Top Senior Legal Jobs in Houston, TX

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Leads Legal and Compliance operations, including process improvement, legal technology, contract lifecycle management, outside counsel and vendor oversight, budgeting, reporting, insurance administration, risk tracking, and cross-functional projects. The role develops scalable workflows, dashboards, procedures, and knowledge systems while supporting compliance and efficient legal service delivery in a biopharmaceutical environment.

Leads GreenLight’s legal and compliance function, focusing on workforce compliance, worker classification, employment law, commercial contracts, international legal coordination, product compliance, privacy, fraud prevention, and responsible AI. Advises leadership, manages outside counsel, supports escalations and investigations, translates regulations into scalable processes and product controls, and strengthens contracting, partner oversight, and compliance operations.

Provides execution-level legal support for Telix Manufacturing Solutions, drafting and negotiating manufacturing services, quality, supply, and related commercial agreements. The role handles contract disputes, compliance issue-spotting, process improvements, templates, workflows, and collaboration with Operations, Quality, Procurement, Finance, and Commercial teams. Candidates need legal qualification and at least six years of relevant commercial, manufacturing, supply chain, transactional, or life sciences legal experience.

Senior Legal Counsel serving as Kit’s in-house expert for product, privacy, data, AI, compliance, commercial contracts, intellectual property, and customer security matters. The role advises product, engineering, sales, security, and executive teams; manages GDPR and data compliance; supports security questionnaires; and builds scalable legal playbooks, intake processes, templates, and self-service guidance. The position requires strong U.S. and European privacy law knowledge, commercial judgment, and the ability to operate independently in a remote technology company.

Provides broad corporate legal support across governance, commercial and technology contracts, litigation, privacy, cybersecurity, product development, and regulatory risk. Drafts and negotiates SaaS, licensing, vendor, data processing, and trader agreements; manages outside counsel, litigation, subpoenas, corporate records, and legal research. Advises leadership and cross-functional teams, supports privacy and security incidents, and delivers internal legal and compliance training.

Senior Counsel will support commercial, product, compliance, privacy, corporate, and AI-related legal matters. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating SaaS and commercial agreements, advising on privacy, security, compliance, and emerging AI regulations, managing legal templates and playbooks, supporting corporate governance and intellectual property, and implementing legal technology and automation tools. The role requires a U.S.-based attorney with substantial in-house SaaS or technology experience and active bar membership.

Negotiate complex commercial agreements and intellectual property licenses, partnering with sales, customer success, and professional services teams. Develop contract templates, playbooks, policies, processes, and performance metrics to accelerate deal velocity. Advise leadership on commercial, IP, data protection, and regulatory matters; use AI to improve legal workflows and mentor junior team members in a fast-growing, fully remote company.

Provides strategic legal support for global procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, engineering, and operations teams. Drafts and negotiates complex supply, manufacturing, licensing, logistics, and services agreements; advises on supplier performance, continuity, regulatory compliance, trade controls, intellectual property, and risk allocation. Partners with cross-functional stakeholders on domestic content programs, government incentives, disputes, contracting processes, templates, playbooks, and operational risk management.

Supports employment attorneys on complex labor, benefits, and human resources legal matters. Conducts legal research, monitors legislation, supports litigation and agency filings, coordinates outside counsel, manages legal tracking systems and document production, drafts employment documents and policies, and collaborates with HR on employee relations inquiries. Provides analysis, recommendations, project management, and process improvements while maintaining confidentiality and independently handling routine legal tasks.

Supports attorneys and business partners on complex legal matters involving insurance, healthcare, technology, AI, privacy, and operations. Conducts legal research, contract review, legislative monitoring, case management, document production, and knowledge management. Coordinates with outside counsel, analyzes legal requirements, recommends risk-mitigation strategies, manages legal projects, and improves legal processes while providing status updates and escalation support.

Manages trademark clearance searches, USPTO prosecution filings and Office Action responses, portfolio deadlines, TTAB and enforcement support, and client and foreign associate communications. Maintains accurate docketing records, prepares search reports and infringement materials, and independently manages multiple client matters in a remote, technology-forward environment.

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

Senior Legal Counsel serving as Kit’s sole in-house legal expert, advising on privacy, data, AI, compliance, product, intellectual property, commercial contracts, customer security requirements, and scalable legal operations. The role partners with executive, product, engineering, security, sales, finance, and people teams; develops playbooks and self-service processes; oversees GDPR and data compliance; supports security questionnaires; and reduces reliance on outside counsel.

Serve as Kit’s sole in-house legal expert, leading privacy, data, AI, compliance, product counsel, commercial contracts, intellectual property, and customer security support. Advise executive and cross-functional teams, oversee GDPR and data compliance, respond to security questionnaires, and create scalable legal playbooks, templates, intake processes, and self-service guidance. The role reduces reliance on outside counsel while enabling product development and business growth across SaaS, digital commerce, recommendations, and advertising.

Advise ads product, engineering, marketing, and sales teams on privacy, consumer protection, content regulation, and product development matters. Counsel the advertising business on GDPR, CCPA, international regulations, content policies, and risk management. Monitor regulatory trends and collaborate cross-functionally to support compliant ad-tech products and services.

Provides senior corporate, regulatory, commercial, healthcare, privacy, and intellectual property legal counsel. Drafts and negotiates customer, vendor, licensing, data use, and other business agreements; advises on product compliance, contracts, marketing materials, and risk strategies; manages legal projects and outside counsel; and supports federal, state, and industry compliance activities.