Top Legal Jobs in Richmond, VA

Provides practical legal advice on commercial contracts, regulatory compliance, data privacy, employment matters, and vendor and sales agreements. Drafts and negotiates SaaS, technology, consulting, and service contracts; supports procurement, sales, and HR teams; monitors global legal developments; and advises on compliance. Leads adoption of automation, AI, and legal technology to improve legal operations and supports scalable processes for a fully remote technology company.

Provides legal counsel to retail bank branches, cafes, and customer complaints operations. Advises on branch servicing, complaint responses, disputes, compliance and operational errors, regulatory and litigation trends, and standardized compensation responses. Partners with compliance and business teams to investigate complaints, translate legal requirements into business guidance, and identify strategic insights across customer trends and regulatory developments.

Advise retail banking Savings and Marketing teams on products, marketing strategy, legal risks, policies, customer communications, litigation, compliance, and third-party relationships. Partner with Compliance, Risk, Legal, and business stakeholders; coordinate outside counsel; assess complex regulatory issues; and provide strategic business counsel while managing multiple priorities.

Support attorneys with legal research, document preparation (briefs, memos, reports), case management, and regulatory monitoring. Analyze environmental law issues, maintain organized case files, collaborate on case strategies, and assist in preparing materials for client matters.

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.

Develop AI prompts, playbooks, agents, automations, and legal workflows for contracting, counseling, and governance. Partner with in-house legal teams to understand needs, implement practical solutions, deliver customer and internal training, support adoption, collaborate with Customer Success, and provide product feedback. Serve as a legal subject matter expert during sales demonstrations while using the platform internally to improve guidance and customer outcomes.

Support Fetch’s privacy and data governance program under Corporate Counsel, Privacy. Responsibilities include documenting data discovery exercises, mapping data flows, maintaining data inventories, reviewing legal and technical documentation, and communicating project updates. The three-month remote internship begins in January 2027 and requires 12–15 hours per week. The intern will gain exposure to privacy compliance, data governance, and in-house legal operations at a consumer technology company.

Provides legal and regulatory guidance on digital assets, tokenized securities, and SEC-regulated entities. Supports securities-law compliance, product launches, transactions, regulatory examinations, audits, policies, and external counsel management. Drafts and negotiates commercial agreements while monitoring developments affecting digital assets and securities markets.

Own the operational backbone of the Legal function, including intake, matter tracking, contract lifecycle management, corporate records, governance calendars, compliance administration, policy management, legal playbooks, outside-counsel coordination, and cross-functional legal projects. The role also manages legal technology, employee training, reporting, and support for privacy, security, AI governance, accessibility, SOC 2, and CMMC initiatives.

Leads complex data center, infrastructure, procurement, lease, colocation, facilities, and operations agreements for a global cloud platform. Negotiates transactions, advises cross-functional teams on risk and performance, supports international expansion, and develops scalable legal templates, playbooks, and approval frameworks. Requires substantial in-house infrastructure transaction experience, a J.D., and active U.S. bar admission.

Provides enterprise legal leadership and oversees compliance strategy, regulatory risk, governance, audit readiness, investigations, contracting, and executive reporting for a multi-state healthcare organization. Advises senior leadership and the board, translates healthcare regulations into operational guidance, manages outside counsel, and scales the legal and compliance function.

Provides legal support for corporate and commercial matters, including contract drafting, negotiation, confidentiality agreements, regulatory compliance, corporate policies, and document management. The role advises on business practices, mitigates legal risk, develops legal training materials, and collaborates with business teams in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.

Serves as primary legal partner to global functions, advising on corporate, commercial, fundraising, nonprofit, employment, privacy, and operational matters. Structures and negotiates partnerships, funding arrangements, technology agreements, and data-sharing agreements. Leads legal strategy for data partnerships, MNO data, remote enablement, and cross-country initiatives. Builds legal templates and playbooks, supports charitable giving and public affairs compliance, coordinates external counsel, and develops practical approaches to novel regulatory issues.

Provides legal advice, negotiates contracts, prepares legal documents, and addresses employment law and compliance matters. Collaborates with internal teams, external partners, and customers to ensure legal compliance and deliver strategic guidance in a fast-paced remote environment.

Leads legal operations transformation and enablement, including legal technology architecture, AI-enabled workflows, contract lifecycle management, process optimization, metrics, vendor management, change management, and budgeting. Builds scalable contracting infrastructure, improves self-service and legal intake, reduces outside counsel reliance, partners with IT and enterprise teams on technology delivery, and manages legal operations staff while supporting commercial and procurement contracting.

Senior Commercial Counsel supporting Americas go-to-market activities by reviewing and negotiating complex SaaS, software licensing, professional services, reseller, and customer agreements. The role leads multijurisdictional transactions, advises on regulatory and compliance developments, trains stakeholders, maintains legal policies and templates, and develops scalable workflows. Candidates should have strong commercial legal experience, business judgment, communication skills, and a U.S. state bar membership, with experience in high-growth technology companies preferred.

Own attorney and client relationships, coordinate case progress from intake to resolution, provide status updates, remove bottlenecks, and ensure timely, high-quality client communication and case velocity in collaboration with Legal Ops.

Own and scale the company’s global privacy and data protection program. Advise product, engineering, sales, marketing, security, and executives on privacy laws, data transfers, DPAs, AI governance, security commitments, incident response, and regulatory requirements. Manage privacy assessments, data inventories, notices, training, outside counsel, and vendor relationships. Partner with Security and GRC on audits, certifications, breach response, government requests, and customer obligations while building scalable processes and eventually a privacy team.

Own and negotiate commercial agreements across customers, vendors, partners, marketplaces, technology, data protection, and confidentiality matters. Advise Sales and go-to-market teams on deal structure, risk, and contracting strategy. Build scalable templates, playbooks, approval processes, and self-service resources. Partner with Security, Privacy, Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations on technology transactions, global matters, revenue considerations, and risk management. Improve contracting efficiency and support broader legal priorities.

Leads and builds Tailscale’s global legal function, advising executives and cross-functional teams on corporate governance, product, privacy, data, security, intellectual property, employment, commercial, compliance, and international matters. Establishes legal strategy, processes, systems, and operating models; hires and develops the legal team; manages outside counsel; supports strategic transactions and partnerships; and translates complex legal and regulatory issues into practical business guidance.

Develops, licenses, and manages analytical tax, accounting, and legal content for professional customers. Responsibilities include researching tax law, legislation, regulations, and case law; writing and editing practical guidance; using generative AI to improve content workflows; recruiting authors and negotiating licensing agreements; and collaborating with editorial, product, technical, sales, and marketing teams. Requires a JD, CPA designation, significant accounting experience, and at least two years each of tax legal and accounting experience.

Manages commercial contract intake, triage, and negotiation within approved templates and playbooks. Partners with attorneys on complex matters, improves contracting processes and documentation, enables business teams, and drives legal technology initiatives. Owns CLM, repository reporting, AI adoption, templates, approval workflows, and multiple concurrent projects while coordinating with Sales, Finance, Revenue Operations, Privacy, and Business Systems.

Own the company’s legal and regulatory strategy across controlled-substance prescribing, telehealth practice, corporate structure, privacy, marketing, AI, litigation, workforce matters, payer contracts, and governance. Advise executives and the board, manage government inquiries and outside counsel, negotiate healthcare and commercial agreements, and build the legal function. The role requires deep healthcare and digital-health experience, including MSO and professional-corporation structures, HIPAA, healthcare fraud and abuse, consumer protection, employment law, and multi-state regulatory matters.

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.

Coordinates customer and vendor onboarding, export compliance for international hardware shipments, and review and negotiation of NDAs and Statements of Work. Maintains contract records, agreement trackers, renewal dates, and onboarding workflows while partnering with Corporate Counsel, Sales, Finance, Engineering, OEMs, and vendors. Escalates non-standard legal, compliance, and licensing issues and supports consistent contracting processes across technology reseller engagements.