Top Senior Legal Jobs in NYC, NY

Develops and executes litigation, legal policy, and advocacy strategies affecting the pharmaceutical industry. Advises senior leaders and business functions, manages complex litigation, investigations, disputes, and outside counsel, and engages with government agencies, attorneys general, trade associations, and industry stakeholders. Monitors legal and policy developments involving drug development, pricing, access, and reimbursement while advancing Lilly’s policy objectives.

Legal Assistant supporting a litigation defense firm with insurance defense matters, including auto, trucking, transportation, commercial litigation, premises liability, and bodily injury cases. Responsibilities require strong organization, multitasking, communication, knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and state and federal court rules. Prior trial experience is preferred.

Provides in-house labor and employment counsel, advises Human Resources and business stakeholders, ensures legal compliance, manages outside employment counsel, and supports litigation, labor relations, benefits, and employment policies. Drafts and negotiates commercial customer agreements involving services, data, and information technology. Develops customer-focused legal solutions, contributes to functional strategy, solves complex business problems, and operates independently in a demanding environment.

Handles complex professional liability claims, especially legal malpractice claims. Responsibilities include evaluating coverage, assessing risk transfer, investigating liability and damages, setting reserves, managing litigation and counsel, negotiating resolutions, communicating claim exposures, and developing strategies for favorable outcomes. Periodic travel is required for mediations, trials, and related meetings.

Lead complex global partner and channel transactions, including reseller, referral, MSP, OEM, systems integrator, and strategic alliance agreements. Advise business leaders on deal structures, negotiations, legal risks, and commercial solutions while collaborating across sales, product, privacy, security, finance, tax, engineering, operations, and compliance. Develop scalable contracting templates, playbooks, policies, training, and workflows for the company’s expanding partnerships program.

Provide in-house legal counsel for procurement, supply chain, logistics, operations and real estate across North America. Draft, review, and negotiate vendor and service agreements, manage vendor disputes and pre-litigation issues, support M&A due diligence, develop contracting templates and playbooks, and advise on operational risk, compliance, and strategic transformation initiatives.

Supports litigation attorneys with evening electronic court filings, document drafting and formatting, court-rule compliance, redactions, exhibits, and page stamping. Tracks filings requiring signatures, manages overflow requests, coordinates with a remote support team, and handles administrative tasks including timesheets, expenses, and travel bookings. The role is remote after a 30-day in-office onboarding period and requires Pacific Time evening hours.

Provides corporate governance and securities regulatory counsel for Goldman Sachs Group and Goldman Sachs Bank USA. Responsibilities include supporting boards and committees, preparing governance materials, maintaining policies, managing director and executive processes, handling regulatory filings and requests, overseeing signing authority, and advising on governance matters. The role requires strong legal judgment, project management, attention to detail, executive presence, and at least five years of relevant experience.

The Director, Legal and Compliance will enhance compliance frameworks, support investment teams, and manage regulatory requirements for OMERS Infrastructure's global operations.

Provides administrative and litigation support to multiple attorneys, including drafting and proofreading pleadings and legal correspondence, electronic court filings, calendar management, new matter opening, retainer preparation, case data entry, time entry, expense processing, and general office support. Requires strong organization, accuracy, multitasking, advanced Microsoft Word skills, and law firm experience.

Supervise immigration attorneys and paralegals serving hospital-based legal clinics; oversee case strategies, training, scheduling, grants, reporting, stakeholder coordination, and a small caseload. Handle complex immigration matters, benefits access, medical deferred action, stays of removal, and prosecutorial discretion requests. Represent LegalHealth in trainings, policy initiatives, legislative and stakeholder engagements, and internal committees while supporting program protocols and team coverage.

Lead commercial legal work for infrastructure debt transactions, debt investment management agreements, new debt products, restructurings, and corporate projects. Advise investment and infrastructure teams on legal, regulatory, financing, and risk matters across the US, UK, and occasionally APAC. Negotiate transaction documents, support diligence and execution, manage external counsel, improve legal processes, and provide practical advice to senior stakeholders.

Own the full contract lifecycle from intake through execution, including drafting, reviewing, redlining, negotiating, and tracking commercial agreements. Partner with Sales, Finance, Insurance, and other stakeholders to resolve terms, manage risk, and accelerate deal closure. Identify and escalate legal issues, support counterparties, and improve contracting workflows and processes. The role also includes security awareness compliance and escalation of security risks.

Advise Booking Holdings’ fintech business on U.S. and Americas payments and financial-services regulation, including money transmission licensing, BSA compliance, regulatory strategy, product development, consumer protection, privacy, and cross-border issues. Partner with business, technology, risk, compliance, finance, and public affairs teams; manage outside counsel; engage regulators; monitor emerging laws; and provide commercially practical advice on payments products and strategic initiatives.

Supports the Legal & Regulatory team with real estate lending and loan-closing operations. Responsibilities include managing corporate legal records in iManage, coordinating regulatory books and records processes, preparing legal and organizational documents, tracking side-letter restrictions, handling KYC information, managing investor questionnaires, coordinating quarterly reports and approvals, reconciling compliance and personnel data, and formatting business documents. The role requires strong organization, attention to detail, communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple deadlines.

Manage day-to-day corporate legal operations, including legal request intake, document drafting and redlining, contract administration, records and deadline management, outside counsel coordination, filings, legal research, and process improvement. The role supports leadership and internal teams across Finance, HR, Sales, and Operations while handling confidential matters independently.

Negotiate and structure commercial agreements across the ad tech and digital advertising ecosystem, including publisher, advertiser, agency, platform, vendor, data licensing, and insertion order agreements. Advise on privacy, data security, consumer protection, intellectual property, and regulatory issues. Partner with sales, product, engineering, finance, marketing, and operations teams, develop scalable legal processes, and use AI tools to improve contract workflows.

Lead commercial contract negotiations and privacy matters for SaaS and technology transactions. Draft, review, and negotiate customer, partner, vendor, reseller, licensing, subscription, and data protection agreements. Advise cross-functional teams on commercial, regulatory, and privacy issues; maintain contract templates, policies, and legal processes; and independently manage multiple matters within a globally distributed organization.

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.

Build and manage legal operations for a high-growth AI infrastructure company. Responsibilities include contract lifecycle workflows, legal intake, AI-enabled tooling, corporate records, board and stockholder administration, entity compliance, registered-agent coordination, stock administration, outside counsel management, and legal spend. The role requires building processes from scratch, configuring Ironclad or similar CLM systems, applying AI tools thoughtfully, and exercising sound judgment on escalation.

Provides specialized commercial legal advice, identifies and mitigates legal risks, advises on laws and regulations, manages legal matters, partners with business stakeholders, coordinates with external counsel, and escalates complex issues to senior legal leadership. The role supports business strategy and global operations through regulatory research, compliance guidance, and strategic recommendations.

Supports the North American legal team with corporate governance, regulatory compliance, corporate secretarial functions, legal operations, and administrative coordination. Responsibilities include maintaining corporate records, managing filings and document execution, tracking compliance deadlines, supporting KYC and due diligence, administering contracts and legal databases, coordinating litigation and audit records, handling budgets and invoices, and supporting stakeholders, training, and process improvement initiatives.

Directs legal claims recovery services involving bankruptcy preference and avoidance actions under Sections 547, 550, and 502. Oversees demand letters, complaints, defense analyses, settlements, mediations, litigation support, case tracking, client and counsel communications, and administrative staff. Personally manages a high-volume caseload, evaluates transaction data and defenses, coordinates portfolio activities, and ensures timely filings, service, settlements, and fund recovery. Requires substantial corporate bankruptcy or restructuring experience and strong Excel proficiency.

Leads Legal and Compliance operations, including process improvement, legal technology, contract lifecycle management, outside counsel and vendor oversight, budgeting, reporting, insurance administration, risk tracking, and cross-functional projects. The role develops scalable workflows, dashboards, procedures, and knowledge systems while supporting compliance and efficient legal service delivery in a biopharmaceutical environment.

Leads GreenLight’s legal and compliance function, focusing on workforce compliance, worker classification, employment law, commercial contracts, international legal coordination, product compliance, privacy, fraud prevention, and responsible AI. Advises leadership, manages outside counsel, supports escalations and investigations, translates regulations into scalable processes and product controls, and strengthens contracting, partner oversight, and compliance operations.