Top Senior Legal Jobs in Houston, TX

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.

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

Lead design and implementation of AI-assisted legal operations and knowledge-management workflows. Manage daily legal department operations, project-manage cross-functional company initiatives, evaluate and deploy AI tooling, and track adoption and efficiency. Drive process improvements and stakeholder alignment to scale legal support for a fast-growing healthcare technology company.

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.

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.

Provide strategic legal advice for complex, high-value projects using alternative project delivery models. Lead contract drafting/negotiation, assess and mitigate legal/commercial risks, support proposal pursuits, advise on claims and dispute resolution, and train/project teams while developing templates and risk-management resources.

Provide comprehensive support in the management of litigation, employment, and investigation matters, including document production and administrative tasks.

Leads commercial, privacy, and product legal functions for a cloud technology company. Drafts and negotiates complex SaaS, partnership, reseller, and technology agreements; advises on global privacy, data protection, AI, intellectual property, and product development issues; develops contracting processes and playbooks; partners with cross-functional teams; and manages, mentors, and develops legal professionals.

Leads litigation, eDiscovery, intellectual property, DMCA, and brand protection operations. Coordinates legal holds, document collections, productions, outside counsel, vendors, trademark and patent administration, copyright enforcement, domain management, and marketplace investigations. Develops scalable workflows, SOPs, dashboards, KPIs, and automation while partnering with Engineering, Security, IT, Product, Marketing, and Customer Experience teams.

Provide strategic employment law advice across multiple jurisdictions; lead complex advisory and contentious employee matters; implement scalable legal solutions; drive cross-functional initiatives; build team knowledge resources and governance; manage external local counsel and oversee complex employment projects.

Provide day-to-day legal support to commercial, marketing, and functional teams across Dental Solutions and Health Information Systems. Review routine commercial and operational matters, support marketing/claims and contracting activities, maintain legal templates and processes, deliver training, coordinate with Regulatory, IP, Privacy, and Compliance, and help ensure timely, compliant business execution.

Author and verify rigorous multiple-choice legal assessment items for AI benchmarks across multiple legal specialties. Create clear, self-contained questions with one correct answer and nine plausible distractors, classify difficulty, provide structured solution explanations and references, and review/edit questions for legal accuracy and clarity. Work remotely, asynchronously, as an independent contractor, committing 10+ hours weekly.

Lead the Legal Strategy team to create and present Strategic Recovery Roadmaps for clients with SBA EIDL debt. Provide consultative, client-facing legal and financial strategy, coordinate handoffs to partner attorneys/CPAs, support Sales and Marketing with insights, and manage complex bankruptcy, restructuring, asset protection, and tax-related cases.

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.

Provide U.S. regulatory legal counsel on crypto and financial matters, coordinate with agencies and internal teams on investigations, enforcement, AML/sanctions compliance, remediation, and regulatory filings, and advise on evolving U.S. regulatory developments affecting the business.

Lead legal support for product development, AI governance, IP and global privacy. Advise product, engineering, and design teams; manage global IP portfolio; run privacy compliance (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA); draft and negotiate data processing and privacy terms; manage outside counsel and legal budgets; deliver training and cross-functional guidance to reduce risk and enable product innovation.

Manage full contract lifecycle including drafting, reviewing, negotiating, executing, and maintaining contracts. Route approvals and signatures, manage expirations, support template and clause library development, assist with corporate filings and subpoena responses, advise stakeholders on contracting best practices and regulatory compliance, and oversee departmental operations in leaders absence.

Provide commercial legal support for sales, finance, product, and engineering: draft, review, and negotiate SaaS, partner, vendor, and NDAs; identify data, IP, and privacy risks; build templates and playbooks; use AI-assisted contract tools to streamline workflows; coordinate with data acquisition, product, and privacy teams.

Provide senior-level legal expertise to design, evaluate, and benchmark AI systems for legal tasks. Review AI outputs, create task specifications and reference solutions, develop evaluation frameworks and scoring guidelines, and give structured feedback. Collaborate with researchers, engineers, and program teams to translate professional legal judgment into consistent evaluation standards.

Provide contract and document support for land acquisition, title examination, and land finance. Organize and track real estate and commercial transaction data, prepare spreadsheets and reports, and manage document workflows. Support attorneys with time-sensitive legal tasks in a home-building or land development context.

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.

Provide hands-on regulatory and commercial legal advice for crypto, web3, fintech and payments products. Advise product teams on design, licensing, compliance (AML/KYC, sanctions), marketing/promotions, and cross-jurisdiction regulatory risks. Lead licensing/submission processes, coordinate local counsel, draft and negotiate commercial contracts, respond to regulators and stakeholders, and build scalable playbooks to enable compliant product launches.

Provide strategic commercial legal advice for complex customer-facing transactions across North America. Draft, review, and negotiate SaaS, licensing, services, DPA/BAA, and related agreements. Partner with sales and cross-functional teams to manage legal risk, improve playbooks and processes, lead training, manage outside counsel, and drive deal velocity while ensuring compliance.

Provide senior-level paralegal support to in-house attorneys across practice areas, managing legal matters, performing substantive legal work, drafting and reviewing contracts, conducting legal research, coordinating matter intake and document management, liaising with outside counsel and business partners, and supporting regulatory, litigation, and governance processes within a large healthcare system.