Top Legal Jobs in New Orleans, LA

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.

Manage day-to-day operations of privacy and regulatory compliance programs including policy and documentation maintenance, regulatory monitoring, risk and gap assessments, training, vendor privacy frameworks, incident response, investigations, reporting, and metrics to ensure compliance with HIPAA, federal and state privacy laws, TCPA, FDA, and related regulations.

Part-time legal research intern to read and analyze judicial opinions, verify AI-extracted outputs against source materials, identify errors or edge cases, and collaborate with legal researchers and ML engineers. 10–20 hours/week; ideal for 2L or 3L law students.

Provide legal guidance and marketing compliance review: approve marketing materials for regulatory compliance, draft policies, monitor regulatory changes, perform risk assessments, and deliver compliance training. Support contracts and vendor agreements and report findings to leadership.

Provide legal advisory and transactional support to Corporate & Investment Banking: draft, review and negotiate credit, security and banking documentation; conduct legal due diligence; identify and mitigate legal risk; advise on complex credit and corporate transactions; supervise junior lawyers and manage external law firm relationships.

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.

Review, edit, and audit AI-assisted legal opinions and caselaw content for accuracy. Identify legal issues, determine precedential impact, apply history/treatment lettering, verify source material, meet production targets, resolve complex editorial questions, and suggest guideline or workflow improvements.

Manage day-to-day Legal Department operations, implement processes and workflows, drive process improvements and metrics, coordinate onboarding/training, manage vendor and financial support, maintain knowledge repositories and collaboration sites, support legal technology adoption, and coordinate meetings, logistics, and departmental projects to enable efficient legal services delivery.

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.

Serve as sole legal operations lead across a creative agency group: draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts; manage employment documentation and corporate records; run privacy and compliance programs (GDPR/CCPA); support M&A diligence; build legal templates, workflows, and AI-enabled self-service processes; coordinate with outside counsel and HR/Finance.

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

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.

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.

The Executive Legal Assistant supports high-level administrative tasks including case management, legal research, communication, and organization of case materials in a remote legal environment.

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.

Manage and lead a six-person documentation team for a $2B equipment finance portfolio. Draft, maintain, and negotiate loan and lease documents, streamline closing processes, ensure UCC and lien compliance, audit closed transactions, and support deal structuring and training.

Lead and build Duetto's legal function: implement AI-enabled legal tooling, advise on AI/ML product and data/privacy issues, architect scalable commercial contracting and governance, support PE-driven exit readiness and M&A, manage global employment and external counsel, and integrate legal with cross-functional leadership to reduce risk and enable growth.

Provide legal administrative support, manage document and contract repositories, maintain compliance and entity records, coordinate DocuSign and invoicing, use AI and automation to improve legal workflows, and enable Legal team projects and process improvements.

Serve as fractional Chief Legal Counsel/General Counsel advising alternative asset firms and family offices on securities law, fund formation, regulatory compliance, contracts, transactions, governance, litigation and vendor relationships. Lead fund structuring, investor negotiations, regulatory responses, training, policy development, and special projects while managing outside counsel and legal budgets across US and international jurisdictions.

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 pragmatic, business-focused legal advice and lead commercial contracting for North America. Negotiate customer/vendor agreements, support M&A diligence, manage pre-litigation disputes, develop contract templates and processes, partner with commercial teams, and oversee litigation strategy while improving legal operations and compliance.

Lead North America litigation and employment strategy, advise on employment matters, manage outside counsel and disputes, support risk mitigation and claims handling, partner with HR and business teams, and provide pragmatic legal counsel on contracts, operations, and high-risk matters for the company.

Provide in-house legal counsel for procurement, supply chain, logistics, operations and real estate across North America. Draft, review, and negotiate vendor and service agreements, manage vendor disputes and pre-litigation issues, support M&A due diligence, develop contracting templates and playbooks, and advise on operational risk, compliance, and strategic transformation initiatives.

Serve as the CLO's Chief of Staff and lead Legal Operations: manage a small team and global legal budget, own legal vendor and tech strategy (CLM, e-billing, litigation tools), build dashboards and metrics, drive cross-functional integration, and implement AI-driven automation to improve reporting, decision-making, and operational efficiency across legal, corporate development, and IT.