Top Senior Legal Jobs in Houston, TX

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

Provides legal secretarial and administrative support to multiple attorneys in state and federal civil litigation and insurance defense. Responsibilities include preparing and filing court documents, managing calendars and litigation deadlines under Texas rules, coordinating with at least three attorneys, maintaining organized case materials, and handling correspondence and administrative tasks independently in a fast-paced, in-office environment.

Provides litigation and administrative support to multiple attorneys in a fast-paced insurance defense practice. Responsibilities include preparing and filing legal documents, managing calendars and deadlines, coordinating hearings and depositions, maintaining case files, organizing exhibits, processing correspondence, and communicating with clients, courts, opposing counsel, and vendors.

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.

Own commercial legal work, including drafting and negotiating enterprise technology agreements, SaaS licenses, partnerships, reseller arrangements, procurement contracts, and data processing agreements. Advise on AI product terms, data rights, intellectual property, cybersecurity testing permissions, liability, and risk allocation. Partner with Sales, Finance, Product, Engineering, and Security, while building scalable legal processes, templates, playbooks, and training. The role requires independently leading complex negotiations and supporting a growing technology startup.

Evaluate AI-generated legal and compliance work products, including documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks, against domain-specific quality rubrics. Assess accuracy, rigor, factual correctness, aesthetics, and presentation quality, then provide clear, structured written feedback. This is a fully remote, hourly independent-contractor engagement with flexible scheduling and weekly payments.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Leads litigation, legal policy, and advocacy strategy affecting pharmaceutical innovation, drug pricing, access, and reimbursement. Advises senior leaders and business functions, manages complex disputes and government investigations, oversees outside counsel and budgets, engages government and industry stakeholders, and monitors legal and regulatory developments. Requires substantial trial and appellate litigation experience, policy judgment, executive presence, and collaboration across a highly regulated pharmaceutical environment.

Provide business-oriented legal guidance on U.S. broker-dealer regulation, digital assets, payments, privacy, product launches, marketing, onboarding, regulatory engagement, agreements, policies, and disputes. Monitor SEC, FINRA, CFTC, FinCEN, and OFAC developments; conduct legal research; advise cross-functional teams; and manage litigation, arbitration, outside counsel, claims, and discovery.

Leads Hazel Health’s in-house legal and enterprise compliance functions. Advises on healthcare regulation, telehealth, corporate governance, contracts, privacy, security, employment, risk, and investigations. Builds legal operating systems, templates, playbooks, compliance controls, and matter-management processes while reducing outside-counsel spend. Manages specialized counsel for complex matters and provides candid guidance to executives and the Board.

Administer and optimize contract lifecycle management, AI-assisted legal review, eBilling, and outside counsel systems. Configure workflows, templates, clause libraries, approval routing, integrations, reporting, and user training. Develop legal technology processes, dashboards, KPIs, prompt libraries, and knowledge repositories; support AI governance and cross-functional enablement. Improve contract turnaround times, system adoption, data integrity, compliance, invoice workflows, billing guideline adherence, accrual reporting, and legal spend analytics.

Review and edit deposition transcripts for grammar, formatting, legal accuracy, consistency, confidentiality, and compliance with company and industry standards. Communicate effectively with internal teams, manage multiple assignments independently, and deliver polished transcripts reliably and on time as a remote 1099 contractor. Familiarity with AI transcription platforms is beneficial, and training is provided on proprietary software.

Serve as Freshpaint’s first in-house legal leader, advising the CEO and cross-functional teams on commercial contracting, privacy, data protection, compliance, employment, corporate governance, financing, equity, and intellectual property. Build scalable legal templates, playbooks, workflows, and risk-management processes; negotiate customer, vendor, partner, and technology agreements; embed privacy-by-design practices; and manage outside counsel and legal spend.

Oversee and finalize legal documents governing data sharing between Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership members and a trusted third party. Collaborate with CMS, HFPP leadership, partner engagement teams, and private payer partners on agreements, compliance, and negotiations. Present to management, support partner relationships, and ensure legal requirements are met for data governance and sharing.

Provide strategic legal counsel to global and U.S. teams on commercial and strategic agreements, corporate governance, compliance, intellectual property, privacy, security, and product matters. Negotiate customer and vendor contracts, develop templates and playbooks, manage contract and governance systems, support M&A and fundraising, and coordinate outside counsel. Advise business leaders, review marketing and product materials, and partner with compliance teams to address legal and regulatory requirements.

Provide legal guidance on global payment processing, fintech regulation, money movement, licensing, compliance, and digital innovation. Draft and negotiate agreements with payment providers, banks, card networks, vendors, and partners. Advise on KYC/KYB, AML, sanctions, entity structuring, market expansion, chargebacks, settlements, reserves, and emerging technologies. Collaborate with product, technology, operations, and management teams to launch compliant payment products and address legal risks.

Build and run legal operations: implement contract lifecycle and document management systems, design intake/process workflows, support compliance (AML/KYC, sanctions, regulatory filings), manage corporate governance and entity administration, liaise with outside counsel, and help develop AI-enabled legal workflows alongside the General Counsel.