Top Legal Jobs in Houston, TX

Supports client pilots, onboarding, and training for an AI-powered legal platform. Designs and evaluates legal AI use cases, gathers user insights, translates feedback into product improvements, and documents deployment best practices. The role requires a completed J.D., strong communication, analytical ability, technological curiosity, and adaptability. It is an in-person position based in Houston.

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.

Full-time, in-person legal internship supporting Pilot Company’s corporate legal team. Responsibilities include legal research and writing, analyzing complex legal issues, providing recommendations, collaborating across departments, and improving legal processes. Applicants must be current law students with strong legal research and writing skills, Microsoft Suite proficiency, and excellent communication abilities. The internship runs June 7 through August 13, 2027, in Houston, Texas.

Represents detained immigrants in removal proceedings before immigration courts, USCIS, and potentially federal courts. Conducts client screenings, maintains case files, advises peers and pro bono attorneys, and mentors attorneys, interns, volunteers, and support staff. Requires regular visits with detained clients, legal training, stakeholder coordination, and travel between offices, detention facilities, and courts. The role serves individuals who may have experienced trauma and family separation.

Supports attorneys and litigation paralegals with personal injury and property damage cases. Responsibilities include obtaining and organizing medical records and bills, auditing liens, preparing deposition and trial notebooks, drafting subpoenas and other court documents, e-filing in Texas, maintaining case files and calendars, communicating with clients and opposing counsel, coordinating transportation, and interpreting for Spanish-speaking clients.

Supports Axiom Space’s in-house Legal team with commercial contract drafting and review, regulatory research, government contracting matters, compliance tracking, corporate governance documentation, intellectual property and privacy research, and legal department process improvement. The onsite summer internship runs June 1 through August 20 in Houston and requires strong legal research, writing, organization, communication, and analytical skills.

Supports an in-house legal team with Pension Risk Transfer transactions by drafting, reviewing, proofreading, and managing contracts. Coordinates regulatory filings, approvals, deadlines, records, and stakeholder communications. Researches ERISA, pension, annuity, and insurance issues while collaborating with internal teams, brokers, plan sponsors, and external partners.

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.

Provides legal counsel for North American principal investments, structured origination, energy and commodities trading. Leads acquisitions, joint ventures, financings, project and infrastructure investments, commercial agreements, trading documentation, governance, regulatory matters and transaction execution. Coordinates internal stakeholders and outside counsel while drafting and negotiating complex agreements, managing risks, and delivering commercially practical advice.

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.

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.

Supports federal asset forfeiture cases for the United States Attorney’s Office by reviewing investigative materials, researching laws and public records, evaluating probable cause, preparing discovery and legal filings, organizing exhibits, managing witnesses, summarizing proceedings, and assisting with settlements and trial preparation. The role also involves data analysis for reports and trial exhibits, attorney support, training personnel, and maintaining organized case files.

Supports U.S. Attorney’s Office attorneys in federal asset forfeiture cases by reviewing investigations, evaluating probable cause, conducting legal research, preparing discovery and pleadings, organizing case files, managing witnesses, preparing trial exhibits, and supporting settlements and pretrial activities. The role also involves legal writing, data analysis, litigation support, attorney communication, and training personnel.

Leads legal execution for private-market transactions, including deal structuring, investment documents, SPV and fund formation, side-letter negotiations, escrow and settlement, securities compliance, and investor disclosures. Builds scalable legal infrastructure, templates, and workflows while partnering with business development, product, finance, operations, compliance, and outside counsel. This hands-on role manages transaction lifecycles from term sheet through closing and advises on complex securities and regulatory matters.

Directs legal claims recovery services involving bankruptcy preference and avoidance actions under Sections 547, 550, and 502. Oversees demand letters, complaints, defense analyses, settlements, mediations, litigation support, case tracking, client and counsel communications, and administrative staff. Personally manages a high-volume caseload, evaluates transaction data and defenses, coordinates portfolio activities, and ensures timely filings, service, settlements, and fund recovery. Requires substantial corporate bankruptcy or restructuring experience and strong Excel proficiency.

Provides English-to-Korean legal translation and/or editing for judicial and legal materials on a remote, freelance basis. The role requires accurate legal terminology, native-level writing in both languages, knowledge of U.S. legal and judicial terminology, CAT tool experience, strong organization, and deadline management. Assignments are ongoing and on demand, totaling approximately 10 to 15 hours per week, with general weekday availability during Eastern Time business hours.

Drafts, reviews, and negotiates U.S. and international SaaS, cloud, software licensing, services, reseller, and OEM agreements. Advises business teams on commercial risk, licensing, privacy, security, and regulatory matters. Develops contract templates and negotiation playbooks, partners with Sales and cross-functional teams, manages external counsel, monitors legal developments, and supports training and process improvement.