Top Senior Legal Jobs in NYC, NY

Owns legal and regulatory matters for Polymarket’s FCM function, advising product and business teams on CFTC requirements, drafting customer agreements and regulatory submissions, responding to CFTC and NFA inquiries, monitoring enforcement and rulemaking, advising on FCM policies, and supporting litigation strategy.

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.

Provide employment law counsel and manage employment-related litigation and investigations. Draft and review employment documents, advise HCM and business leaders on policy, coordinate with internal groups, manage external counsel, monitor legal developments, and deliver training on employment law topics.

Provide high-level administrative support to attorneys: manage projects, calendars, meetings, travel, billing, and document production. Draft, proofread, organize files, conduct research, liaise with clients and internal teams, mentor support staff, and ensure timely, accurate delivery of legal work products while maintaining confidentiality and professionalism.

Lead the firm's legal entity management function, design and enforce data governance and auditable workflows in GEMS, reconcile entity data across systems, coordinate with internal and external stakeholders, drive process improvements, support system updates and testing, and ensure compliance with regulatory and audit standards (including SOX).

Provide immigration legal services within a Medical-Legal Partnership at Bellevue, including asylum, family-based petitions, adjustment, naturalization, U/T Visas, VAWA, TPS, SIJS, removal defense, benefits access, staff training, clinics and patient know-your-rights workshops. In-person clinic presence up to three days per week and hospital clearance required.

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.

Provide business-oriented legal guidance on U.S. broker-dealer regulation, digital assets, payments, privacy, product launches, marketing, onboarding, regulatory engagement, agreements, policies, and disputes. Monitor SEC, FINRA, CFTC, FinCEN, and OFAC developments; conduct legal research; advise cross-functional teams; and manage litigation, arbitration, outside counsel, claims, and discovery.

Leads Hazel Health’s in-house legal and enterprise compliance functions. Advises on healthcare regulation, telehealth, corporate governance, contracts, privacy, security, employment, risk, and investigations. Builds legal operating systems, templates, playbooks, compliance controls, and matter-management processes while reducing outside-counsel spend. Manages specialized counsel for complex matters and provides candid guidance to executives and the Board.

Administer and optimize contract lifecycle management, AI-assisted legal review, eBilling, and outside counsel systems. Configure workflows, templates, clause libraries, approval routing, integrations, reporting, and user training. Develop legal technology processes, dashboards, KPIs, prompt libraries, and knowledge repositories; support AI governance and cross-functional enablement. Improve contract turnaround times, system adoption, data integrity, compliance, invoice workflows, billing guideline adherence, accrual reporting, and legal spend analytics.

Review and edit deposition transcripts for grammar, formatting, legal accuracy, consistency, confidentiality, and compliance with company and industry standards. Communicate effectively with internal teams, manage multiple assignments independently, and deliver polished transcripts reliably and on time as a remote 1099 contractor. Familiarity with AI transcription platforms is beneficial, and training is provided on proprietary software.

The Senior Counsel provides legal support and representation in transactions, advises on compliance, manages contracts, and conducts legal research.

Serve as Tensec's primary US legal lead covering corporate, regulatory, vendor and client contracting, and multi-jurisdictional compliance. Own regulatory roadmap across BSA/AML, FinCEN, OFAC, MTL/MSB requirements, manage outside counsel, build scalable legal templates and playbooks, advise on AI and data protection obligations, and support People & HR matters across the US, Brazil, and Mexico.

Serve as Freshpaint’s first in-house legal leader, advising the CEO and cross-functional teams on commercial contracting, privacy, data protection, compliance, employment, corporate governance, financing, equity, and intellectual property. Build scalable legal templates, playbooks, workflows, and risk-management processes; negotiate customer, vendor, partner, and technology agreements; embed privacy-by-design practices; and manage outside counsel and legal spend.

Embed as the companys senior in-house lawyer to advise on commercial contracts, NDAs/DPAs, vendor and privacy issues; partner with product, sales, finance and HR; lead legal change projects; build processes, playbooks and the legal function; manage external counsel and legal resourcing.

Oversee and finalize legal documents governing data sharing between Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership members and a trusted third party. Collaborate with CMS, HFPP leadership, partner engagement teams, and private payer partners on agreements, compliance, and negotiations. Present to management, support partner relationships, and ensure legal requirements are met for data governance and sharing.

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.

Provide strategic legal counsel to global and U.S. teams on commercial and strategic agreements, corporate governance, compliance, intellectual property, privacy, security, and product matters. Negotiate customer and vendor contracts, develop templates and playbooks, manage contract and governance systems, support M&A and fundraising, and coordinate outside counsel. Advise business leaders, review marketing and product materials, and partner with compliance teams to address legal and regulatory requirements.

Provide legal guidance on global payment processing, fintech regulation, money movement, licensing, compliance, and digital innovation. Draft and negotiate agreements with payment providers, banks, card networks, vendors, and partners. Advise on KYC/KYB, AML, sanctions, entity structuring, market expansion, chargebacks, settlements, reserves, and emerging technologies. Collaborate with product, technology, operations, and management teams to launch compliant payment products and address legal risks.

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.

Serve as the legal-product bridge, vetting new market categories and features for regulatory exposure, translating legal constraints into product requirements, embedding legal thinking into design, building internal frameworks, monitoring regulatory developments, and making fast defensible decisions to keep product moving while managing compliance risk.

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.

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.

Use specialist Private Equity legal expertise to research, write, edit, and maintain Practical Law content; support development and application of AI-powered legal solutions and internal AI editorial tools; liaise with lawyers and internal teams to ensure content reflects market practice.

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.