Top Legal Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead a remote library and research team delivering legal, regulatory, and competitive research to attorneys. Oversee client relationships, implement research workflows and tools, govern digital resources, champion adoption of AI-powered legal technologies, and manage projects, budgets, vendors, and staff development to ensure timely, accurate insights.

Evaluate and review AI-generated legal content for accuracy and quality, answer legal questions, recommend authoritative references, share real-world legal workflows and standards, and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to improve AI performance in legal domains. Part-time, remote contractor role (~10 hours/week).

Provide commercial legal support for Americas (including LATAM): draft, negotiate, and close complex SaaS and software agreements; lead cross-border transactions; advise on regulatory and compliance matters; maintain templates and scalable contracting workflows; provide training and partner with sales and business leaders to enable revenue growth.

Build and run legal operations: implement contract lifecycle and document management systems, design intake/process workflows, support compliance (AML/KYC, sanctions, regulatory filings), manage corporate governance and entity administration, liaise with outside counsel, and help develop AI-enabled legal workflows alongside the General Counsel.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Partner with corporate legal departments to design and implement AI-driven workflows and LexisNexis solutions. Conduct demos, trainings, executive briefings, and workshops; advise on AI adoption and governance; identify expansion opportunities; collect client feedback and relay product recommendations. Travel frequently to support client engagements.

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.

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

Provide U.S. regulatory legal counsel on crypto and financial matters, coordinate with agencies and internal teams on investigations, enforcement, AML/sanctions compliance, remediation, and regulatory filings, and advise on evolving U.S. regulatory developments affecting the business.