Top Senior Legal Jobs in Washington, DC

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.

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.

Provide strategic legal counsel to Vitera leadership on commercial, product, technology, and regulatory matters. Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial, SaaS, data-sharing, and vendor agreements. Structure partnerships across the defined contribution ecosystem, mitigate legal and regulatory risk, support product and operations implementation, coordinate with outside counsel (including ERISA specialists), and contribute to governance, policy, and communications review.

The role involves preparing legal documents related to securities offerings, corporate governance, and managing legal matters for BREIT, alongside collaborating with various business units.

Serve as legal partner for subcontracts and supply chain: draft, review, and negotiate high-volume supplier agreements; ensure FAR/DFARS/OTA flowdowns and export control compliance; build playbooks, templates, and SOPs; support programs, trade compliance, dispute resolution, and leadership with pragmatic risk analysis.

Provides legal guidance on contracts, nonprofit compliance, risk management, fiscal sponsorships, charitable giving, and governance. Maintains contract and policy systems, conducts legal research, updates templates, supports audits, and advises operations, program, and development teams. Requires a Washington, DC bar admission and collaboration with the General Counsel to address legal and regulatory matters affecting community foundations.

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.

Provide advanced patent docketing and administrative support, mentor and train junior Legal Support Analysts, manage IDS filings and annuity/maintenance payments, communicate with clients and vendors, maintain knowledge of patent rules, and ensure timely handling of attorney-requested tasks while preserving confidentiality.

Provides administrative, secretarial, document processing, and case support to an intellectual property trademark and copyright practice group. Responsibilities include court filings, e-filing, legal document preparation, proofreading, workflow coordination, calendar and travel management, meeting coordination, billing and time-entry support, new business intake, file maintenance, legal research, and client communication. Requires prior law firm experience, at least seven years of administrative support experience, and proficiency with Microsoft Office and PDF software.

Provide high-level administrative support to arbitration, trade, and advocacy attorneys including calendar and email management, preparing meeting materials, coordinating domestic and international travel, supporting billing and intake processes, tracking deadlines and budgets, and partnering with legal staff to ensure seamless operations and client-facing communications.

Provide commercial transactional legal support for large, complex merchant and partner deals globally. Negotiate and draft multinational agreements, advise sales and cross-functional teams on payments, licensing, and regulatory risk, manage deal closings, ensure compliance, escalate high-stakes issues, and develop risk management frameworks to protect PayPal's legal interests.

Create and maintain practical legal know‑how content for startups on capital markets and corporate governance, monitor legal developments, support AI-powered product and editorial tool development, partner with product management, manage external contributors, and support sales and customer inquiries.

Report on election litigation by pitching and writing breaking news, analyses, explainers, and deep dives; comb court filings for story angles; track cases with Research; build sources; collaborate with editors and cross-functional teams; produce social, video, and newsletter content; and occasionally travel for on-the-ground coverage.

Provide legal guidance on a variety of commercial and regulatory matters, with a focus on drug information and healthcare solutions. Manage outside counsel and counsel on compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, and healthcare laws.

Manage a litigation portfolio focused on single-plaintiff consumer finance matters, including FCRA, FDCPA, TCPA, and state consumer protection claims. Supervise outside counsel, support regulatory investigations, conduct legal research, advise business stakeholders on litigation and compliance risks, oversee subpoenas and legal holds, develop risk mitigation strategies, monitor litigation metrics, and provide training. The role requires practical guidance across student loan servicing operations and evolving federal and state legal requirements.

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

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

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.

Serve as primary legal counsel on government contracting, advise on compliance, support proposal development, and provide training on FAR/DFARS and CMMC.

Leads commercial, privacy, and product legal functions for a cloud technology company. Drafts and negotiates complex SaaS, partnership, reseller, and technology agreements; advises on global privacy, data protection, AI, intellectual property, and product development issues; develops contracting processes and playbooks; partners with cross-functional teams; and manages, mentors, and develops legal professionals.

Leads litigation, eDiscovery, intellectual property, DMCA, and brand protection operations. Coordinates legal holds, document collections, productions, outside counsel, vendors, trademark and patent administration, copyright enforcement, domain management, and marketplace investigations. Develops scalable workflows, SOPs, dashboards, KPIs, and automation while partnering with Engineering, Security, IT, Product, Marketing, and Customer Experience teams.

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.

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.

Author and verify rigorous multiple-choice legal assessment items for AI benchmarks across multiple legal specialties. Create clear, self-contained questions with one correct answer and nine plausible distractors, classify difficulty, provide structured solution explanations and references, and review/edit questions for legal accuracy and clarity. Work remotely, asynchronously, as an independent contractor, committing 10+ hours weekly.