Top Remote Senior Level Legal Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead and independently manage complex commercial, construction defect, insurance defense, and subrogation litigation from inception through trial. Serve as lead trial counsel, develop litigation strategy, provide case valuations, mentor junior attorneys, collaborate with claims partners, and leverage litigation technology to achieve cost-effective outcomes aligned with client expectations.

Manage e-Discovery projects, ensuring client satisfaction through effective project management strategies and leading cross-functional teams, using Relativity Analytics and legal expertise.

Manage global legal project budgets and pricing, ensuring compliance and efficiency across multi-jurisdictional client engagements, while integrating AI solutions.

Provide pro-bono legal counsel for nonprofit formation and compliance: advise on entity choice, draft formation and governing documents to secure tax-exempt status, file formation and registration documents, protect name and registered agent decisions, obtain permits/registrations, and support an initial fundraising campaign.

Handles Employment Practice Liability claims from investigation through resolution, including coverage analysis, liability evaluation, negotiation, litigation management, reporting, and settlement. Collaborates with defense counsel, legal leadership, reinsurers, business partners, witnesses, and other stakeholders. Presents claim trends and significant exposures, attends proceedings when needed, ensures timely referrals and updates, and maintains compliance with company policies and applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

Supports the General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, and legal department with SEC reporting, securities compliance, corporate governance, board and committee activities, annual meetings, M&A diligence and closings, entity management, corporate records, outside counsel coordination, and legal documentation. Maintains filing calendars, governance materials, legal-entity records, and confidential information while managing multiple deadlines in a highly regulated public-company environment.

Provides corporate legal counsel to senior management, the Board, and business leaders on governance, SEC and Nasdaq compliance, public-company disclosures, and securities laws. Leads or supports mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and strategic transactions, including diligence, documentation, approvals, closings, and integration. Manages outside counsel, conducts legal research, advises on corporate and commercial matters, and improves legal processes, templates, and playbooks.

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.

Provide strategic employment-law counseling to the People team across the employee lifecycle, including multistate compliance, investigations, disputes, litigation, accommodations, compensation, terminations, and employment documentation. Manage outside counsel and agency claims, develop policies and training, and advise on employee data privacy. Support adjacent privacy, regulatory, ERISA, commercial contracting, advertising, and litigation matters while applying AI tools to legal research, drafting, and analysis.

Oversee mortgage compliance, licensing, renewals, NMLS filings, continuing education, policies, training, advertising reviews, regulatory monitoring, audits, and examinations. Advise leadership and mortgage professionals on federal and state requirements, licensing, disclosures, compensation, referrals, fair lending, privacy, AML/BSA, and information security. Support new-state expansion, regulatory submissions, risk mitigation, and cross-functional compliance initiatives.

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.