Top Legal Jobs in Houston, TX

Leads the legal department while providing practical counsel on SaaS transactions, customer negotiations, product matters, corporate initiatives, employment issues, compliance, procurement, and vendor risk. Negotiates and maintains contracts, oversees the contract lifecycle management system, advises stakeholders on legal risks, manages outside counsel, mentors attorneys, supports due diligence and integrations, and develops legal templates, training, and processes.

Partner with in-house legal teams to drive adoption of Legora's AI-native platform: advise GCs and legal ops, run pilots and onboarding, deliver demos and training, gather user insights to influence product, and develop scalable legal ops playbooks to optimise contract, matter, and compliance workflows.

As Lead Legal Engineer, you will lead complex client engagements, manage a team of Legal Engineers, and drive adoption and measurable outcomes across clients.

As a Legal Engineer, you will collaborate with legal teams to optimize use of the Legora platform, enhance client relationships, and contribute to product development through insights and training.

Partner with tax and legal advisory teams to drive adoption of Legora's AI-native platform: run pilots, onboard users, deliver demos and training, capture user insights to inform product, document best practices, and act as a trusted advisor across Big Four and professional services clients.

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.

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.

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.

Provides senior-level legal administrative, corporate governance, and legal operations support to the Chief Legal Officer and Legal Department leadership. Coordinates Board and Committee meetings, governance records, proxy and SEC filing support, document execution, legal invoices, budgets, reporting, SharePoint repositories, calendars, travel, and departmental projects. Maintains confidentiality while liaising with executives, directors, outside counsel, auditors, and internal stakeholders.

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.

The Legal Intern will support the Legal Department with administrative tasks, report compilation, and special projects involving contracts, real estate, litigation, risk management, and department operations. The role requires strong communication, initiative, time management, flexibility, attention to detail, computer proficiency, and the ability to work 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday.

Manage Life360’s patent and trademark portfolios, including prosecution, enforcement, and outside counsel relationships. Advise on intellectual property matters involving patents, trademarks, trade secrets, licensing, open-source software, product development, and commercial transactions. Draft and negotiate IP-related agreements, support M&A due diligence, review marketing materials for compliance, and counsel cross-functional teams on strategic IP risks and opportunities.

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.

Supports DESRI’s Legal team on renewable energy project development, acquisitions, financings, construction, and operations. Responsibilities include legal research, transaction and project document review and preparation, due diligence, and assistance with commercial and portfolio-related legal matters. The intern will collaborate with legal and business teams, gain exposure to project finance and transactional law, and present work to colleagues at the end of the 10-week program.

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.

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.

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.

Provide legal support for U.S. operations on contracts, corporate governance, and regulatory compliance. Draft, review, and negotiate government and commercial agreements; manage FOIA requests, corporate filings, and board governance; support claims, litigation, subpoenas, and dispute resolution with external counsel; develop contracting templates and legal guardrails; liaise with operations, central services, risk teams, and CBRE legal. May include SOX control responsibilities.

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.

Provide corporate, commercial, compliance, and cross-border legal support for a growing international AI datacenter infrastructure company. Lead entity management, corporate governance, fundraising diligence and negotiations, contract drafting and negotiation, legal operations and CLM modernization, outside counsel management, and Spanish-English document translation. Partner with executives and local counsel across multiple jurisdictions and help build scalable processes and templates.