Top Senior Legal Jobs in Washington, DC

Provides strategic employment-law counsel across the Americas, advising People, Employee Relations, investigations, and business teams on sensitive employee matters, executive issues, reorganizations, reductions in force, workforce strategy, and organizational change. Oversees employment litigation and agency matters, manages outside counsel, assesses legal and reputational risks, develops compliance and risk-management approaches, delivers employment-law training, and advises on practical solutions aligned with business objectives.

Lead export and sanctions legal counsel for Medtronic’s global trade compliance program. Advise on EAR, OFAC sanctions, export controls, restricted-party screening, anti-boycott requirements, licensing, audits, investigations, litigation, M&A due diligence, and voluntary disclosures. Develop compliance policies, interpret regulatory changes, mitigate cross-business risks, support training, and partner with legal, supply chain, compliance, and business teams globally.

Provides legal counsel to Global IT and cybersecurity leadership on governance, regulatory compliance, risk management, incident response, third-party cybersecurity, privacy, and secure technology transformation. Develops cybersecurity legal frameworks and advises on investigations, audits, enforcement, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, and contractual risk mitigation. Partners with product security, compliance, communications, privacy, and enterprise risk teams across a global healthcare technology organization.

Provides senior legal counsel on AI, product development, marketing, legal technology, technology transactions, and emerging regulations. Advises Product, Engineering, Marketing, Partner, Customer Success, and Strategy teams; drafts policies and agreement terms; negotiates vendor, open-source, collaboration, and customer agreements; supports product launches and go-to-market strategies; and translates complex AI laws into practical business guidance.

Provide expert legal support for global data center client contracts, focusing on complex commercial leases, triple-net leases, service agreements and gigawatt campus projects. Negotiate and draft contracts, manage contractual risk and compliance, advise leadership, support cross-functional stakeholders worldwide, and develop contract templates and procedures to improve efficiency.

Provides legal and compliance guidance on global import and customs matters, including country of origin, valuation, tariff classification, trade remedies, FTAs, CTPAT, customs inquiries, investigations, audits, and regulatory changes. Partners with legal, supply chain, compliance, and business teams to mitigate global trade risks, develop controls and standards, support due diligence and litigation, and deliver employee training.

Provides strategic legal leadership for PayPal’s U.S. federal and state financial-services regulatory relationships. Serves as primary counsel to supervisory authorities and advises executives on regulatory risk, product approvals, legislative developments, examinations, and enforcement matters. Leads regulatory strategy across payments, money transmission, consumer financial protection, BSA/AML, and electronic funds transfers. Manages and develops a team of regulatory attorneys, collaborates with compliance and risk functions, and represents PayPal before regulators and industry groups.

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.

Serve as lead commercial counsel for the go-to-market organization, negotiating complex enterprise, strategic, partnership, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and AI agreements. Advise sales and business stakeholders on risk, regulatory, privacy, and commercial issues; build scalable legal processes, templates, playbooks, risk frameworks, CLM tools, and AI-enabled workflows; support quote-to-cash automation; and partner with senior leaders on strategic initiatives.

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.

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.

Manage commercial contract lifecycles, including drafting, review, negotiation, execution, and recordkeeping. Support corporate governance, regulatory inquiries, intellectual property licensing and enforcement, registry matters, grievance processes, litigation, and legal operations. Provide pragmatic advice to global stakeholders, coordinate with external counsel, maintain legal workflows, and triage inquiries across departments.

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.

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.

Serves as the private equity firm’s primary legal advisor, leading transaction support, fund documentation, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, portfolio-company legal triage, contract negotiation, and outside counsel management. The role builds Brydon’s legal function from the ground up, advises partners and investors, oversees entity governance, supports acquisitions and divestitures, and manages legal risk across firm and portfolio operations.

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.

Partner with attorneys and business teams to apply AI-enabled tools and firm technology to improve matter efficiency, manage matter budgets/forecasts, monitor financial performance (WIP, realization, collections), recommend corrective actions, and drive consistent legal project management practices and reporting across matters.

Advise ClassPass and Playlist on product compliance throughout the development lifecycle, focusing on consumer protection, AI regulation, privacy, data protection, marketing, and platform regulations. Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Security, sales, marketing, and operations teams; monitor global regulatory developments; maintain privacy records and assessments; draft policies and agreements; support negotiations, M&A, training, and other legal projects.

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

Provide commercial tech-transaction legal support: draft, structure, and negotiate complex agreements with OEMs and AV partners; advise leadership; collaborate cross-functionally; support IP, product, and compliance; build playbooks, forms, and legal operations to scale a small, fast-growing in-house legal team.

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.

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.