Top Legal Jobs in Richmond, VA

Manage a portfolio of defensive card litigation matters: analyze complaints, motions, discovery and fraud claims; maintain case files; support internal and external counsel; negotiate with opposing counsel when needed; prioritize a high-volume caseload, meet deadlines, and help improve business practices to mitigate company risk.

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.

As Commercial Legal Counsel at GitLab, you will negotiate and draft various complex agreements, advise on risk allocation, support public sector transactions, and enhance the legal team's efficiency and training initiatives.

Part-time remote legal internship supporting regulatory and marketing compliance. Conduct FDA/FTC and advertising legal research, review marketing materials, draft memos, assist with contract lifecycle and corporate records, and support policy and training development.

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.

Lead employment, privacy, and security legal matters for a remote mental-health company. Provide practical counsel on worker classification, HIPAA and state privacy compliance, breach response, contracts, and AI-related employment/privacy issues while building policies and processes to support operations.

As Vice President, Legal Commercial, you will lead GitLab's global commercial legal function, advising on strategies, managing a legal team, and overseeing AI governance and contracting.

Lead negotiation and closing of SaaS, cloud and AI-related commercial agreements; partner with sales, product, engineering and support; ensure data privacy, security, and evolving AI governance compliance; enable sales through training and high-volume deal support; find commercial solutions to close complex, time-sensitive deals.

Lead and scale U.S. public sector contracting: draft and negotiate SaaS/cloud and subcontract agreements, advise on FAR/DFARS/GSA/FedRAMP compliance, support RFPs and audits, build legal playbooks, and partner with cross-functional teams to mitigate regulatory and export control risk.

Provide legal guidance on a variety of commercial and regulatory matters, with a focus on drug information and healthcare solutions. Manage outside counsel and counsel on compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, and healthcare laws.

As a Freelance Attorney with Rocket Lawyer, you will provide legal advice remotely to clients, leveraging your expertise in various legal areas and ensuring customer satisfaction.

Provide day-to-day legal support to commercial, marketing, and functional teams across Dental Solutions and Health Information Systems. Review routine commercial and operational matters, support marketing/claims and contracting activities, maintain legal templates and processes, deliver training, coordinate with Regulatory, IP, Privacy, and Compliance, and help ensure timely, compliant business execution.

Provide strategic legal counsel and manage legal risks for the Process Industries division. Review, draft, and negotiate commercial contracts, support M&A/divestiture and corporate governance, monitor litigations, and advise business stakeholders. Collaborate cross-functionally and anticipate legal opportunities to support commercial objectives.

Legal & Regulatory Counsel will manage regulatory risks, optimize entity structure, create compliance processes, and support fundraising from a legal perspective.

Temporary 4–6 month role supporting corporate and regulatory legal work for a multi-state cannabis company. Responsibilities include entity formation and management, M&A due diligence support, contract review and negotiation, state regulatory filings, corporate governance, legal research, and assisting senior attorneys. Opportunity to gain cannabis regulatory and transactional experience.

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.

Participate in a paid 60-minute remote research interview demonstrating and narrating a typical legal workflow via screen share. Discuss pain points, decision-making, and the tools/software you use. Must redact sensitive client data and provide feedback on current tools.

The Legal Policy Analyst tracks and analyzes legal developments, produces policy content, supports legal research, and assists with communication and engagement efforts.

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.

The role involves creating insights on AI in legal departments, advising clients, and collaborating on strategies for implementing AI technologies.