Top Legal Jobs in Kansas City, MO

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.

Lead a remote library and research team delivering legal, regulatory, and competitive research to attorneys. Oversee client relationships, implement research workflows and tools, govern digital resources, champion adoption of AI-powered legal technologies, and manage projects, budgets, vendors, and staff development to ensure timely, accurate insights.

Provide in-house counsel on product, IP, and marketing matters across product development lifecycle: support patent prosecution and portfolio management, open-source licensing compliance, brand protection, commercial contract drafting for AI/IP, product launch and regulatory governance, legal research and diligence, and backup trade compliance analysis. Collaborate with engineering, product, and external counsel to translate technical concepts into legal strategies.

As a Legal Scopist, your responsibilities will include transcribing legal documents, scoping materials for readability, meeting deadlines, maintaining confidentiality, and collaborating with team members to ensure quality work.

Provides practical legal support across commercial contracts, corporate governance, subsidiary management, M&A diligence and integration, IP, insurance, employment matters, compliance, and legal risk management. Reviews and negotiates technology and commercial agreements, maintains corporate records and contract templates, coordinates outside counsel, and advises cross-functional teams. The role also develops AI-enabled contract intake, review, approval, storage, and renewal workflows in a remote-first, multi-subsidiary environment.

Corporate Counsel will draft and negotiate commercial agreements, support US and UK sales teams, manage vendor contracts, advise on product design, compliance, data protection, corporate governance, and contracting models. The role will maintain legal templates and review guides, improve legal processes, and provide practical business-oriented advice across the organization. This is a remote position requiring a JD, state bar membership, and at least two years of legal experience.

Manage a litigation portfolio focused on single-plaintiff consumer finance matters, including FCRA, FDCPA, TCPA, and state consumer protection claims. Supervise outside counsel, support regulatory investigations, conduct legal research, advise business stakeholders on litigation and compliance risks, oversee subpoenas and legal holds, develop risk mitigation strategies, monitor litigation metrics, and provide training. The role requires practical guidance across student loan servicing operations and evolving federal and state legal requirements.

The role involves executing legal processes for sales, negotiating complex agreements, collaborating with multiple internal teams, and improving legal documentation for a cloud-based service company.

As a Smart Contract Legal Architect, you will translate legal frameworks into Solidity, define rights compliance, and engage with stakeholders in digital rights enforcement.

The Legal Operations Director will streamline legal processes, oversee legal technology, and enhance operational performance through strategic initiatives and metrics analysis.

Leads the regulatory legal function and manages attorneys advising on digital care delivery, pharmacy and laboratory operations, healthcare technology, AI, and FDA-regulated products. Provides strategic counsel to executives, manages legal risk, develops regulatory strategies, and supports global growth. Builds and mentors the legal team while advising on healthcare regulations including telehealth, corporate practice of medicine, pharmacy law, laboratory services, Stark and Anti-Kickback laws, and state and federal standards.

Own Dispatch’s day-to-day legal function as a hands-on commercial attorney. Responsibilities include negotiating enterprise SaaS agreements, MSAs, order forms, DPAs, security addenda, privacy and data-sharing arrangements, employment agreements, vendor contracts, and other operational matters. The role partners with Sales, Product, Engineering, Security, Finance, People, and executives; builds scalable legal templates and playbooks; supports compliance processes; manages outside counsel; and establishes the legal infrastructure for company growth.

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.

Lead GiveWell’s legal function as its primary legal decision-maker, developing legal strategy, overseeing nonprofit compliance, managing contracting, and advising executives and the Board. Build and lead a scalable legal team and modernize legal administration through technology and automation. Provide strategic leadership for Grants Administration, guide complex grant structures, and partner cross-functionally on employment, privacy, security, intellectual property, governance, international expansion, and operational risks.

As a Freelance Attorney with Rocket Lawyer, you will provide legal advice remotely to clients, leveraging your expertise in various legal areas and ensuring customer satisfaction.

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.

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.

Build and run the holding companys day-to-day legal function across portfolio companies: intake and triage, contract template management, outside counsel coordination, routine commercial contract negotiation, entity governance, post-acquisition legal integration, and escalation of specialist matters.

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.

Assist in launching and maintaining venture capital firms globally, managing legal and operational matters while collaborating with partners and clients.

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.

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 accurate, timely legal support on consumer-facing matters; handle complex client inquiries across channels with professionalism and empathy; serve as escalation point; create and update scripts/procedures; assist project managers; monitor case health, identify errors, and implement resolutions.

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.

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.