Top Legal Jobs in Ottawa

Supports and scales Dropbox’s Legal operations by designing workflows, managing legal technology, tracking KPIs, coordinating vendors and outside counsel, maintaining knowledge repositories, and leading process-improvement projects. The role configures and troubleshoots JSM and related platforms, supports system rollouts and user training, partners with IT and business teams, and identifies automation opportunities to improve efficiency and self-service.

Manage insurance defense litigation files involving property, casualty, and accident benefits disputes. Draft legal opinions, pleadings, affidavits, mediation briefs, and tribunal documents; conduct discoveries, examinations, mediations, arbitrations, hearings, and trials. Assess claims, control indemnity and expenses, support senior counsel, collaborate with legal teams, and coach colleagues.

Draft reference plans and survey deliverables using CAD software, complete plan closures and corrections, process field and 3D scan data, analyze metes and bounds descriptions, and apply surveying, coordinate-system, datum, CAD, and quality-control standards. The role also requires reviewing field notes and photos, coordinating with field crews, identifying research needs, troubleshooting drafting issues, and contributing to workflow improvements.

Provides litigation support to attorneys handling civil litigation and insurance defense cases. Responsibilities include drafting and e-filing pleadings, managing case calendars and deadlines, scheduling depositions and hearings, coordinating travel, preparing for trials, organizing documents, and communicating with clients and courts. Requires strong knowledge of California state and federal court procedures, proficiency with Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat, and excellent organizational and communication skills.

Supervises Legal Bill Analysts reviewing and entering high-volume legal invoices for accuracy, claim and law-firm assignment, cost control, and regulatory compliance. Manages legal billing software, firms, users, workflows, vendor support, reporting, quality reviews, and process improvements. Provides team leadership, performance feedback, problem resolution, and analytical support to Finance and Claims teams.

Provides legal advice to the Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations on statutory instruments, delegated law-making powers, statutory interpretation, and administrative law. Drafts complex legal opinions and correspondence to government departments, appears before the committee, conducts legal research, and advises on novel regulatory and procedural issues. Requires a law degree, provincial or territorial law society membership, recent legal research and opinion-drafting experience, bilingual proficiency, and successful security screening.

Supports international legal operations across LATAM, including drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, legal and regulatory research, litigation support, corporate housekeeping, compliance projects, certification processes, and regulator communications. Maintains contract repositories and legal libraries, tracks deadlines and certifications, coordinates with external counsel, testing laboratories, vendors, and regulators, and prepares reports for leadership. Requires a law degree, active bar membership, fluent English and Spanish, strong organization, and attention to detail.

Legal Counsel will advise on commercial contracts, privacy, AI governance, employment, and corporate matters for a hardware-enabled SaaS business. Responsibilities include negotiating enterprise agreements, supporting Canadian, US, and EU privacy compliance, managing privacy incidents and AI governance, advising on employment law, managing outside counsel, and creating scalable legal processes, templates, playbooks, and self-service tools. The role requires autonomous cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Finance, HR, Product, and Engineering.

Provides legal advice and transaction support for project, infrastructure, acquisition, and structured finance. Drafts and negotiates complex financing and security documents, advises on risk allocation and lender protections, manages due diligence, supervises external counsel, and supports syndicated transactions. The role also develops legal precedents, processes, training, and guidance while helping establish FCC’s Project Finance business line.

Leads legal project management for complex matters, partnering with attorneys, clients, pricing teams, and business development to manage scope, budgets, timelines, resources, profitability, and client transparency. Builds matter plans, dashboards, playbooks, workflows, and predictive budgeting tools; drives AI and automation adoption; establishes a new LPM operating model; supports change management and training; and mentors junior team members.

Head of Legal will serve as Develop Health’s first in-house lawyer, owning commercial contracts, negotiations, legal processes, compliance partnership, outside counsel, and financing support. The role will create contract templates, playbooks, fallback positions, escalation rules, and self-service tools while advising product and engineering on compliant solutions. This hands-on individual contributor role reports to the CEO and works onsite three days weekly in Menlo Park or San Francisco.

Provides strategic legal counsel to insurance business units on product development, rate filings, distribution, regulatory compliance, market conduct, technology initiatives, intellectual property, marketing, and advertising. Conducts complex legal research, advises on regulatory changes, supports inquiries, liaises with regulators, and participates in industry associations. Requires Canadian legal qualifications, provincial bar membership, and at least five years of insurance or corporate law experience.

Own legal operations, contract lifecycle management, agreement triage, templates, repositories, outside counsel billing, legal spend, corporate governance, cap table maintenance, transaction support, and claims and litigation coordination. Administer legal technology, build operational dashboards, improve workflows through automation, and partner with Finance, Accounting, People Operations, Compliance, and business teams.

Provides commercial and technology legal support across three Canadian businesses. Drafts and negotiates customer, supplier, distribution, software, SaaS, licensing, services, and government agreements; advises on IP, privacy, cybersecurity, employment, trade controls, sanctions, anti-corruption, and corporate governance. Maintains contract processes, manages outside counsel and legal budgets, supports disputes and settlements, and coordinates with business leaders and global headquarters counsel.

Coordinates attorney transitions including lateral arrivals, secondments, departures, and retirements. Manages timelines, stakeholders, conflicts and intake processes, matter openings, data transfers, communications, and transition documentation. Supports secondment lifecycle management and provides concierge-level assistance to incoming laterals. Maintains trackers and dashboards, analyzes process data, recommends improvements, and ensures information governance procedures are followed. Acts as a project coordinator and subject matter expert across multiple law firm business-services functions.

Supports intellectual property attorneys and patent agents with U.S. and foreign patent prosecution filings, docket management, deadline tracking, client correspondence, electronic submissions, file maintenance, billing, expense reporting, and attorney calendar coordination. The role requires strong knowledge of patent prosecution procedures, IP terminology, legal filing systems, office technology, and client service. It also delegates clerical tasks, coordinates file transfers, and ensures accurate, timely completion of work.

Director of Legal will build and lead RZR’s in-house legal function, owning commercial contracting, DPAs, templates, negotiation playbooks, legal workflows, and outside counsel management. The role advises the CEO and leadership team, triages employment and general legal matters, supports sales and partnerships, manages disputes, and coordinates with parent-company legal teams. The position requires independent judgment under US law and may expand into a broader legal remit as the company grows.

Provides corporate and commercial legal counsel across contracts, governance, regulatory compliance, privacy, risk management, real estate, marketing, employment, and litigation. Drafts and negotiates agreements, advises cross-functional teams, supports corporate governance and investigations, manages external counsel, leads legal projects, and mentors junior associates.

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.

Leads enterprise technology strategy, delivery, and transformation across Finance, FinTech, Legal, and Risk. Oversees product platforms, Agile and DevOps adoption, AI and data initiatives, digital transformation, change management, vendor partnerships, governance, and technology operations. Partners with executive stakeholders to align global priorities, integrate platforms, manage dependencies, and deliver scalable, secure, value-driven outcomes across a federated enterprise technology organization.

The Legal Manager will draft and negotiate agreements, support compliance with privacy regulations, manage vendor contracts, and contribute to legal automation and team development.

Leads Legal Innovation & Operations strategy, including legal technology roadmaps, systems optimization, automation and AI initiatives. Oversees CLM, eBilling, knowledge management, and workflow platforms; manages budgets, vendors, and third-party spend; and delivers cross-functional projects with Legal, IT, Finance, Policy, and business teams. The role translates business needs into technology solutions and drives operational excellence through process improvement and data-driven insights.

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.

Serve as Spellbook’s in-house transactional legal expert and product strategist. Support sales calls, demos, RFPs, training, and customer enablement; develop legal workflow playbooks and thought-leadership content; present at webinars and industry events; and translate customer workflows into product requirements. Collaborate with product, engineering, sales, and customers to discover, develop, and test AI-powered legal technology features.

Analyzes complex financial and business data, develops KPI reports and dashboards, and translates findings into polished visual narratives and presentations. The role supports senior leadership decision-making, presents insights to nontechnical stakeholders, manages competing analytical requests, and collaborates with Finance, BI, legal, marketing, and HR teams. It requires advanced Excel and PowerPoint proficiency, data visualization experience, strong communication skills, and at least four years of related experience.