Top Legal Jobs in NYC, NY

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 senior legal counsel for trading and treasury functions across US and London/EUR markets. Lead negotiations on prime brokerage, ISDA/CSA, securities lending, repurchase, and banking documentation. Advise on regulatory compliance for transaction reporting, clearing, margin, custody, and collateral. Partner with Risk, Treasury, and business teams and manage cross-functional projects.

Provide employment-law counsel across the Americas: advise HR and management on hiring, performance, wage/hour, benefits, leaves, investigations, terminations, restructurings, and compliance; manage litigation and agency matters; draft and negotiate employment agreements; develop policies and trainings; monitor legal developments; manage outside counsel and support cross-functional business needs.

Provides legal and regulatory counsel on SEC, FINRA, CFTC, and NFA requirements for securities, derivatives, tokenized securities, prediction markets, and related products. Advises business teams on product launches, contracts, policies, licensing, marketing materials, and cross-border compliance. Represents the company before the SEC, coordinates with external counsel, manages regulatory risks, and supports regulated exchange and broker-dealer operations.

Provides in-house legal and regulatory counsel to investment, operations, compliance, and leadership teams supporting private and registered credit funds. Responsibilities include fund formation, documentation, governance, compliance, marketing and distribution, regulatory monitoring, conflicts, trading restrictions, and external counsel management across private credit, structured credit, direct lending, asset-based lending, and CLO strategies.

Provides administrative, operational, and coordination support for derivatives documentation, including ISDAs, prime brokerage agreements, futures and options agreements, securities lending, and repurchase agreements. Manages counterparty credit reviews, KYC/AML requests, legal entity data, document portals, negotiation tracking, and agreement records. Collaborates with trading, operations, risk, tax, and external providers while escalating onboarding risks and maintaining accurate documentation.

Provides administrative and legal support for patent prosecution matters. Responsibilities include generating patent portfolio reports, preparing and filing USPTO documents, managing assignments and declarations, organizing file histories, monitoring patent deadlines, drafting and proofreading correspondence and filings, and coordinating with attorneys, patent agents, paralegals, inventors, clients, and vendors. The role requires strong organization, calendaring, database, document-management, and communication skills, along with 2–3 years of patent prosecution experience.

Leads legal and compliance operations as the General Counsel’s chief of staff, managing cross-functional projects, legal technology, entity governance, transactions, commercial contracting workflows, risk programs, audits, vendors, and operational metrics. The role improves processes across Legal, HR, Finance, Product, Sales, and executive leadership while supporting global compliance and corporate growth.

Senior Legal Counsel responsible for building and scaling the corporate legal function, managing equity programs, supporting securities offerings, financings, investments, M&A, JVs, and strategic transactions. The role oversees corporate governance, entity administration, compliance, executive compensation, board and stockholder meetings, and transaction readiness. This counsel will collaborate across Finance, HR, Marketing, and other teams while also supporting commercial, privacy, product, intellectual property, employment, and litigation matters.

Provides legal support across portfolio management and capital development, including drafting and negotiating investment management, employment, fund, side letter, placement agent, loan, and transaction documents. Handles portfolio manager onboarding and offboarding, fund formation, investor communications, strategic transactions, and regulatory matters while partnering with senior executives, internal stakeholders, outside counsel, and advisers.

Lead legal structuring and operation of US private equity feeder funds, primarily Delaware limited partnerships. Draft and negotiate LPAs, PPMs, subscription documents, and complex agreements; conduct fund-manager and service-provider due diligence; advise on product launches, co-investments, and secondary markets; manage external counsel; and oversee SEC, FINRA, Form ADV, Form D, and Blue Sky filings. Partner with Sales, Operations, and global legal teams to support US growth.

Represent detained and non-detained immigrants in removal proceedings and related asylum, humanitarian, and family-based matters. Conduct screenings, prepare legal filings, attend immigration and family court proceedings, track cases, collaborate with community partners, participate in outreach, and mentor volunteers. The role requires Spanish fluency, litigation experience, trauma-informed advocacy, and a commitment to immigrant rights and social justice.

Build and lead Concourse’s legal function as its first legal hire. Own government contracting, commercial agreements, privacy, security, AI regulation, corporate governance, financings, employment, IP, and vendor matters. Create legal templates, playbooks, and self-service processes, advise product and go-to-market teams, and use AI tools to automate legal workflows. The role requires in-office work in New York City.

Legal Counsel will support US expansion by negotiating complex B2B SaaS agreements, advising AI and engineering teams on product risks, managing privacy and security compliance across jurisdictions, and developing scalable legal policies and processes. The role partners with executive leadership and addresses novel generative AI legal issues in a fast-growing technology startup.

Support digital asset regulatory research, product and go-to-market legal reviews, commercial contracts, AML/KYC compliance, privacy matters, corporate governance, intellectual property administration, and regulatory or litigation responses. The associate will work closely with product, engineering, commercial teams, senior legal leadership, and outside counsel, assuming ownership of a defined legal area within 6–12 months.

Provide legal advice to product, sales, and local teams across multiple regions; negotiate and draft complex commercial and technology agreements; coordinate with local counsel and manage external advisors; support regulatory strategy, market entry, and government/regulator outreach for fintech/payments products.

Lead Legal & Government Affairs operations by owning legal tech platforms, vendor and budget management, metrics and OKRs, AI adoption governance, cross-vertical operational support, and building a high-performing legal operations team to scale the function during hyper-growth and public-company complexity.

The Legal Counsel will support all legal matters, handle contracts, compliance, and provide legal guidance for a fast-growing SaaS company, with a focus on the AI space.

Negotiate delinquent accounts with law firms to secure reduced balances, extended payment terms, or lump-sum settlements. Review legal documents, manage escalated portfolios and client accounts, maintain attorney relationships, meet monthly settlement and compliance goals, and handle high-volume inbound/outbound calls to resolve lawsuits and prevent further legal action.

Provides administrative and legal support to attorneys, including preparing and proofreading documents, managing calendars, filing court documents, organizing client files, assisting with billing, communicating with clients and courts, conducting basic legal research, and supporting discovery and trial preparation.

Law reform legal interns support impact litigation and policy initiatives addressing systemic issues affecting Legal Aid clients. Responsibilities may include legal and factual research, client interviewing, discovery and trial practice, drafting legal papers and policy memoranda, legislative testimony, and related projects. Applicants must be second-year law students in good standing with strong research, writing, communication, analytical, and project-completion skills, plus a commitment to racial and social justice.

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.

Provides legal counsel to the Division of Youth and Family Justice on juvenile justice, youth custody, policies, confidentiality, subpoenas, legislation, and compliance matters. Represents the division in Family, Supreme, and other courts; coordinates with legal services, law enforcement, and agency counsel; drafts court documents, policies, procedures, reports, and program materials; and responds to urgent legal issues and staff requests.

Represent immigrants in USCIS applications and Immigration Court proceedings; screen clients, prepare filings and supporting documents, conduct consultations, organize legal clinics and community presentations, train partner organizations, coordinate outreach, track cases, and submit reports. The role requires collaboration with attorneys, paralegals, community organizations, clients, and courts, along with a commitment to immigrant communities, social justice, and anti-racism.

Provides strategic legal and regulatory advice on derivatives, structured products, and capital markets trading matters. Drafts and negotiates ISDA Master Agreements, CSAs, control agreements, risk participation agreements, confirmations, and related documentation. Advises trading, sales, risk, compliance, and operations teams on derivatives regulations, margin requirements, risk mitigation, and business solutions. Acts as a legal subject matter expert, manages external counsel, resolves complex issues, and supports global capital markets initiatives.