Top Legal Jobs in Montreal

Provides legal advice and contract support to procurement, technology, and digital development teams. Drafts and reviews agreements, interprets legislation and regulations, represents the organization in negotiations, coordinates external counsel, and prepares materials for decision-making bodies. The role requires Quebec Bar membership, a law degree, substantial relevant experience including information technology experience, and advanced French and English proficiency.

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.

Supports three or more litigation lawyers by preparing legal proceedings, letters, correspondence, and case materials. Manages deadlines, calendars, client communications, meetings, hearings, and paper and electronic files. Reviews documents for procedural and grammatical compliance, coordinates schedules, and handles a high volume of matters. Requires bilingual French-English communication, strong Microsoft Office skills, legal terminology knowledge, attention to detail, organization, discretion, and the ability to work productively in a hybrid environment.

Provides legal advice and negotiates agreements supporting venture capital, growth equity, private equity, and strategic investment transactions. Collaborates with internal teams, coordinates external counsel, researches legal issues, and delivers coaching and business-oriented guidance. The role requires strong transactional law expertise, negotiation, judgment, analytical skills, and the ability to manage multiple complex files. Bilingual English and French capability is an asset.

Supports the Litigation and Montreal Legal teams by managing administrative tasks, scheduling, travel, expenses, budgets, legal invoices, document filing, legal matters, presentations, and communications with internal teams and external counsel. The role requires strong organization, confidentiality, judgment, adaptability, and bilingual French-English communication in a high-volume hybrid environment.

Leads the Legal Department and provides strategic counsel on commercial real estate activities. Oversees acquisitions, dispositions, financing, leases, litigation, contracts, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, and internal tax matters. Manages the legal team, mitigates risks, advises internal stakeholders, and ensures legal consistency across company operations.

Provides senior legal counsel, interprets laws and regulations, issues legal opinions, drafts policies and agreements, represents the organization in court, and leads complex strategic legal initiatives. Advises stakeholders and decision-making bodies, develops litigation strategies, prepares pleadings and witnesses, negotiates settlements, and serves as a subject matter expert and coach across the organization.

Lead commercial, procurement, and corporate legal work for Unit8’s Canadian and US operations. Negotiate client, vendor, software, data protection, IP, and partnership agreements; advise sales, delivery, and finance teams; manage templates and playbooks; oversee corporate governance; and coordinate external counsel. Manage a junior European legal counsel, report legal risks and spend to the CFO, and build an AI-enabled contract review process. The role is based in Montreal with hybrid work and occasional Canadian, US, and European travel.

Provides legal, regulatory, compliance, and administrative support across Quebec and Eastern Canada. Responsibilities include managing legal files, court pleadings, investigations, dispute resolution, external counsel coordination, CNESST matters, regulatory updates, and policy implementation. The role advises management, coaches stakeholders, supports parity committee activities, and attends court or mediation proceedings. Fluency in French and English, legal education, relevant experience, sound judgment, and willingness to travel are required.

Leads legal and regulatory compliance programs, policies, action plans, and strategic initiatives across the organization. Advises internal stakeholders and decision-making bodies, analyzes complex compliance issues, represents the unit externally, supports agreements with partners, and promotes ethics and compliance through employee programs and coaching.

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.

Privacy and Regulatory Counsel will advise a technology company on U.S. and international privacy, consumer protection, regulatory, AI, cybersecurity, and emerging technology matters. Responsibilities include developing compliance and governance programs, interpreting regulations, advising business and product teams, negotiating commercial agreements, supporting responsible AI policies, and monitoring legislative developments. The role requires collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders and provides broader corporate legal support.

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 legal counsel across SAP’s Canadian operations, including commercial contract negotiations, sales and services support, public-sector engagements, bid risk management, regulatory compliance, data privacy, governance, and French-language advisory. Independently manages diverse legal matters, negotiates contracts in English and French, advises stakeholders, uses AI tools, and collaborates with legal teams globally.

Provides business-focused legal advice for Dealer Services, with emphasis on insurance, consumer protection, regulatory analysis, commercial agreements, and product development. The role supports legislative changes, collaborates with Compliance and Risk Management, negotiates contracts, contributes to insurance and warranty offerings, and participates in industry committees and organizational improvement initiatives.

Provides practical legal advice on commercial contracts, regulatory compliance, data privacy, employment matters, and vendor and sales agreements. Drafts and negotiates SaaS, technology, consulting, and service contracts; supports procurement, sales, and HR teams; monitors global legal developments; and advises on compliance. Leads adoption of automation, AI, and legal technology to improve legal operations and supports scalable processes for a fully remote technology company.

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.

Supports Docker’s Legal team with contract intake, routing, playbook-based review, approvals, signature coordination, outside counsel billing, legal technology administration, AI workflow testing, reporting, documentation, training, and process improvement. The role partners cross-functionally with Sales, Deal Desk, Finance, Product, and Engineering while maintaining legal systems, dashboards, standard operating procedures, and knowledge resources.

Leads the commercial legal function for an AI networking infrastructure company. Responsibilities include structuring and negotiating customer, supplier, technology, licensing, manufacturing, procurement, and strategic partnership agreements; advising executives on commercial, intellectual property, privacy, security, and regulatory risks; and partnering with Product, Engineering, Sales, Operations, and Supply Chain. The role also builds scalable contracting processes, templates, playbooks, approval frameworks, self-service tools, and legal technology infrastructure, with potential to manage a growing team.

Leads the legal function across a complex, multi-entity California organization. Advises CEOs, executives, boards, and affiliated entities on corporate, commercial, contracts, governance, regulatory, real estate, risk, and business matters. Oversees outside counsel, supports healthcare and senior living operations, manages enterprise legal risks, and provides strategic guidance across nonprofit, investment, insurance, and property-related activities.

Lead the legal function for a growing deep-technology company, advising the CEO, executive team, and Board on governance, financing, commercial agreements, infrastructure development, intellectual property, government contracting, and compliance. The General Counsel will manage and develop a legal team, oversee outside counsel, support commercialization and strategic partnerships, and build scalable legal processes, policies, technology, and capabilities.

Supports the Legal Department with clinical research contracts, contract execution, legal documentation, privacy assessments, regulatory compliance, audits, and corporate governance activities. Maintains contract databases and document systems, conducts legal and regulatory research, develops legal templates and SOPs, and coordinates with internal stakeholders, external counsel, notaries, and regulators. The role requires strong organizational skills, confidentiality, contract administration expertise, and familiarity with clinical research, GCP, and privacy regulations.

Conduct high-volume legal document review and analysis for professional liability litigation files. Draft memoranda, identify and extract key legal information, support examinations for discovery, attend team meetings, and assist with case strategy development. The role requires bilingual French-English communication, strong legal judgment, attention to detail, and membership in good standing with the Barreau du Québec. This is a full-time, primarily remote, six-month contract with possible extension.

Advise procurement and business teams on commercial contracts, draft and negotiate SaaS, licensing, goods and services, partnership, and other agreements. Develop risk-mitigation strategies covering intellectual property, indemnification, liability, warranties, and technology licensing. Enable timely supplier agreements while balancing legal, operational, technical, and cost objectives across business units.

Manage Genetec’s Canadian and international legal entities, corporate governance, compliance programs, and broad commercial contract portfolio. Advise departments on practical legal matters, ensure regulatory compliance, coordinate with external counsel, and support international business growth. The role requires strong corporate and commercial law experience, legal project leadership, knowledge of international frameworks, Quebec or Canadian Bar membership, and fluency in French and English.