General Counsel

• Advise internal business teams on compliance with U.S. federal and state privacy laws.
• Draft, review, and negotiate privacy-related agreements.
• Develop and implement privacy policies and governance frameworks.
• Guide internal stakeholders through incident response.
• Conduct privacy impact assessments for new products, services, systems, and data uses.
• Monitor legislative developments and advise on emerging privacy trends.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to embed privacy into business operations.
• Provide practical, risk-based legal advice on personal and health-related information.

Privacy Counsel

• Serve as a trusted legal advisor to Services & Solutions and Sales leadership, providing counsel on business initiatives, market expansion, and operational decisions
• Collaborate proactively with stakeholders to ensure CDW builds, sells, delivers, and manages new services and solutions in a manner consistent with CDW's risk profile, financial targets, strategic goals, and contractual obligations
• Help simplify and evolve the company's operating model and delivery processes to reduce friction for customers and drive greater efficiency in execution
• Support M&A due diligence and integration activities for Solutions & Services acquisitions and strategic partnerships as needed
• Lead the negotiation and structuring of complex commercial and technology transactions, including managed services agreements, professional services contracts, technology licensing arrangements, cloud solution agreements, and strategic partnership arrangements
• Provide pragmatic, go-to-market legal advice that balances risk mitigation with business agility and competitive positioning
• Manage legal and commercial risk in partner, vendor, and subcontractor relationships critical to services delivery
• Handle escalated contract negotiations involving material customer relationships and significant revenue impact
• Develop and refine standardized contract templates, playbooks, and clause libraries that support scalable and efficient commercial execution
• Support compliance with state, federal, and international regulations affecting services and sales across multiple jurisdictions
• Help develop controls and strengthen governance processes that support CDW's continued transformation into a leading digital and services-led technology partner
• Monitor evolving regulations affecting technology services, including AI governance, cybersecurity requirements, data privacy (GDPR, CCPA, sector-specific requirements), and industry-specific compliance
• Manage IP considerations in services delivery, including customer data rights, developed solutions ownership, and third-party IP compliance
• Provide ongoing legal support for services operations, including change orders, service modifications, performance issues, and customer relationship management
• Advise on legal aspects of services staffing models, including contractor vs. employee classifications, customer site requirements, and security clearance obligations
• Manage and resolve commercial disputes, service delivery claims, and pre-litigation matters in coordination with the broader Legal team
• Coordinate with other Legal team members and cross-functional partners to maximize a unified, agile, customer-friendly approach
• As a senior leader within the Legal team, mentor and guide junior attorneys and legal professionals on complex matters as needs arise

Senior Counsel

• Own commercial contracting. Draft, review, redline, negotiate, and close client, agency, and customized agreements, including MSAs, SOWs, order forms that focus on Saas and digital-credit and usage-based arrangements, NDAs, and amendments.
• Lead client-side legal negotiations with speed. Take ownership of legal terms once commercial terms are set; respond and turn drafts quickly, negotiate directly with client legal, procurement, privacy, and security teams, and maintain momentum through execution. Provide business stakeholders with concise status updates, clearly framed risks, and the specific decisions needed to close.
• Manage vendor and consulting agreements. Review and negotiate inbound SaaS, technology, data, professional-services, contractor, and consulting agreements, balancing operational needs, speed, cost, and risk.
• Apply commercially calibrated risk judgment. Negotiate and provide practical guidance on liability caps, indemnities, warranties, intellectual property and content rights, confidentiality, data use, security, privacy, insurance, payment, termination, and dispute provisions. Understand which protections are essential, where Statusphere can responsibly accept risk, and when an issue requires executive or outside-counsel escalation.
• Own website and product legal content. Maintain and periodically update website Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy, cookie and consent language, and other customer- or user-facing legal notices in coordination with Product, Marketing, Security, and outside specialists.
• Own Creator-Statusphere and Brand-Creator Agreements. Signed for each campaign and brands may have specific versions of this to deploy which must be monitored and auditable.
• Provide operational legal guidance. Answer day-to-day questions involving payments, contracting authority, creator relationships, content and usage rights, compliance, business processes, and other legal issues arising across the company.
• Build scalable legal operations. Create and maintain templates, clause libraries, negotiation playbooks, approval thresholds, fallback positions, intake processes, signature workflows, and a contract repository that improve speed and consistency.
• Advise executives and manage escalation. Present the COO/CFO and other C-level leaders with a concise assessment of the issue, business impact, likelihood and severity of risk, available options, and a clear recommended path. Prioritize matters by business impact and coordinate outside counsel for specialized, jurisdiction-specific, or high-risk matters.
• Partner cross-functionally and learn the business. Build a strong working understanding of Statusphere’s customers, creator ecosystem, products, revenue model, deal economics, and operating workflows. Work closely with Sales and other teams to remove deal blockers, support accurate handoffs, and ensure contractual commitments are understood, documented, and operationally achievable.
• Other duties and projects as assigned

In-House Commercial Counsel

• Lead the IP aspects of Cisco's AI legal & governance strategies
• Evolve and run Cisco's copyright program in the AI era
• Evolve and run Cisco's trade secret program as a genuine enterprise function
• Work with the patent team to advise them on AI-specific patent-related strategies
• Work with the AI legal team to audit and run AI vendor IP exposure
• Serve as the IP team's legal intelligence function on AI

Principal Corporate Counsel – Trade Secrets, Copyrights, AI

• Provide legal advice on complex and severe third-party claims
• Oversee coverage litigation and related matters
• Advise management on key issues and legal trends
• Provide legal research, coverage analysis, counsel, and guidance
• Support training and legal guidance across other lines of business

Director, Strategic Coverage Counsel

• Own negotiation and execution of commercial SaaS agreements — including MSAs, subscription agreements, DPAs, and NDAs — while enabling the business to move quickly within defined guardrails.
• Enforce company positions on non-standard terms and manage escalation paths, improving time-to-signature without increasing legal or commercial risk.
• Train and enable Sales to handle routine negotiations independently, reducing legal bottlenecks at scale.
• Lead the end-to-end contracting function for all customer and vendor agreements, building a scalable, AI-enabled operation that reduces manual work and accelerates deal cycles.
• Implement and manage a Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) system, including templates, negotiation playbooks, approval workflows, and delegation of authority controls.
• Leverage AI-driven legal tools for contract review, risk flagging, and workflow automation — actively identifying opportunities to reduce outside counsel reliance over time.
• Own vendor contracting and procurement legal processes, maintaining a contract repository with proactive tracking of key terms and obligations.
• Lead legal aspects of data privacy — including DPA negotiation and regulatory alignment with GDPR, CCPA, and related frameworks — and monitor evolving requirements across Canto's operating and customer geographies.
• Partner with Security, Product, and Executive Leadership on emerging legal and regulatory requirements related to AI, data governance, automated decision-making, IP, and responsible AI practices.
• Serve as the primary legal advisor across commercial and operational matters, managing outside counsel relationships across the US and Europe with a focus on cost efficiency and minimizing routine escalations.
• Handle disputes and pre-litigation matters with a pragmatic, resolution-oriented approach, and advise on Canto's corporate entity compliance program.
• Partner with Security during privacy and security events, coordinating on notification obligations, contractual commitments, regulatory requirements, and privilege preservation.

Commercial Counsel

• Providing legal coverage and litigation support to claims professionals
• Reviewing first- and third-party policies
• Providing legal advice on tenders of coverage
• Drafting correspondence in response to tenders of coverage
• Managing disputes and litigation over the duty to defend and/or duty to indemnify
• Researching and keeping apprised of changes in the law
• Preparing quarterly reports to Claims Management

Associate General Counsel – Risk Transfer Solutions

• Providing day-to-day legal counseling on complex litigation and investigative matters
• Drafting, reviewing and monitoring pleadings, briefs, discovery, subpoenas, investigative demands and related responses
• Managing complex eDiscovery workflows, legal holds, data preservation, document review and production issues
• Working with paralegals and witnesses to develop cases for trial
• Counseling business clients on litigation risks
• Working with insurers and Caterpillar Risk Management
• Establishing insurance coverage and working with accounting teams on case reserves
• Working with outside counsel and leading multidisciplinary teams
• Maintaining excellent relationships with outside counsel

Assistant General Counsel – Litigation

• Deliver legal counsel and support of Caterpillar’s U.S. business operations on a wide range of labor and employment matters, including issues involving the FMLA, FLSA, ADA, ADEA, Title VII, OFCCP, NLRA and HR policy compliance
• Establish and maintain relationships, credibility, and trust with human resources and business leadership, stakeholders, and legal colleagues across a global organization
• Collaborate with colleagues to provide strategic employment and labor law counsel and drive successful outcomes in complex and highly sensitive matters
• Handle inquiries, audits, investigations, and actions from government officials or agencies responsible for labor and employment regulation
• Identify and assess legal risks and new developments and advise internal business partners and leadership on development and implementation of new laws, regulations, policies, and procedures
• Provide legal training based on risk assessment, strategic objectives, and legal developments

Senior Corporate Counsel – Labor and Employment

• Enable your business units’ strategy and operations by providing practical, solution-oriented approaches to a broad range of complex legal issues
• Be a leader and person of influence at the company
• Serve as a legal subject matter expert and strategic advisor on cross-functional projects
• Partner with specialist attorneys and other professionals
• Manage commercial and other disputes, including litigations
• Using Danaher Business System tools, help the legal and compliance team identify, design and implement continuous process improvement initiatives

• Provide advice and counsel to the Claims Department when legal issues or questions arise during the handling of claims
• Provide advice to the Claims Organization on claims and large losses that have potential extracontractual or bad faith legal exposure
• Provide training and education on emerging legal trends, issues, risks, new laws or court decisions for assigned states
• Work with business colleagues and other in-house legal teams to develop recommendations related to the handling of claims
• Deliver legal counsel on high-exposure insurance claims and coverage issues during active claims handling

Claims Counsel, Law and Regulation

• Serve as the primary legal resource for designated business units and technology areas within R&D
• Draft, review, and negotiate R&D-related agreements, including non-disclosure, material transfer, joint development, and license agreements
• Advise on the appropriate structure and use of R&D agreements to protect IP ownership, exclusivity, and trade secrets
• Advise R&D on intellectual property protection strategies, including patent preparation, prosecution decisions, portfolio development, and risk assessment
• Drive strategic patent filing decisions aligned with innovation roadmaps and business priorities
• Conduct and advise on freedom-to-operate reviews for new technologies and products entering the market
• Develop and deliver intellectual property–related training for R&D and other internal stakeholders
• Manage and oversee outside counsel to ensure quality and cost-effective legal support
• Support compliance with company policies related to signatory authority, ethics, and trade secret protection
• Occasional travel may be required.

Senior Counsel – Global Patents, Innovation

• Provide well-reasoned legal guidance to Kraft Heinz business teams across a variety of legal and regulatory matters
• Ensure alignment with state packaging laws (including Extended Producer Responsibility, recycled content, and recyclability laws)
• Work closely with and support Food Law attorneys and regulatory professionals in reading, interpreting, and advising on statutory and regulatory requirements
• Establish and operationalize best‑in‑class regulatory processes, tools, and governance models to drive agility efficiency, consistency, and scalability
• Assess and communicate legal and regulatory risks, opportunities, and emerging trends
• Proactively provide early‑warning insights and actionable guidance to the business
• Navigate and provide actionable plans for complex and ambiguous regulatory scenarios, including EPR requirements, other sustainability and recyclability laws, claims substantiation, and food contact materials
• Prepare and support Kraft Heinz legal and regulatory positions in collaboration with Food Law, regulatory and cross functional partners
• Influence business decisions by delivering balanced, pragmatic regulatory and legal recommendations that protect the company while supporting business objectives

Counsel, Regulatory

• Provide expert legal advice to executive leadership and senior management on legal matters including HIPAA, TEFCA, privacy, intellectual property, and other relevant law
• Develop and implement legal and regulatory strategies to support existing and new business initiatives and product offerings
• Negotiate, draft, and manage contracts with clients, vendors, and partners, ensuring favorable terms and compliance with relevant obligations
• Advice on healthcare data acquisition, licensing, commercialization, interoperability, and strategic partnerships involving data assets.
• Oversee license contract templates and approval workflows
• Establish, manage, and maintain outside counsel relationships, as necessary
• Consult frequently with Milliman’s Global Corporate Services team(s) to ensure legal and regulatory alignment
• Collaborate with and counsel various internal departments (Product, IT Security, Sales and Account Management, and Operations) to support MedInsight needs
• Oversee MedInsight policies and processes for client, vendor and partner contracts, ensuring continuous process optimization and appropriate day-to-day management by business operations managers.
• Define annual objectives and goals for MedInsight legal and regulatory compliance, set KPIs, monitor performance and adapt plans agilely to achieve high-performance outcomes

Associate General Counsel – MedInsight

• Provide expert legal counsel to various business units
• Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial agreements
• Identify, analyze, and assess legal risks and provide proactive advice
• Stay abreast of relevant changes in laws, regulations, and industry trends
• Collaborate effectively with other members of the Legal and Compliance function and cross-functional teams
• Manage outside counsel relationships and legal expenses

Senior Counsel, AI and Data – Pharma Experience Required

• Own multi-state regulatory compliance obligations for HopSkipDrive as a transportation network company operating in the education sector, including TNC licensing, driver qualification standards, DMV record check requirements, and state-specific transportation regulations.
• Draft and submit regulatory filings, advice letters, and compliance attestations to state agencies; track and manage agency review, approval, and disposition.
• Advise on revenue contract and RFP provisions with regulatory implications, including background check requirements, reporting obligations, and driver and vehicle standards.
• Advise internal stakeholders on regulatory requirements for new market entry and ongoing compliance obligations in existing markets.
• Build AI projects and workflows related to regulatory matters.
• Monitor and analyze federal and state legislation affecting HopSkipDrive’s operations, with a focus on transportation network companies, school pupil transportation, and automated decision systems.
• Develop legal and policy positions on pending legislation; collaborate with the Policy and Government Relations teams to prepare bill analyses, public comments, and engagement strategies.
• Assist with bill review and bill drafting in partnership with the Policy team.
• Identify legislative trends and develop proactive compliance strategies, particularly around TNC regulation, school transportation, and gig economy classification.
• Represent HopSkipDrive’s interests in regulatory rulemakings before state public utility commissions and transportation agencies.
• Monitor and manage responses to public records and disclosure requests from state and local agencies.
• Leverage AI tools for more efficient legislative analysis.
• Oversee a book of claims related to labor and employment claims.
• Manage a small number of cases or claims related to civil litigation including discovery strategy, preparing corporate witnesses, and directing litigation defense.
• Support outside counsel in preparing for and conducting arbitrations.
• Handle subpoenas, service of process, and regulatory investigations, coordinating with outside counsel as appropriate.
• Build AI projects and workflows related to litigation.
• Manage data use agreements and research partnerships with academic institutions and government agencies.
• Provide legal research and rulemaking assistance as needed to support a busy and growing regulatory portfolio.
• Serve as a legal subject matter expert on AI and automated decision-making, advising on compliance with emerging state AI legislation and internal AI governance frameworks.

Senior Counsel – Policy & Regulatory

• Own commercial contracts end-to-end
• Draft, review, negotiate, and manage the full range of commercial agreements
• Develop and refine playbooks, templates, and standard positions
• Support small acquisitions alongside the General Counsel
• Grow into a generalist across other areas of in-house practice
• Build strong, trusted relationships with various teams
• Serve as a client-facing representative of the company

Senior Counsel – Commercial

• Manage all conflicts searching, conflicts identification, and the resolution of potential ethical, business, and subject matter conflicts
• Carry out managerial responsibilities in accordance with the firm’s policies and procedures
• Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training new conflicts staff
• Monitoring, planning, assigning, and directing work of conflicts staff
• Appraising performance and handling personnel-related issues
• Serve as a positive role model and mentor
• Develop, recommend, and implement new business and lateral intake and conflicts checking processes
• Work extensively with appropriate firm management including the General Counsel and the Intake Committee
• Manage the ongoing maintenance of the conflicts data to ensure its integrity
• Prepare for, host, and memorialize the discussions and decisions of the Intake Committee conference calls
• Provide orientation and training of new attorneys and professional staff regarding new business conflicts and lateral hire procedures

Conflicts Manager

• Provide legal support to Invenergy’s project development, commercial execution and finance and capital markets teams on a wide variety of commercial transactions, including power purchase and similar offtake agreements, build-transfer agreements, commodity and currency hedge and trading agreements, interconnection agreements, EPC agreements, equipment supply agreements, operations and maintenance agreements as well as debt financing, cash and tax equity financing, and joint venture agreements.
• Provide guidance on transaction structuring.
• Support the drafting and negotiation of project and financing documentation.
• Select and efficiently manage sophisticated outside counsel.
• Ensure consistency across transactions and compliance with internal policies.
• The position will also provide legal advice and support in other areas of the company as needed and able.
• The position will require overtime and travel at times.

Associate General Counsel, Commercial

• Apply strategic and analytical skills supporting Premium Products & Experiences (PPX) team focusing on Capital One Travel line of business
• Advise on developing an industry-leading travel service offering with top-notch benefits and features
• Partner with Travel business on strategy, investigate and assess legal risks, and advise on third party contracts
• Engage with colleagues to provide legal support as part of a collaborative team
• Regularly interact with senior business partners and Legal department experts

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Privacy Counsel

Senior Counsel

In-House Commercial Counsel

Principal Corporate Counsel – Trade Secrets, Copyrights, AI

Director, Strategic Coverage Counsel

Commercial Counsel

Associate General Counsel – Risk Transfer Solutions

Assistant General Counsel – Litigation

Senior Corporate Counsel – Labor and Employment

Senior Counsel

Claims Counsel, Law and Regulation

Senior Counsel – Global Patents, Innovation

Counsel, Regulatory

Associate General Counsel – MedInsight

Senior Counsel, AI and Data – Pharma Experience Required

Senior Counsel – Policy & Regulatory

Senior Counsel – Commercial

Conflicts Manager

Associate General Counsel, Commercial

Senior Manager, Senior Counsel – Capital One Travel Product Counsel