Top Remote Senior Level Legal Jobs in Peoria, IL

Leads the contracts function for Valiant’s Mission Support business, managing a team and a complex portfolio of U.S. government contracts. Responsibilities include cradle-to-grave contract administration, reviewing awards and modifications, negotiating with government agencies and prime contractors, ensuring compliance, mitigating risk, supporting business development, and coordinating with operations, finance, and legal. The role also oversees staff development and requires expertise in federal acquisition regulations, government contracting practices, and defense-related compliance.

Develop regulatory law evaluation scenarios, reference compliance memoranda, regulatory filings, enforcement responses, and expert rubrics for AI systems. Work spans US and international regulatory frameworks, including financial services, healthcare and FDA, antitrust, privacy and cybersecurity, environmental, and energy regulation. Apply regulatory interpretation, compliance risk assessment, agency interaction, enforcement strategy, and rulemaking expertise.

Own and advise on corporate governance, strategic transactions, investments, restructurings, financings, subsidiary governance, employment and compensation matters. Partner with executives and cross-functional teams, manage outside counsel, draft and negotiate legal documents, assess business and legal risks, and improve corporate legal processes. The role requires independent ownership, strong corporate law expertise, executive communication, and willingness to address novel issues in a fast-moving blockchain company.

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.

Associate General Counsel serving as a legal utility player across commercial contracts, M&A, securities, regulatory, product, and corporate matters. Responsibilities include negotiating agreements, building contract infrastructure, supporting strategic transactions, managing governance and filings, advising cross-functional teams, and partnering with executives and external counsel. The role also establishes scalable legal processes, supports business growth, and provides practical risk guidance in a fast-paced blockchain and fintech environment.

Manage incoming customer contracts from review through execution, assess risk, negotiate terms, escalate exceptions, and maintain contract systems. Build standardized workflows, templates, playbooks, and decision guidelines to scale contract operations. Partner with Legal, Sales, and Finance, support complex agreements, communicate with customers, improve processes, and coach teams on contract fundamentals and escalation paths.

Provides enterprise legal counsel on corporate, commercial, employment, compliance, consumer protection, cybersecurity, data privacy, and litigation matters. Drafts and negotiates contracts, reviews policies and advertising, manages litigation with outside counsel, conducts legal research, and supports mergers, acquisitions, corporate governance, licensing, and strategic business initiatives.

Manages clinical trial contract and budget negotiations with sponsors, CROs, vendors, and research sites. Prepares and evaluates study budgets, cost estimates, amendments, and financial viability analyses; supports site start-up, feasibility, and RFP activities. Collaborates with Clinical Operations, Business Development, Finance, and legal stakeholders while ensuring compliance with protocols, SOPs, GCP, IRB, FDA, and company requirements. Supervises personnel and provides reports and process improvement recommendations.

The Contract Manager will manage the full lifecycle of commercial, clinical, research, vendor, procurement, and technology agreements. Responsibilities include drafting, reviewing, redlining, negotiating, coordinating approvals, maintaining contract records and CLM data, supporting audit readiness, partnering with cross-functional stakeholders, escalating high-risk terms to counsel, and improving contracting processes through automation and AI-enabled tools.

Manage complex commercial agreements throughout their lifecycle, including drafting, reviewing, negotiating, executing, amending, and interpreting contracts. Advise business units on negotiation strategy, contractual risks, and approved positions. Partner with Legal and cross-functional teams, resolve disputes, improve contracting processes and playbooks, maintain contract records and reporting, support SOX and M&A initiatives, and mentor contracts professionals.