Top Senior Legal Jobs in Sacramento, CA

Provides in-house legal counsel across privacy, cybersecurity, AI, SaaS contracts, technology transactions, intellectual property, trademarks, copyright, marketing compliance, and product development. Reviews and negotiates agreements, advises on privacy and AI regulations, supports security incidents and ISO/SOC audits, manages outside counsel, guides product and marketing teams, and develops legal policies, playbooks, training, and compliance processes.

Reviews, analyzes, and drafts vendor contracts including MSAs, SOWs, order forms, and NDAs. Identifies legal, regulatory, privacy, security, and third-party risk issues; coordinates reviews with Legal, Compliance, Information Security, and Enterprise Risk Management. Maintains contract governance, risk classification, audit readiness, templates, and stakeholder education while supporting vendor management and contract review improvements in a regulated financial-services environment.

Lead securities, public company reporting, corporate governance, entity management, and M&A legal work for GitLab. Manage SEC filings, proxy statements, board matters, equity plans, subsidiary governance, transactions, and outside counsel. Advise senior stakeholders on legal risks, maintain compliance processes, and create scalable legal playbooks, templates, and workflows. Collaborate with globally distributed cross-functional teams and train junior legal professionals.

Leads Blee’s Legal Engineering function, translating advertising, consumer protection, and regulatory requirements into scalable AI review logic. Owns legal frameworks, quality measurement, regulatory updates, customer guidance, product collaboration, and team growth. Partners with legal, compliance, product, implementation, customer success, and AI engineering teams while representing Blee externally. Also supports in-house legal matters, including commercial agreements.

Serve as the primary legal partner to Procurement, drafting and negotiating high-value buy-side agreements across SaaS, software, marketing, facilities, professional services, and real estate. Provide guidance on complex transactions, risk allocation, data privacy, technology contracting, and vendor risk. Develop scalable contracting processes, playbooks, templates, training, and knowledge resources while leveraging automation and legal technology. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and support broader Legal team initiatives.

The Commercial Legal Director will lead complex technology and commercial transactions, negotiate SaaS, licensing, partnership, marketing, and services agreements, and develop scalable legal contracting standards. The role advises teams on AI, intellectual property, privacy, security, and regulatory issues; improves contracting workflows using Ironclad and AI-enabled tools; and partners with senior stakeholders across product, engineering, finance, marketing, and people operations.

Manage employment litigation and discovery matters from case initiation through production. Responsibilities include legal holds, case setup, document collection and review, e-discovery workflows, discovery meetings, project plans, stakeholder coordination, reporting, quality control, and process improvement. The role partners with attorneys, HR, IT, compliance, outside counsel, and client stakeholders to deliver defensible, timely discovery outcomes while managing multiple concurrent matters.

Lead legal work for private-market investment products, including SPV and fund structuring, securities offerings, investor terms, partnerships, regulatory analysis, and product counsel. Draft and negotiate transaction documents, supervise outside counsel, manage deal execution, advise cross-functional teams, and build scalable legal templates, playbooks, and workflows. The role requires significant funds, securities, and private-markets experience and reports to the Head of Legal.

Manage corporate filings, legal records, deadlines, requests, budgets, invoices, vendors, and legal technology. Improve legal workflows, document processes, track obligations, and support attorneys while maintaining confidentiality and organization in a fast-moving environment.

Develops and executes litigation, legal policy, and advocacy strategies affecting the pharmaceutical industry. Advises senior leaders and business functions, manages complex litigation, investigations, disputes, and outside counsel, and engages with government agencies, attorneys general, trade associations, and industry stakeholders. Monitors legal and policy developments involving drug development, pricing, access, and reimbursement while advancing Lilly’s policy objectives.

Legal Assistant supporting a litigation defense firm with insurance defense matters, including auto, trucking, transportation, commercial litigation, premises liability, and bodily injury cases. Responsibilities require strong organization, multitasking, communication, knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and state and federal court rules. Prior trial experience is preferred.

Provides in-house labor and employment counsel, advises Human Resources and business stakeholders, ensures legal compliance, manages outside employment counsel, and supports litigation, labor relations, benefits, and employment policies. Drafts and negotiates commercial customer agreements involving services, data, and information technology. Develops customer-focused legal solutions, contributes to functional strategy, solves complex business problems, and operates independently in a demanding environment.

Handles complex professional liability claims, especially legal malpractice claims. Responsibilities include evaluating coverage, assessing risk transfer, investigating liability and damages, setting reserves, managing litigation and counsel, negotiating resolutions, communicating claim exposures, and developing strategies for favorable outcomes. Periodic travel is required for mediations, trials, and related meetings.

Lead complex global partner and channel transactions, including reseller, referral, MSP, OEM, systems integrator, and strategic alliance agreements. Advise business leaders on deal structures, negotiations, legal risks, and commercial solutions while collaborating across sales, product, privacy, security, finance, tax, engineering, operations, and compliance. Develop scalable contracting templates, playbooks, policies, training, and workflows for the company’s expanding partnerships program.

Provide in-house legal counsel for procurement, supply chain, logistics, operations and real estate across North America. Draft, review, and negotiate vendor and service agreements, manage vendor disputes and pre-litigation issues, support M&A due diligence, develop contracting templates and playbooks, and advise on operational risk, compliance, and strategic transformation initiatives.

Supports litigation attorneys with evening electronic court filings, document drafting and formatting, court-rule compliance, redactions, exhibits, and page stamping. Tracks filings requiring signatures, manages overflow requests, coordinates with a remote support team, and handles administrative tasks including timesheets, expenses, and travel bookings. The role is remote after a 30-day in-office onboarding period and requires Pacific Time evening hours.

Own the full contract lifecycle from intake through execution, including drafting, reviewing, redlining, negotiating, and tracking commercial agreements. Partner with Sales, Finance, Insurance, and other stakeholders to resolve terms, manage risk, and accelerate deal closure. Identify and escalate legal issues, support counterparties, and improve contracting workflows and processes. The role also includes security awareness compliance and escalation of security risks.

Own legal operations, contract lifecycle management, agreement triage, templates, repositories, outside counsel billing, legal spend, corporate governance, cap table maintenance, transaction support, and claims and litigation coordination. Administer legal technology, build operational dashboards, improve workflows through automation, and partner with Finance, Accounting, People Operations, Compliance, and business teams.

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.

Directs legal claims recovery services involving bankruptcy preference and avoidance actions under Sections 547, 550, and 502. Oversees demand letters, complaints, defense analyses, settlements, mediations, litigation support, case tracking, client and counsel communications, and administrative staff. Personally manages a high-volume caseload, evaluates transaction data and defenses, coordinates portfolio activities, and ensures timely filings, service, settlements, and fund recovery. Requires substantial corporate bankruptcy or restructuring experience and strong Excel proficiency.

Leads Legal and Compliance operations, including process improvement, legal technology, contract lifecycle management, outside counsel and vendor oversight, budgeting, reporting, insurance administration, risk tracking, and cross-functional projects. The role develops scalable workflows, dashboards, procedures, and knowledge systems while supporting compliance and efficient legal service delivery in a biopharmaceutical environment.

Leads GreenLight’s legal and compliance function, focusing on workforce compliance, worker classification, employment law, commercial contracts, international legal coordination, product compliance, privacy, fraud prevention, and responsible AI. Advises leadership, manages outside counsel, supports escalations and investigations, translates regulations into scalable processes and product controls, and strengthens contracting, partner oversight, and compliance operations.

Senior Legal Counsel serving as Kit’s in-house expert for product, privacy, data, AI, compliance, commercial contracts, intellectual property, and customer security matters. The role advises product, engineering, sales, security, and executive teams; manages GDPR and data compliance; supports security questionnaires; and builds scalable legal playbooks, intake processes, templates, and self-service guidance. The position requires strong U.S. and European privacy law knowledge, commercial judgment, and the ability to operate independently in a remote technology company.

Provides broad corporate legal support across governance, commercial and technology contracts, litigation, privacy, cybersecurity, product development, and regulatory risk. Drafts and negotiates SaaS, licensing, vendor, data processing, and trader agreements; manages outside counsel, litigation, subpoenas, corporate records, and legal research. Advises leadership and cross-functional teams, supports privacy and security incidents, and delivers internal legal and compliance training.

Advise Megaport’s leadership on complex, high-value technology transactions and strategic initiatives. Lead negotiations involving cloud, networking, data centers, infrastructure, compute, software, suppliers, customers, and strategic partners. Provide guidance on technology, privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, regulatory, and commercial risks. Partner with executives, support global legal teams, improve contracting processes, and turn ambiguous, commercially sensitive matters into practical paths to execution.