Top Legal Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

The Legal Director will provide expert legal guidance on global capital markets transactions, corporate governance, and commercial contracts, while supporting business operations and strategic initiatives.

The Director, Legal - Data and Content will lead the legal function related to data and content contracts, providing strategic advice and managing a legal team.

The role involves fact-checking AI-generated legal marketing content for accuracy and legally sound information while ensuring clarity and SEO optimization, all done remotely.

As a Legal Scopist, your responsibilities will include transcribing legal documents, scoping materials for readability, meeting deadlines, maintaining confidentiality, and collaborating with team members to ensure quality work.

Lead and scale a global Legal Advisory function advising General Counsel and legal operations on contract lifecycle management, AI adoption, governance, compliance, and risk. Build and manage a high-performing global team, partner with Sales/Product/Marketing to drive revenue and product strategy, establish advisory frameworks, and represent the company as a thought leader at industry events and executive briefings.

Provide advanced legal support to attorneys on insurance and healthcare matters, handling legal research, contract review, document and knowledge management, process improvements, liaison with outside counsel, and escalation of complex issues to mitigate risk and drive business outcomes.

As a Contracts Specialist, you will optimize and manage the contracting process, enhancing operational efficiency and facilitating legal communication within the company.

As a Smart Contract Legal Architect, you will translate legal frameworks into Solidity, define rights compliance, and engage with stakeholders in digital rights enforcement.

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.

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.

This role involves delivering high quality legal research services and coordinating with the Research & Information Services team to support client engagements.

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.

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.

The Legal Operations Director will streamline legal processes, oversee legal technology, and enhance operational performance through strategic initiatives and metrics analysis.

Provide day-to-day legal support to commercial, marketing, and functional teams across Dental Solutions and Health Information Systems. Review routine commercial and operational matters, support marketing/claims and contracting activities, maintain legal templates and processes, deliver training, coordinate with Regulatory, IP, Privacy, and Compliance, and help ensure timely, compliant business execution.

Review and evaluate two AI-generated legal responses for accuracy and client-readiness, provide written feedback to improve model behavior, and join onboarding and calibration sessions. Role is part-time (6–15 hours/week) and requires employment/labor law expertise, strong legal research and writing, and a U.S. law degree and license.

Lead the commercial legal function for a cloud SaaS provider: draft, review, and negotiate SaaS, services, and government contracts; advise on RFPs and procurement; partner with Sales, Finance, and Operations; build scalable contract processes; and support broader legal initiatives including privacy and compliance.

Lead and scale Dutch's legal function across corporate, regulatory, commercial, product, privacy, employment, litigation, and compliance. Advise the CEO, exec team, and board; manage outside counsel; draft and negotiate commercial agreements; build legal processes and playbooks; support state-by-state regulatory strategy for veterinary telemedicine, pharmacy, and consumer healthcare; oversee governance, financing, and employment matters; enable compliant product launches and expansion into new states.

The Senior Counsel manages legal and regulatory advice on market conduct exams and inquiries, ensuring compliance and representing GEICO effectively. They assess risks, collaborate with various teams, and provide strategic counsel on insurance regulatory matters, requiring strong legal expertise and experience in the insurance sector.

The Bilingual Legal Assistant supports attorneys in personal injury cases through discovery work, client communication, document preparation, and case management, ensuring efficient handling of cases.

Review, edit, and audit AI-assisted legal opinions and caselaw content for accuracy. Identify legal issues, determine precedential impact, apply history/treatment lettering, verify source material, meet production targets, resolve complex editorial questions, and suggest guideline or workflow improvements.

The role involves creating insights on AI in legal departments, advising clients, and collaborating on strategies for implementing AI technologies.

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.

Lead and scale Legal and Compliance functions, manage a 3–4 person team, own contract lifecycle and Ironclad CLM workflows, build compliance programs (MNPI, privacy, SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA), advise leadership, collaborate cross-functionally, and create policies, training, and controls to support growth.

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.