior Legal Counsel will draft and negotiate various legal agreements, support HR legal compliance, advise on regulations, and enhance contractual templates.