Top Legal Jobs in San Diego, CA

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.

Drafts, edits, and finalizes corporate and transactional legal documents; supports entity filings, closing binders, checklists, calendars, deadlines, and attorney coordination. Communicates with clients, opposing counsel, and third parties, while handling billing, expenses, travel logistics, and confidential information. Requires strong organization, attention to detail, legal terminology knowledge, and proficiency with Microsoft Office and iManage. The role is primarily in-office in Orange County with limited hybrid flexibility.

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.

Build and run AI-first processes for legal e-billing and outside counsel management. Administer Brightflag, manage monthly accruals and vendor onboarding, analyze OC spend using SQL/Snowflake/Looker, produce reports and scorecards, and partner with FP&A, Sourcing, and stakeholders to optimize budgets, forecasting, and outside counsel strategy.

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.

Own commercial legal work, including drafting and negotiating enterprise technology agreements, SaaS licenses, partnerships, reseller arrangements, procurement contracts, and data processing agreements. Advise on AI product terms, data rights, intellectual property, cybersecurity testing permissions, liability, and risk allocation. Partner with Sales, Finance, Product, Engineering, and Security, while building scalable legal processes, templates, playbooks, and training. The role requires independently leading complex negotiations and supporting a growing technology startup.

Provides civil legal advice, brief services, referrals, and support to low-income and vulnerable clients through a legal helpline. Conducts eligibility screening, consultations, legal research, issue analysis, and prepares pleadings and letters for pro se litigants. Maintains case records, uses legal and client-service technology, collaborates with community partners, and participates in continuing education and organizational activities.

Evaluate AI-generated legal and compliance work products, including documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks, against domain-specific quality rubrics. Assess accuracy, rigor, factual correctness, aesthetics, and presentation quality, then provide clear, structured written feedback. This is a fully remote, hourly independent-contractor engagement with flexible scheduling and weekly payments.

Provides administrative and legal support to staff attorneys serving victims of abuse. Duties include client intake and eligibility screening, maintaining records and files, preparing documents, coordinating volunteers and trainings, interpreting Spanish and English, and filing or delivering legal documents. Requires in-office work across two San Diego locations and regular court-related travel.

Provides high-level litigation support to attorneys by preparing, editing, proofreading, filing, organizing, and tracking legal documents. Maintains paper and electronic files, coordinates document deliveries, handles communications with clients, opposing counsel, and courts, and supports attorney administrative needs such as time entry, travel, invoices, and expenses. The role requires California court and e-filing experience, strong organization, confidentiality, deadline management, and familiarity with litigation procedures and approved AI tools.

Provides litigation support to attorneys handling civil litigation and insurance defense cases. Responsibilities include formatting and e-filing pleadings in state, federal, and appellate courts, managing case calendars and deadlines, preparing motions, scheduling depositions and hearings, conducting Westlaw research, coordinating travel, assisting with trial preparation, and maintaining confidential documents and files.

Manage Life360’s patent and trademark portfolios, including prosecution, enforcement, and outside counsel relationships. Advise on intellectual property matters involving patents, trademarks, trade secrets, licensing, open-source software, product development, and commercial transactions. Draft and negotiate IP-related agreements, support M&A due diligence, review marketing materials for compliance, and counsel cross-functional teams on strategic IP risks and opportunities.

Manage Helix’s legal operations infrastructure, including request intake, workflows, SOPs, legal technology platforms, metrics, contract reviews, renewals, vendor coordination, outside counsel, IP docketing, and corporate filings. The role partners cross-functionally with legal, finance, procurement, and business leaders to improve processes, administer systems, triage matters, and maintain efficient, organized legal operations.

Supports the Legal Department by processing subpoenas, levies, bankruptcy matters, and court orders; responding to stakeholder inquiries; coordinating with business units, government agencies, and outside counsel; optimizing legal processes; and conducting attorney-directed research.

Owns the end-to-end contract and legal document lifecycle, including maintaining MSAs and templates, redlining routine agreements, managing document control and data rooms, coordinating due diligence, tracking renewals, and supporting contract execution. Drafts investor, equity, trademark, and corporate filing documents while serving as an internal legal and paralegal resource. Partners with Finance, Compliance, Sales, People Operations, leadership, and outside counsel, escalating higher-risk legal matters as needed.

Paid 10-week legal internship working alongside in-house counsel on content distribution agreements, depositions, hearings, legal research, and memorandum drafting across entertainment-related practice areas.

Provide freelance English-to-French legal translation and editing for a U.S. government judiciary client. Responsibilities include translating or editing legal content using accurate U.S. legal terminology, applying CAT tools and Trados, maintaining strong organization and communication, and completing on-demand assignments during U.S. Eastern Time hours.

Leads Quantum-Si’s legal function, advising executives and cross-functional teams on corporate, commercial, employment, intellectual property, securities, governance, regulatory, and compliance matters. Manages public company obligations, contracts, IP portfolio coordination, litigation, outside counsel, legal budgets, compliance programs, strategic transactions, and corporate governance processes.

Provide freelance English-to-German legal translation and/or editing services for a U.S. Government judiciary client. Translate legal content using accurate U.S. legal and technical terminology, apply CAT tools and Trados, maintain excellent language quality, and support ongoing, as-needed assignments. Applicants must be native German speakers, U.S. citizens, available during most 9–5 EST hours, and willing to undergo security clearance processing and fingerprinting.

Provide legal guidance on healthcare regulatory matters and commercial contracting for payor and clinical partnerships. Advise on corporate practice of medicine, fraud and abuse, telehealth, HIPAA, Medicare/Medicaid, AI clinical governance, and negotiate provider, payor, and commercial agreements to enable compliant growth.

Own and operate Arctic Wolf’s global privacy program across multiple jurisdictions. Develop privacy policies, data maps, assessments, and compliance processes; advise Product and Engineering on privacy by design; support incident response, data subject requests, commercial agreements, and regulatory inquiries. Manage outside counsel and privacy vendors while providing practical guidance, training, and scalable playbooks.

Leads legal operations, corporate governance, entity management, securities compliance, transaction support, contract workflows, legal technology, and compliance initiatives. Oversees legal operations teams, Board and committee materials, corporate records, filings, document systems, and process improvements. Partners with executive leadership, Finance, HR, and external counsel to build scalable legal department processes.

Lead and supervise the Immigration team, manage complex affirmative and removal defense cases, prepare USCIS filings and appeals, train and mentor attorneys and volunteers, manage grants and reporting, conduct community outreach and education, ensure compliance and perform administrative duties.

Provide direct legal representation in SSI/SSDI application, appeal, and hearing processes; manage a large caseload; interview clients; draft pleadings and briefs; conduct community outreach, education, and in-person assistance at county locations; train and supervise advocates and volunteers; collaborate on policy and systemic solutions; comply with grant and program requirements.

Review and assess public sector, legal, and go-to-market documents, providing structured feedback focused on quality, accuracy, relevance, and adherence to guidelines. The role requires strong analytical, written communication, document review, and attention-to-detail skills. It is a fully remote independent contractor position with flexible scheduling and weekly payments, open to applicants in the United States, Europe, the UK, and Canada.