Top Legal Jobs in Minneapolis, MN

Leads legal support for Optum Health acquisitions and strategic transactions, including deal structuring, negotiation, diligence, governance approvals, risk mitigation, and post-close matters. Manages and develops a legal team, coordinates enterprise stakeholders, oversees outside counsel, establishes scalable workflows, and provides strategic, business-oriented guidance to business development, finance, and operations leaders.

Lead export and sanctions legal counsel for Medtronic’s global trade compliance program. Advise on EAR, OFAC sanctions, export controls, restricted-party screening, anti-boycott requirements, licensing, audits, investigations, litigation, M&A due diligence, and voluntary disclosures. Develop compliance policies, interpret regulatory changes, mitigate cross-business risks, support training, and partner with legal, supply chain, compliance, and business teams globally.

Provides legal counsel to Global IT and cybersecurity leadership on governance, regulatory compliance, risk management, incident response, third-party cybersecurity, privacy, and secure technology transformation. Develops cybersecurity legal frameworks and advises on investigations, audits, enforcement, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, and contractual risk mitigation. Partners with product security, compliance, communications, privacy, and enterprise risk teams across a global healthcare technology organization.

Lead the company’s legal and compliance function across cannabis regulatory compliance, corporate governance, real estate, transactions, licensing, zoning, government affairs, employment matters, and litigation readiness. Manage internal attorneys, paralegals, and outside counsel while advising executives and clients. Build audit-ready compliance frameworks, oversee regulatory strategy across multiple markets, and negotiate leases and transactions. The role is fully on-site in Edina and requires hands-on legal work, senior leadership, and expertise in complex regulated industries.

Senior Minnesota-barred counsel will manage legal operations and compliance, including entity and cannabis license renewals, commercial lease review, regulatory filings, audit-ready records, contracts, corporate documents, insurance tracking, and paralegal mentorship. The role is fully onsite in Edina and requires close collaboration with executives in a fast-moving regulated industry, with daily use of AI legal tools and strong privilege protections.

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.

The Associate Director oversees licensing strategy, manages a team, ensures regulatory compliance, and represents the organization in licensing matters.

Provides legal and compliance guidance on global import and customs matters, including country of origin, valuation, tariff classification, trade remedies, FTAs, CTPAT, customs inquiries, investigations, audits, and regulatory changes. Partners with legal, supply chain, compliance, and business teams to mitigate global trade risks, develop controls and standards, support due diligence and litigation, and deliver employee training.

Supports corporate legal and transaction services, including syndication documentation, entity governance, licensing, UCC filings, legal records, workflow automation, process improvement, and legal technology projects. Partners cross-functionally to improve compliance, efficiency, reporting, documentation, and risk management while independently handling complex matters and advising legal and business stakeholders.

Supports the legal team by processing and reviewing levies, garnishments, bankruptcy filings, subpoenas, probate claims, and court documents. Responsibilities include account research, document retrieval and redaction, legal correspondence, docket monitoring, deadline verification, and maintaining accurate case records. The role requires strong attention to detail, analytical ability, communication skills, and proficiency with Excel and multiple software systems.

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.

Provide corporate and commercial legal support for strategic partnerships, acquisitions, asset purchases, acqui-hires, and digital-asset transactions. Draft and negotiate commercial and transaction agreements, conduct legal due diligence, advise on regulatory and intellectual property issues, support partner integrations, and develop contracting processes and legal playbooks. Collaborate with business, product, senior stakeholders, and external counsel across multiple jurisdictions.

Serve as lead commercial counsel for the go-to-market organization, negotiating complex enterprise, strategic, partnership, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and AI agreements. Advise sales and business stakeholders on risk, regulatory, privacy, and commercial issues; build scalable legal processes, templates, playbooks, risk frameworks, CLM tools, and AI-enabled workflows; support quote-to-cash automation; and partner with senior leaders on strategic initiatives.

Provides telephonic legal guidance and resources to clients on family law, tenant rights, consumer issues, and other everyday legal matters. Researches changing legislation, supports development of legal assistance strategies and services, and completes special projects. Requires a licensed attorney with a JD, broad legal knowledge, strong communication and customer-service skills, critical thinking, multitasking ability, and computer proficiency.

Provides senior legal counsel on AI, product development, marketing, legal technology, technology transactions, and emerging regulations. Advises Product, Engineering, Marketing, Partner, Customer Success, and Strategy teams; drafts policies and agreement terms; negotiates vendor, open-source, collaboration, and customer agreements; supports product launches and go-to-market strategies; and translates complex AI laws into practical business guidance.

Supports the legal team with contract lifecycle management, contract drafting and review, records maintenance, M&A due diligence, closing documentation, legal billing, expense accruals, litigation recordkeeping, and cross-functional legal operations projects. The role also manages contract repositories, deal files, legal invoices, and administrative requests while handling confidential information and improving processes.

Entry-level Legal Assistant supporting an in-house legal and compliance team at a life sciences company. Responsibilities include legal research, corporate records, equity administration, litigation support, contract intake and redlining, compliance and privacy coordination, due diligence, filings, and legal AI tool adoption. The role is suited to a recent graduate planning to attend law school and requires strong organization, writing, analytical skills, discretion, and proficiency with Microsoft Office and AI tools.

Edit and optimize high volumes of AI-assisted legal marketing content for U.S. law firms. Ensure legal accuracy, SEO best practices, persuasive conversion-focused copy, consistent tone, citations, and formatting. Collaborate with writers and SEO teams, manage multiple deadlines, and maintain quality while staying current on SEO and AI writing trends.

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.

Provides civil legal advice, brief services, referrals, and support to low-income and vulnerable clients through a legal helpline. Conducts eligibility screening, consultations, legal research, issue analysis, and prepares pleadings and letters for pro se litigants. Maintains case records, uses legal and client-service technology, collaborates with community partners, and participates in continuing education and organizational activities.

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.

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.

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.