Top Legal Jobs in Ottawa

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.

Lead development and implementation of AI legal and compliance frameworks. Conduct cross-functional AI reviews, maintain governance docs (model cards, impact assessments), partner with engineering on transparency and fairness requirements, build incident response and monitoring processes, and scale AI legal review workflows.

Reviews and evaluates legal, commercial, compliance, and contract documents for accuracy, completeness, clarity, risks, and adherence to standards. Provides structured, objective feedback and recommendations using professional judgment and established guidelines. Requires independent remote work, strong analytical and communication skills, attention to detail, and familiarity with commercial agreements, compliance materials, and document review.

Review and evaluate legal, grant, ESG, policy, and compliance documents for accuracy, quality, completeness, clarity, and relevance. Provide structured feedback, identify errors and compliance concerns, compare outputs against standards, and document recommendations. Work independently on flexible, fully remote evaluation projects using professional judgment and established guidelines.

Own product and engineering as a technical co-founder, writing production code and setting the technical direction. Harden AI voice and workflow systems, build the managed RaaS delivery infrastructure, establish reliability and observability standards, optimize AI quality and cost-per-call, and guide the roadmap toward scalable AI staff products and self-hosted models. Represent the venture with customers and investors, recruit the founding engineering team, and lead technical execution.

Own go-to-market execution for legal technology products, including launches, positioning, messaging, sales enablement, customer and competitive research, campaigns, webinars, events, and digital programs. Collaborate with product, engineering, sales, and customer success teams to align GTM activities, track pipeline and engagement results, and improve growth outcomes. The role also requires strong writing, project management, stakeholder communication, and customer empathy.

Provide legal support for construction bids and projects, draft/review/negotiate CCDC, Design-Build, EPC, subcontract and consultant agreements; advise project teams daily; manage construction disputes and direct external counsel; liaise with clients, partners and subcontractors; contribute to in-house corporate/commercial legal operations.

Lead BEC Legal Systems with full P&L ownership, setting strategy and driving profitable growth. Oversee cross-functional teams across product, sales, marketing, support, and operations while improving customer retention, operational scalability, and market position. The President will manage recurring-revenue performance, talent development, stakeholder communication, and potential mergers and integrations within the Legal Tech business.

Conduct client interviews and process analysis to identify legal workflow automation opportunities. Create process maps, requirements, solution designs, and documentation; configure and test no-code or low-code workflows; troubleshoot and support CLM and legal AI tools. Facilitate workshops, presentations, and problem solving while managing project scope, timelines, budgets, reporting, and client delivery. Collaborate with legal, engineering, and development teams to improve enterprise legal operations.

The Consultant will lead legal technology projects, manage client relationships, gather requirements, and support process design and implementation in the legal industry.

The Legal Claims Assistant II will support the Legal Claims Department by managing files, scheduling legal events, and handling document preparation in a digital environment.

Provide independent insurance defence litigation across property, casualty and accident benefits files. Draft pleadings, affidavits, opinions and hearing materials; conduct discoveries, mediations, LAT hearings, trials and other dispute resolution processes. Collaborate with internal teams, coach colleagues, report on claims with indemnity/expense control focus, and support senior counsel as needed.

Provides administrative and litigation support to attorneys handling civil litigation and insurance defense cases. Responsibilities include drafting, formatting, filing and e-filing legal documents; docketing deadlines; managing case files and calendars; scheduling depositions, hearings and calls; coordinating travel; assisting with trial preparation; and communicating with clients and courts.

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.

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

Provide legal advice to management and business teams, draft and negotiate commercial contracts, manage litigation/arbitration and external counsel, develop legal risk mitigation processes, and ensure compliance across product, sales, and operations for consumer finance and fintech activities.

Serve as legal domain expert bridging clients and internal engineering to define negotiation playbooks, translate legal rules into prompts/specs, validate AI outputs, lead UAT, and guide integration of GenAI and CLM contract tools for complex commercial negotiation workflows.

Act as a bilingual legal-technology expert architecting AI-powered contract solutions and drafting CLM redlining rules (80%). Serve as legal tech SME in client meetings, test and improve AI legal tools, train global teams, and handle in-house client/supplier contracts, compliance, and corporate governance (20%).

Leads the global legal function, managing a seven-person team and advising senior executives. Responsibilities include IPO readiness, corporate governance across approximately 50 global entities, legal department modernization, AI and legal technology implementation, process development, outside counsel management, and practical risk-focused business guidance. The role requires substantial private practice and in-house experience, strong corporate governance expertise, global legal experience, and a U.S. law license.

Provide practical legal advice to a global SaaS company across commercial contracts, privacy and healthcare regulation, litigation, employment, corporate governance, law enforcement requests, IP, and brand enforcement. Build scalable AI-enabled legal processes, collaborate with cross-functional teams, manage risk, draft and negotiate agreements, and mentor colleagues.

As a Contracts Specialist, you will optimize and manage the contracting process, enhancing operational efficiency and facilitating legal communication within the company.

As the first in-house legal counsel, you will manage legal frameworks, corporate governance, compliance, contract management, regulatory matters, and risk mitigation while advising the executive team.

The Legal and Business Affairs Manager will manage commercial contracts, ensure compliance standards, oversee legal operations, and mitigate risks in collaboration with various teams.

Lead legal project management across complex, high-value matters: build trusted partner relationships, drive matter planning, budgets, and profitability, support client transparency, champion AI/automation and data tools, develop LPM frameworks, and mentor junior team members while embedding LPM firmwide.

Provides hands-on legal operations support, including routing legal requests, preparing documents, maintaining contract records, reviewing routine commercial agreements, coordinating signatures, and improving legal intake and document workflows. Supports employment, procurement, compliance, vendor management, and other legal matters while working cross-functionally. Requires strong organization, discretion, contract experience, familiarity with legal systems, and a current or promptly obtainable notary commission.