Top Senior Legal Jobs in Philadelphia, PA

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

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.

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.

Provide global employment and labor law counsel to the company and parent, advise on US and international employment issues, labor relations, contracts, investigations, policy development, risk mitigation, and training while working with senior leadership and legal teams.

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.

Provide legal advice to Procurement and Integrated Supply Chain on commercial agreements (SaaS, energy, logistics), manage disputes and investigations, support international matters and M&A due diligence, coordinate with outside counsel, and protect company strategic objectives while reporting to VP, HSE Policy and Deputy General Counsel.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

The Head of Legal Communications will develop strategies for enterprise issues management, collaborate with legal teams, and enhance communication across the firm.

Provide expert legal support for global data center client contracts, focusing on complex commercial leases, triple-net leases, service agreements and gigawatt campus projects. Negotiate and draft contracts, manage contractual risk and compliance, advise leadership, support cross-functional stakeholders worldwide, and develop contract templates and procedures to improve efficiency.

The Senior Director, Legal and Compliance Operations ensures effective implementation of compliance initiatives, policy governance, and operational excellence in compliance practices, while collaborating closely with various functional teams to support business objectives and maintain a culture of integrity.

Provide end-to-end legal support for high-value commercial technology transactions: draft, negotiate, and close SaaS, license, partnership, and vendor agreements; assess and mitigate legal risk; create contract playbooks and templates; collaborate with Sales, Finance, Product, Privacy, Security, and Procurement; monitor regulatory developments; and support dispute resolution.

Provide product-focused legal counsel across the full product lifecycle, advising on AI/ML, privacy, IP, and open-source issues; draft and negotiate technology licensing and integration agreements; support trademark, acquisitions integration, and incident response; help build privacy-by-design practices and shape product legal function as it scales.

Lead and mentor a global contracts team while providing strategic, hands-on legal support for complex international commercial agreements. Advise Sales, Procurement, Product and other stakeholders on SaaS, hardware/software, channel, vendor, privacy, cybersecurity, AI, and regulatory matters. Manage cross-border legal issues, negotiate enterprise contracts, develop templates, deliver training, and escalate critical legal risks to senior leadership.

Interim Head of Legal to advise CEO and execs on commercial contracts, negotiate complex enterprise SaaS deals, support pricing and packaging, counsel the board on governance, lead a small legal/compliance team, and ensure compliance with HITRUST and SOC 2. Hands-on, strategic, business-minded, and comfortable using AI tools.

Part-time senior in-house counsel supporting NORAM (with EMEA backup): draft, review, and negotiate commercial SaaS contracts; advise on GDPR/UK GDPR/CCPA privacy; manage IP and trademark issues; develop templates and playbooks; deliver legal training; balance legal risk with commercial objectives and support sales and customer success teams.