Top Senior Legal Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Provides practical legal advice on commercial contracts, regulatory compliance, data privacy, employment matters, and vendor and sales agreements. Drafts and negotiates SaaS, technology, consulting, and service contracts; supports procurement, sales, and HR teams; monitors global legal developments; and advises on compliance. Leads adoption of automation, AI, and legal technology to improve legal operations and supports scalable processes for a fully remote technology company.

Senior Legal Counsel will lead commercial legal operations, draft and negotiate complex agreements, build scalable contracting processes, advise business leaders on risk, support product launches and strategic transactions, manage outside counsel, and assist with corporate governance, intellectual property, international operations, and compliance. The role partners closely with business, finance, procurement, product, and operations teams in a regulated aerospace environment.

Lead government contracting and regulatory legal strategy for aerospace and defense programs. Advise executives, business development, engineering, and operations on FAR/DFARS compliance, contract negotiations, export controls, licensing, technology transfers, audits, and regulatory risk. Build scalable compliance policies, processes, templates, and training programs while managing outside counsel and mentoring the legal team.

Serve as chief legal officer providing strategic legal advice to the CEO, executive team, and Board. Oversee regulatory compliance, contracts, litigation, employment law, international trade, transportation and final-mile logistics legal matters. Lead legal team, manage outside counsel, set governance and compliance programs, and support M&A and commercial initiatives.

Lead the Legal function for a high-growth consumer brand while providing hands-on counsel across commercial agreements, marketing, privacy, employment, regulatory, corporate transactions, intellectual property, litigation, and international expansion. Manage outside counsel, legal spending, team development, compliance infrastructure, templates, playbooks, and training. Partner with cross-functional teams to identify risks and deliver practical legal guidance.

Leads the corporate legal function, advising executive leadership and the board on capital markets, financing, securities, governance, equity, investor relations, corporate structuring, M&A, and strategic commercial agreements. Oversees corporate legal processes, manages a senior paralegal, supports transactions from diligence through closing, and builds scalable legal standards for a rapidly growing aerospace company.

Directs music business and legal affairs for studio productions, negotiating and drafting music agreements, securing rights, advising internal departments, reviewing marketing and credits, managing royalty obligations, and addressing union and guild requirements. Requires an attorney with California Bar membership, strong music publishing and copyright expertise, and 5–8 years of legal experience.

Provides senior corporate, regulatory, commercial, healthcare, privacy, and intellectual property legal counsel. Drafts and negotiates customer, vendor, licensing, data use, and other business agreements; advises on product compliance, contracts, marketing materials, and risk strategies; manages legal projects and outside counsel; and supports federal, state, and industry compliance activities.

Senior Legal Counsel will advise ABB leaders across the Americas on commercial contracts, compliance, disputes, employment matters, strategic transactions, and cross-border legal risks. The role will negotiate complex agreements, manage litigation and external counsel, support mergers and acquisitions, develop contract processes, and coordinate with legal teams across jurisdictions and business divisions.

Owns regulatory filings, compliance calendars, KYC and AML processes, legal contract administration, corporate housekeeping, governance records, and investor reporting across UTOPIA’s fund manager and venture studio entities. Coordinates with outsourced compliance professionals, external counsel, regulators, administrators, and internal stakeholders to ensure obligations, filings, registers, and documentation remain accurate, complete, and timely.

Provide commercial and government-contracting legal support across the contract lifecycle, including drafting, negotiation, compliance, risk review, disputes, and contract administration. Advise on FAR, DFARS, procurement rules, state regulatory requirements, flow-down provisions, cybersecurity obligations, and government disclosures. Develop legal templates, playbooks, approval processes, and compliance procedures while partnering with Sales, Finance, Operations, Procurement, and Information Security in a remote, international environment.

Provide business-oriented legal counsel for complex commercial transactions, including software licenses, master services, reseller, distribution, data processing, marketing, and advertising agreements. Partner with sales, finance, deal desk, and other teams; support legal projects, research, employment matters, disputes, intellectual property, and cyber incident response. The role requires strong commercial judgment, communication, organization, and responsiveness in a fast-paced environment.

The Legal Operations Manager will manage contract lifecycles, negotiate commercial agreements, coordinate clinical and corporate legal matters, maintain governance and equity records, support financing diligence, oversee outside counsel and legal spend, administer contract management systems, and track intellectual property, compliance, and regulatory documentation. The role also develops scalable legal processes, workflows, templates, and reporting for a growing medtech company.

Develop and refine AI-powered legal and contract workflows in collaboration with product, engineering, service delivery, and clients. Create training and enablement materials, monitor legal AI and contract automation markets, evaluate workflow quality, experiment with prompts and prototypes, and advise stakeholders on practical AI applications. The role requires transactional legal experience, hands-on use of legal AI tools, strong communication, and hybrid work in the New York City office three days per week.

Own the commercial contracting lifecycle across intake, drafting, negotiation, approvals, execution, and repository management. Administer and scale Ironclad workflows, templates, playbooks, permissions, reporting, migrations, and automation. Independently negotiate NDAs, prepare agreement markups, manage SLAs, coordinate cross-functional approvals, maintain contract data quality, and improve processes through workflow automation and AI tools.

Own the operational backbone of the Legal function, including intake, matter tracking, contract lifecycle management, corporate records, governance calendars, compliance administration, policy management, legal playbooks, outside-counsel coordination, and cross-functional legal projects. The role also manages legal technology, employee training, reporting, and support for privacy, security, AI governance, accessibility, SOC 2, and CMMC initiatives.

Leads complex data center, infrastructure, procurement, lease, colocation, facilities, and operations agreements for a global cloud platform. Negotiates transactions, advises cross-functional teams on risk and performance, supports international expansion, and develops scalable legal templates, playbooks, and approval frameworks. Requires substantial in-house infrastructure transaction experience, a J.D., and active U.S. bar admission.

Provides enterprise legal leadership and oversees compliance strategy, regulatory risk, governance, audit readiness, investigations, contracting, and executive reporting for a multi-state healthcare organization. Advises senior leadership and the board, translates healthcare regulations into operational guidance, manages outside counsel, and scales the legal and compliance function.

Lead enterprise legal strategy and governance, advise C-suite and Board, manage M&A and commercial transactions, oversee IP, regulatory compliance (FDA/FTC/AAFCO), litigation, data privacy (CCPA) and risk management, build and scale the legal team, and prepare to assume General Counsel responsibilities.

Leads legal operations transformation and enablement, including legal technology architecture, AI-enabled workflows, contract lifecycle management, process optimization, metrics, vendor management, change management, and budgeting. Builds scalable contracting infrastructure, improves self-service and legal intake, reduces outside counsel reliance, partners with IT and enterprise teams on technology delivery, and manages legal operations staff while supporting commercial and procurement contracting.

Senior Commercial Counsel supporting Americas go-to-market activities by reviewing and negotiating complex SaaS, software licensing, professional services, reseller, and customer agreements. The role leads multijurisdictional transactions, advises on regulatory and compliance developments, trains stakeholders, maintains legal policies and templates, and develops scalable workflows. Candidates should have strong commercial legal experience, business judgment, communication skills, and a U.S. state bar membership, with experience in high-growth technology companies preferred.

Manages commercial contract intake, triage, and negotiation within approved templates and playbooks. Partners with attorneys on complex matters, improves contracting processes and documentation, enables business teams, and drives legal technology initiatives. Owns CLM, repository reporting, AI adoption, templates, approval workflows, and multiple concurrent projects while coordinating with Sales, Finance, Revenue Operations, Privacy, and Business Systems.

Provides the company’s primary legal support across corporate, commercial, regulatory, contract, governance, compliance, employment, and risk matters. Advises the CEO and leadership, reviews and negotiates contracts and SLAs, manages statutory filings and corporate records, supports board documentation, coordinates external counsel, and assists HR, Finance, and Procurement with legal issues.

Provides enterprise-wide legal strategy across international expansion, global privacy, product regulation, trade compliance, and market entry. Advises cross-functional teams on jurisdictional requirements, data transfers, regulatory pathways, advertising, labeling, export controls, sanctions, customs, and consumer protection. Builds scalable legal templates, playbooks, policies, and review processes; coordinates outside counsel and regulatory responses; and translates complex multi-jurisdictional requirements into actionable guidance for business and technical stakeholders.

Provide legal support for commercialization and product development of an AI-powered ad tech platform: draft and negotiate commercial agreements, manage IP portfolio and complex IP litigation, advise on AI, data, and privacy matters, counsel product teams on compliance and IP protection, and develop automated legal workflows.