Top Legal Jobs in Montreal

Provide practical legal and regulatory guidance for AI, software, hardware, data, and climate technology products throughout the product lifecycle. Advise product, engineering, design, marketing, and technology teams on privacy, security, AI governance, and global regulations. Draft and negotiate partnership, commercial, and third-party agreements; review customer-facing content; enhance compliance programs; and create scalable legal playbooks, policies, templates, and training.

Provides strategic commercial legal counsel to AbbVie Canada across marketing, medical affairs, trade, market access, promotion, patient support, collaborations, and regulatory compliance. Drafts and negotiates commercial and corporate agreements, advises executives on Canadian law, manages complex legal matters and outside counsel, supports global initiatives, and mentors junior attorneys. The role requires independent judgment, business partnership, and fluency in French and English.

As Legal Counsel for Corporate and Transactional Affairs, you will advise on mergers, acquisitions, and corporate financing, manage legal documents, and interact with regulatory authorities.

Provides expert legal advice, interprets laws and regulations, issues legal opinions, develops policies and agreements, represents the organization in court, and leads complex strategic initiatives. Advises senior management and decision-making bodies, manages legal matters, develops litigation strategies, prepares pleadings and witnesses, negotiates outcomes, and coaches stakeholders across the organization.

Advises the organization on legal compliance, rights, obligations, and strategic initiatives. Interprets laws, issues legal opinions, represents the organization in court, develops litigation strategies, drafts pleadings, negotiates settlements, and updates legal policies and standards. Serves as a subject-matter expert and trusted advisor to senior management, decision-making bodies, and cross-functional stakeholders.

Provides legal advice and oversight to organizational units and decision-making bodies, including the board of directors. Analyzes issues, prepares legal opinions and recommendations, coordinates meetings, monitors industry trends, develops processes, and supports compliance and protection of organizational rights. Requires bilingual French and English communication, Quebec notarial membership, and availability for weekday, evening, and weekend shifts.

Provides administrative and legal support to lawyers, including coordinating office activities, prioritizing requests, managing agendas, arranging meetings and travel, processing expenses, formatting documents, entering data, liaising with stakeholders, and maintaining physical and electronic filing systems. Requires discretion, accuracy, initiative, organization, and the ability to work independently in a bilingual English-French environment.

Leads BDC’s Specialized Financing legal team and provides strategic, business-oriented legal guidance on complex securitization, syndicated financing, subordinated debt, community banking, and special project transactions. Oversees negotiations, risk management, regulatory compliance, team development, external counsel relationships, process improvements, and collaboration with senior stakeholders and internal business units.

Designs, implements, monitors, and improves legal and regulatory compliance programs, policies, action plans, and tools. Analyzes compliance issues, develops recommendations, oversees business-line activities, supports training and ethics awareness, and represents the unit before committees and internal and external stakeholders.

Provides legal advice and contract support to procurement, technology, and digital development teams. Drafts and reviews agreements, interprets legislation, represents the organization in negotiations, coordinates external counsel, and prepares materials for decision-making bodies. This temporary 12-month role requires Quebec Bar membership, a law degree, at least six years of relevant experience including two years in information technology, and fluency in French and English.

Provides senior legal advice, interprets laws and regulations, drafts and validates legal documents and policies, manages complex legal projects, analyzes organizational risks, supports strategic initiatives, and represents the company before authorities or courts. Acts as a subject matter expert, negotiates complex matters, develops legal strategies, and coaches decision-making bodies and stakeholders.

Contract lawyers will independently review and analyze high volumes of legal documents, emails, and client files in professional-liability litigation matters. They will extract key legal issues, draft memoranda, support examinations for discovery, attend team meetings, and contribute to case strategy. The role is primarily remote for approximately two to three months, with possible extension, and requires bilingual French-English communication, Quebec Bar membership, civil law training, and relevant litigation experience.

Provide in-house legal support for M&A transactions, draft and negotiate commercial contracts, advise on employment, privacy and regulatory matters, manage external counsel, support corporate governance, and build scalable legal processes to enable growth and post-acquisition integration.

Review and assess public sector, legal, and go-to-market documents, providing structured feedback focused on quality, accuracy, relevance, and adherence to guidelines. The role requires strong analytical, written communication, document review, and attention-to-detail skills. It is a fully remote independent contractor position with flexible scheduling and weekly payments, open to applicants in the United States, Europe, the UK, and Canada.

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.

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.

Supports a team of three or more litigation lawyers by preparing legal proceedings, letters, correspondence, and meeting materials. Manages deadlines, calendars, client files, communications, hearings, and administrative workflows across a high volume of cases. Requires bilingual French-English communication, litigation experience, strong Microsoft Office skills, organization, discretion, and the ability to work effectively in a hybrid environment.

Designs, implements, monitors and enforces legal and regulatory compliance programs. Advises stakeholders, diagnoses issues, develops recommendations, oversees business-line activities, trains staff, and represents the unit in committees.

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.

Supports family office legal and corporate governance by maintaining corporate minute books and registers, coordinating legal documentation and filings, managing signatures and records, liaising with external counsel and advisors, supporting incorporations and transactions, preparing board meeting materials, and maintaining electronic and physical filing systems.

Provide pragmatic legal advice across commercial matters: draft and negotiate contracts, support internal approvals and risk assessments, lead negotiations, manage external counsel, improve templates/tools, promote governance, and help resolve commercial disputes to enable business growth across Canada.

Provide legal advice across commercial and corporate matters, draft and negotiate contracts, manage corporate governance and records, support M&A and due diligence, identify and mitigate legal risks, and coordinate Board of Directors secretariat duties.

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

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.