Top Legal Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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 design and implementation of AI-assisted legal operations and knowledge-management workflows. Manage daily legal department operations, project-manage cross-functional company initiatives, evaluate and deploy AI tooling, and track adoption and efficiency. Drive process improvements and stakeholder alignment to scale legal support for a fast-growing healthcare technology company.

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.

Lead development and enforcement of advertising policies for Netflix's ad-supported tier. Serve as functional expert across verticals, manage complex global policy projects, align cross-functional stakeholders, and balance scalability with regional sensitivities to protect member experience and advertiser outcomes.

Oversee and finalize legal documents governing data sharing between Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership members and a trusted third party. Collaborate with CMS, HFPP leadership, partner engagement teams, and private payer partners on agreements, compliance, and negotiations. Present to management, support partner relationships, and ensure legal requirements are met for data governance and sharing.

Participate in a 60-minute virtual interview to walk through contract drafting, review, approval, and procurement workflows; discuss software tools, identify bottlenecks, and provide feedback on administrative tasks and potential solutions.

Participate in a 60-minute remote, paid interview and screen-share to demonstrate daily case management and document drafting workflows. Discuss responsibilities, highlight pain points in current legal software, and provide practical feedback to help improve tools.

Negotiate personal injury settlements with insurance carriers and adjusters, build settlement breakdowns reconciling recoveries against fees, costs, and liens, and collaborate with attorneys, case managers, and clients. Execute agreed negotiation strategies, cultivate stakeholder relationships, manage competing deadlines and SLAs, and apply strategic thinking, attention to detail, and AI tools to drive timely, fair resolutions for clients.

As a Legal Ops Assistant, you will handle various overflow tasks to support Case Managers, conduct client check-ins, and manage case updates in a fast-paced environment.

Provide strategic legal counsel to global and U.S. teams on commercial and strategic agreements, corporate governance, compliance, intellectual property, privacy, security, and product matters. Negotiate customer and vendor contracts, develop templates and playbooks, manage contract and governance systems, support M&A and fundraising, and coordinate outside counsel. Advise business leaders, review marketing and product materials, and partner with compliance teams to address legal and regulatory requirements.

As a Legal Intern, assist with legal research, contract drafting, policy review, and the development of legal operations processes.

Manage the operational workflow for pre-litigation personal injury cases in Illinois and Ohio: open claims, request and track medical records and police reports, monitor liens and subrogation, collaborate with paralegals to prepare demands, and resolve operational bottlenecks to keep cases moving.

Participate in a remote paid study evaluating legal scenarios and complex materials for accuracy and realism. Construct domain-specific case studies, provide structured feedback on legal reasoning workflows, and explain typical legal research processes. The study seeks practicing attorneys, paralegals, and legal researchers with experience in complex legal documentation, case law, and deep legal analysis, including corporate law, litigation, intellectual property, or general practice.

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.

Provide legal guidance on global payment processing, fintech regulation, money movement, licensing, compliance, and digital innovation. Draft and negotiate agreements with payment providers, banks, card networks, vendors, and partners. Advise on KYC/KYB, AML, sanctions, entity structuring, market expansion, chargebacks, settlements, reserves, and emerging technologies. Collaborate with product, technology, operations, and management teams to launch compliant payment products and address legal risks.

Provide day-to-day legal support for a fast-paced tech company: draft and negotiate commercial contracts, advise cross-functional teams (revenue, product, HR, finance, engineering), assist corporate governance and board preparations, support public company readiness, oversee global corporate administration and compliance, and help scale the legal function.

Provides remote administrative and case support for personal injury law firms. Responsibilities include managing electronic case files, medical records, billing, police reports, insurance claims, deadlines, calendars, correspondence, client communication, and provider coordination. The role also prepares case summaries and documentation, supports pre-litigation workflows, performs quality control, and communicates professionally with clients in English and Spanish. Candidates must work independently during U.S. Mountain Time business hours and be located outside the United States.

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.

Provide remote administrative and legal support to law firms: manage schedules, coordinate meetings, draft documents, perform legal research, communicate with clients, and maintain organized workflows. Must adapt to legal software and digital tools, multitask, and uphold high attention to detail and professionalism.