Top Legal Jobs in Rochester, NY

The role involves executing legal processes for sales, negotiating complex agreements, collaborating with multiple internal teams, and improving legal documentation for a cloud-based service company.

As Senior Legal Counsel, you will focus on commercial negotiations, data partnerships, and privacy issues, while working closely with various business teams to guide legal practices effectively.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Serve as sole legal operations lead across a creative agency group: draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts; manage employment documentation and corporate records; run privacy and compliance programs (GDPR/CCPA); support M&A diligence; build legal templates, workflows, and AI-enabled self-service processes; coordinate with outside counsel and HR/Finance.

Assist in launching and maintaining venture capital firms globally, managing legal and operational matters while collaborating with partners and clients.

Provide accurate, timely legal support on consumer-facing matters; handle complex client inquiries across channels with professionalism and empathy; serve as escalation point; create and update scripts/procedures; assist project managers; monitor case health, identify errors, and implement resolutions.

The attorney will litigate domestic violence cases, draft legal documents, educate the community, and collaborate on systemic issues.

Edit and optimize high volumes of AI-assisted legal marketing content for U.S. law firms. Ensure legal accuracy, SEO best practices, persuasive conversion-focused copy, consistent tone, citations, and formatting. Collaborate with writers and SEO teams, manage multiple deadlines, and maintain quality while staying current on SEO and AI writing trends.

The Executive Legal Assistant supports high-level administrative tasks including case management, legal research, communication, and organization of case materials in a remote legal environment.

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.

Lead and build Duetto's legal function: implement AI-enabled legal tooling, advise on AI/ML product and data/privacy issues, architect scalable commercial contracting and governance, support PE-driven exit readiness and M&A, manage global employment and external counsel, and integrate legal with cross-functional leadership to reduce risk and enable growth.

Provide legal administrative support, manage document and contract repositories, maintain compliance and entity records, coordinate DocuSign and invoicing, use AI and automation to improve legal workflows, and enable Legal team projects and process improvements.

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.

Provide hands-on regulatory and commercial legal advice for crypto, web3, fintech and payments products. Advise product teams on design, licensing, compliance (AML/KYC, sanctions), marketing/promotions, and cross-jurisdiction regulatory risks. Lead licensing/submission processes, coordinate local counsel, draft and negotiate commercial contracts, respond to regulators and stakeholders, and build scalable playbooks to enable compliant product launches.

Collabera is seeking a Legal Editor with a Juris Doctorate or equivalent degree for a temporary position in Rochester, NY. Responsibilities include ensuring accuracy and attention to detail in legal documents.