Top Legal Jobs in NYC, NY

Analyzes anti-money laundering, counterterrorist financing, and financial-regulatory developments; writes clear legal intelligence briefs; and performs final substantive and copy edits. The role prioritizes coverage, fact-checks content, manages digital publication workflows, supports editorial continuity, and guides other writers. It also requires responsible use of AI-enabled research tools, independent decision-making under deadlines, and collaboration with senior editorial leadership.

Provides administrative and legal support to attorneys by managing case and deal documents, conducting research, preparing filings, coordinating litigation and closings, proofreading legal materials, monitoring court dockets, and handling correspondence. The role also supports corporate formations, UCC filings, document authentication, invoice processing, auditor requests, and client meetings. Requires strong organization, communication, attention to detail, Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat proficiency, and completion of a four-year degree before employment.

Supports SoFi’s Litigation and Arbitration group by managing service-of-process intake, subpoenas, threatened and filed matters, legal correspondence, litigation tracking, invoices, vendors, and legal support workflows. Maintains accurate case records, coordinates with attorneys and outside counsel, supports complex legal requests, and ensures timely responses while handling confidential information and multiple deadlines.

Provide legal counsel for Salesforce AI products and research programs across product development, privacy, data protection, commercial agreements, and strategic transactions. Advise executives, engineers, and product managers; negotiate agreements with technology partners and service providers; support AI-related commercial escalations and transaction diligence; deliver client training; and build strong cross-functional relationships.

Provides legal counsel on ERISA and IRA matters across institutional and retail fiduciary and advisory businesses. Responsibilities include advising on retirement products and services, negotiating investment management agreements and contracts, supporting in-house benefit plans, interpreting legislative and regulatory changes, participating in industry advocacy, preparing training materials, and supporting QPAM compliance. Requires strong knowledge of ERISA fiduciary rules, sound judgment, strategic thinking, and effective collaboration.

Advise ACLU affiliate leaders on strengthening civil rights and civil liberties legal programs. Support legal strategy, docket management, staffing, leadership, cooperating attorney relationships, integrated advocacy, and organizational alignment. Develop network-wide tools, best practices, learning communities, and capacity-building initiatives while facilitating collaboration between national and affiliate teams. The role requires extensive nonprofit legal program experience, strategic advising, facilitation, people management, a JD, and frequent travel.

Provides transactional legal support for private debt activities, including credit agreements, fund finance, structured products, CLOs, SPVs, securitizations, and loan transfers. Drafts and negotiates documentation, supports closings, restructurings, fund formation, and client mandates, and identifies regulatory and tax issues. Coordinates internal workstreams, outside counsel, and cross-border matters while advising on compliance, information barriers, and post-closing portfolio matters.

Provides administrative and litigation support to attorneys in a general liability practice. Responsibilities include preparing and proofreading legal documents, electronic court filings, docket and calendar management, case file organization, deposition and trial preparation, scheduling, client and court communications, and deadline monitoring. The role requires substantial legal assistant experience, familiarity with Pennsylvania court procedures, and proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Interviews police officers, victims, and witnesses; assesses criminal case facts; prepares affidavits and legal documents; gathers records and digital evidence; supports discovery production; reviews Desk Appearance Tickets; maintains case records and deadlines; and collaborates with prosecutors, law enforcement, courts, and agencies in a high-volume environment.

The Senior Counsel will advise leadership on complex legal, contract, intellectual property, nonprofit compliance, governance, lobbying, sponsorship, entertainment, and partnership matters. Responsibilities include negotiating major deals, managing external counsel and legal staff, overseeing event and campaign legal workstreams, leading cross-functional initiatives, improving contract and compliance systems, and implementing enterprise-wide legal training and risk frameworks.

Develops, licenses, and manages analytical tax, accounting, and legal content for professional customers. Responsibilities include researching tax law, legislation, regulations, and case law; writing and editing practical guidance; using generative AI to improve content workflows; recruiting authors and negotiating licensing agreements; and collaborating with editorial, product, technical, sales, and marketing teams. Requires a JD, CPA designation, significant accounting experience, and at least two years each of tax legal and accounting experience.

Provide legal and regulatory advice for physical and financial commodities trading across energy, metals, power, and environmental products. Draft, review, and negotiate commodity financing, hedging, credit, security, storage, and transportation agreements. Advise on CFTC and FERC requirements, bankruptcy and enforceability risks, licensing, collateral, and secured creditor protections. Coordinate with trading, sales, compliance, credit risk, business management, and external counsel across North America and London.

Provide legal advice for equity-linked derivatives transactions, including delta-one and non-delta-one products. Draft, negotiate, and execute derivatives and financing documents; identify and escalate legal, regulatory, and reputational risks; collaborate with business and control teams; and manage external counsel. The role requires expertise in ISDA documentation, U.S. securities laws, broker-dealer regulations, Exchange Act rules, and Title VII, plus experience with complex equity derivatives products.

Advise Goldman Sachs businesses and stakeholders on U.S. consumer deposits, electronic payments, bank regulatory, contractual, and transactional matters. Responsibilities include researching complex legal issues, reviewing product designs, drafting agreements and disclosures, monitoring regulatory developments, developing policies and controls, managing external counsel, and supporting cross-enterprise initiatives. The role requires translating complex regulations into actionable guidance for technology, operations, compliance, risk, and business teams.

Supports Product Legal, IP, and Litigation teams through matter management, product review operations, outside counsel billing, accounts payable, reporting, accruals, dashboards, and legal workflow improvements. Maintains legal data systems, analyzes trends, tracks audits and bankruptcies, interfaces with vendors and internal stakeholders, and assists with AI workflow development. Requires strong analytical, organizational, communication, confidentiality, and multitasking skills.

Provides legal, secretarial, and administrative support to attorneys and paralegals in a trial and defense practice. Responsibilities include preparing and proofreading complex legal documents, filing pleadings in state and federal courts, maintaining calendars and deadlines, assisting with trials and case files, coordinating travel, processing expenses, and supporting billing and client reporting. The role requires at least five years of legal assistant experience, court filing expertise, e-filing knowledge, and proficiency with Microsoft Office and legal document management systems.

Independently manage personal injury and property damage litigation settlements from early resolution through post-Note of Issue. Evaluate cases, conduct legal research, recommend settlement authority, develop resolution strategies, negotiate with opposing parties, attend mediations and court proceedings, and draft settlement documents and legal memoranda. Collaborate with investigators, attorneys, insurers, courts, mediators, and external counsel while supporting complex, high-exposure claims and emergency response assignments.

Own Junior’s legal, regulatory, and compliance function as its first dedicated legal hire. Lead enterprise commercial agreements, privacy and data-use compliance, AI governance, security contracting, IP strategy, corporate and financing matters, vendor agreements, and employment or immigration support. Partner closely with founders, Product, Engineering, Security, Sales, and external counsel while building scalable legal standards and playbooks for a global AI and data-intensive technology business.

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.

Own and administer Ironclad, including workflows, templates, clause libraries, permissions, records, and reporting. Improve legal intake, routing, triage, approvals, electronic signature, filing, and obligation tracking for go-to-market teams. Maintain accurate contract metadata and renewal tracking while serving Sales and Revenue Operations. Build reporting on contract volume, cycle time, bottlenecks, and deviations to drive process improvements. Partner with Legal, Finance, Security, and commercial teams in a high-growth technology company.

Lead securities, public company reporting, corporate governance, entity management, and M&A legal work for GitLab. Manage SEC filings, proxy statements, board matters, equity plans, subsidiary governance, transactions, and outside counsel. Advise senior stakeholders on legal risks, maintain compliance processes, and create scalable legal playbooks, templates, and workflows. Collaborate with globally distributed cross-functional teams and train junior legal professionals.

Leads Blee’s Legal Engineering function, translating advertising, consumer protection, and regulatory requirements into scalable AI review logic. Owns legal frameworks, quality measurement, regulatory updates, customer guidance, product collaboration, and team growth. Partners with legal, compliance, product, implementation, customer success, and AI engineering teams while representing Blee externally. Also supports in-house legal matters, including commercial agreements.

Provides advanced legal and business research, leads complex client-facing projects, develops research plans and deliverables, advises on knowledge management and emerging research technologies, mentors junior researchers, and improves scalable research processes. The role requires independent project ownership, strong client service, sophisticated written and verbal communication, and expertise with legal research databases and information resources.

Provides administrative and legal support to the health system’s contracting and transactional legal functions. Responsibilities include calendar and travel coordination, preparing and circulating documents, managing contract and case files, tracking signatures and execution, maintaining legal databases, conducting vendor sanction and registration checks, organizing discovery and due diligence materials, searching legal records, and training personnel on contract management systems.

The Legal Engineer works with litigators and engineers to translate legal judgment into software workflows. Responsibilities include reviewing AI-generated legal analysis, validating evidence and citations, developing legal guidance and evaluation criteria, testing product features, designing research and case-development workflows, and supporting lawyers using the platform. The role focuses initially on antitrust and requires strong substantive legal analysis, research, writing, and communication skills. Coding is not required, but curiosity about AI and legal technology is important.