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Greater San Diego Area
Corporate Counsel | Netradyne*
Under the supervision of the Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs, the Corporate Counsel will play a critical role partnering with the sales and business teams in addressing their legal needs. The Corporate Counsel reviews and negotiates contracts and provides counsel to sales team members and managers to address legal questions and needs of mixed scope and complexity.
Responsibilities:
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function more than satisfactorily.
- Review and negotiate commercial contract terms – both large and small – zealously. But have the ability to also understand where compromise is appropriate.
- Meet demands and deadlines under regular pressure.
- Flexible and able to manage multiple varying demands simultaneously.
- Have a deep understanding of the interplay among different parts of a contract; litigation experience in this regard is a plus.
Senior Attorney- Real Estate (In-House) | Pacifica Companies*
This role will serve as a key legal advisor to executive leadership, with a focus on real estate transactions, contracts, and overall business operations, while also overseeing litigation matters. The Senior Attorney will be responsible for managing a diverse caseload, providing high-level legal guidance, and leading a team of attorneys and legal staff. This position requires a seasoned professional with strong experience in all phases of real estate transactions, a deep understanding of real estate and business law, and the ability to align legal strategy with organizational goals.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and oversee all phases of real estate transactions, including contracts, acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, and development projects
- Oversee litigation, general liability, professional liability, and real estate-related disputes, including managing outside counsel, ensuring effective case strategy, and controlling costs
- Provide strategic, business-oriented legal advice to executive leadership and cross-functional teams
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of agreements, including real estate contracts, vendor agreements, leases, and corporate documents
Assistant General Counsel - Employment | Intuit*
As a senior member of the Employment Legal Team, you will partner with our People & Places and other leaders around the world to ensure Intuit's employment strategy, programs, and policies are structured to accelerate our strategy while complying with the law in all our jurisdictions. You will provide advice and guidance on a wide variety of legal and regulatory matters, as well as strategic business advice in support of Intuit's workforce strategies. You will build stakeholder empathy by understanding and anticipating the needs of our stakeholders including People & Places and business leaders. We look at challenges as opportunities to find the best outcome for our stakeholders and enable them to take smart risk to paths forward.
Responsibilities:
- Drive and advise on the end-to-end implementation of workforce compliance issues from issue identification and strategy, ideation, worker experience, policy development, compliance, and operations to support Intuit's global workforce
- Provide timely, business-focused advice and counseling in support of our workforce strategies, policies, legal claim management in accordance with evolving global laws and regulations
- Analyze current international support models, develop, and implement strategy to ensure best in class worker support across Intuit locations
In-House Legal Counsel | Capricor Therapeutics
The In‑House Legal Counsel provides broad commercial and corporate legal support for Capricor’s growing operations, with a focus on contract negotiation, vendor management, commercialization readiness, and day‑to‑day legal advisory work across the business. Reporting to the General Counsel, EVP, this role partners closely with Commercial, Clinical, CMC, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, and Finance to ensure Capricor’s activities align with applicable legal, contractual, and industry standards. The ideal candidate is a motivated junior–mid level attorney with strong law‑firm training and experience supporting pharmaceutical or biotech clients, particularly in commercial contracting and product‑launch environments.
Responsibilities:
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of commercial agreements, including master service agreements (MSAs), CRO/vendor agreements, confidentiality agreements, supply and manufacturing agreements, consulting agreements, quality agreements, and technology-related contracts.
- Provide day-to-day contract management, including issue spotting, risk assessments, and coordination with internal stakeholders.
- Maintain and improve contract templates and contracting processes to support scalability and compliance.
Assistant General Counsel | San Diego County Regional Airport Authority
The Office of the General Counsel is seeking an Assistant General Counsel who will serve as a trusted legal advisor to the Authority’s General Counsel, Board of Directors, executive leadership, and departments across the organization. Working closely with the General Counsel, this role provides guidance on complex legal and governance matters that shape the operations of one of the nation’s busiest single-runway airports.
The Assistant General Counsel plays a key leadership role within the legal department, supervising members of the legal team while partnering with the General Counsel to support the Authority’s legal strategy. This includes advising executives and Board members on emerging issues, interpreting regulatory requirements, and helping the organization navigate complex legal questions in a dynamic public environment.
This role operates at the intersection of law, public governance, and infrastructure development. The Assistant General Counsel provides legal guidance on matters impacting airport operations, regulatory compliance, litigation strategy, and major capital projects, including the continued development of the New Terminal 1 program and future construction initiatives.
Senior Director Legal (Associate General Counsel) | Everise
The Senior Director, Legal is a senior legal leader responsible for providing strategic and day‑to‑day legal support to Everise’s U.S. and global operations, with a primary focus on employment and labor law, litigation management, and commercial risk support. This role partners closely with HR, Operations, Finance, and executive leadership to manage legal risk in a high‑growth, highly regulated, multi‑jurisdictional services environment and to deliver practical, business‑oriented legal solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as a primary legal advisor on U.S. and global employment matters, including hiring, discipline, performance management, terminations, and reductions in force.
- Ensure wage and hour compliance (FLSA and state analogs), ADA, PWFA, FMLA, and state/local leave laws, including accommodation processes.
- Advise on matters related to discrimination, retaliation, harassment, and whistleblower claims.
- Provide guidance to HR and leadership on complex employee relations issues, investigations, and corrective actions.
- Draft, review, and maintain employment‑related documentation, including offer letters, employment agreements, restrictive covenants, severance and separation agreements, HR policies, handbooks, and compliance materials.
General Counsel | TrueCare
We are seeking an experienced General Counsel to serve as the organization’s legal advisor. This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact at the intersection of healthcare, law, and business—ensuring strategic counsel across compliance, regulatory matters, contracts, employment, transactions, and organizational policy, ensuring alignment with California state law and federal oversight via HRSA.
Responsibilities:
- Advise CEO and Board members on legal and regulatory matters and ensure compliance with local, state, and federal requirements.
- Represent the organization before courts, boards, and public agencies as a licensed California attorney.
- Draft and negotiate contracts, legal documents, and complex agreements.
- Monitor legal developments and conduct research to guide organizational strategy.
Senior Compliance Counsel | Intuit
Senior Compliance Counsel will provide legal oversight for third-party vendors and related sales channels supporting Intuit's money movement offerings. This role focuses on legal risk management for critical and ICT vendors, including regulatory interpretation, vendor governance, contractual protections, audit readiness, and concentration risk. The counsel will work cross-functionally to ensure third-party relationships are structured and managed in a manner that is legally sound, scalable, and defensible in regulatory exams and audits.
Responsibilities:
- Provide legal oversight for third-party vendors supporting money movement offerings, including governance of a large and critical vendor population.
- Define, advise and establish legal requirements for vendor inventory, recordkeeping, and documentation for global money movement activities (with emphasis on non-US expansion), and provide legal oversight to ensure inventories maintained by partner teams meet regulatory expectations.
- Interpret and advise on regulatory obligations applicable to third-party and ICT vendors across jurisdictions.
- Provide legal guidance and oversight for ICT vendors whose technology and services support or secure core business functions, including software, infrastructure, data services, and network and communication tools.
Senior Counsel (hybrid) | Clearway
The Senior Counsel for Procurement, EPC, and O&M will provide advice and counsel to management and project teams as Clearway positions itself to capture emerging opportunities in the Utility-Scale Wind, Solar, and Battery Energy Storage segments of the energy industry. This hybrid position reports to the Assistant General Counsel and will be located in one of our office locations in San Diego, CA, Scottsdale, AZ, Houston, TX, Denver, CO, or San Francisco, CA.
If you don't meet 100% of the qualifications but see yourself contributing, please submit your resume.
Responsibilities:
- Provide legal counsel and advice to clients on matters relating to engineering, procurement, construction, operations, and maintenance, including financed projects.
- Represent the company in major transactions and negotiations
- Draft and negotiate EPC Agreements, O&M Agreements, Turbine Supply Agreements, Module Supply Agreements, etc.
- Provide counsel on legal issues identified by asset management, O&M, EPC, and procurement teams in connection with operating projects.
Legal Counsel - Real Estate Acquisitions & Development | Realty Income Corp.
Realty Income is looking to hire a Legal Counsel for our fast-growing Acquisitions and Development legal team. In this role, you will provide professional legal counsel to, and supervise and administer all necessary legal services for newly acquired properties in assigned matters, including completed and development projects. You will work in conjunction with other in-house attorneys and paralegals or outside counsel and third party service providers as required and provide legal advice to the relevant decision makers throughout the Company.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate, analyze, manage, negotiate, document and close a wide range of multifaceted real estate acquisition and development transactions.
- Review, draft, negotiate and approve documents relating to the acquisition of real estate, e.g., confidentiality agreements, letters of intent, correspondence, purchase agreements, escrow instructions, lease agreements, lease or other document abstracts, amendments, assignments, estoppels, development agreements, title objection letters, deeds, closing documents, business entity documents, transaction summaries, etc.
- Review, evaluate and approve information and reports received in connection with the acquisition of real estate, e.g., title commitments and exception documents, plats, site plans, plans and specifications, surveys, environmental reports, engineering reports, construction monitoring reports, etc.
Senior Counsel, Americas Commercial | ResMed
As a Senior Counsel, Commercial Americas specializing in healthcare medical device and digital health commercial B2B and B2B2C and DTC businesses, you will play a pivotal role in supporting ResMed's commercial activities and ensuring compliance with legal requirements. Key deliverables include, providing legal support and advice on commercial and non-commercial matters, consumer and competition law issues, e-commerce, advertising and fraud and abuse laws related to healthcare products and services. The successful candidate will be able to work collaboratively with product management team members, commercial teams offering those products, and the technical teams supporting both.
Responsibilities:
- Provide legal advice to our revenue, marketing and product teams on complex legal issues effecting medical device manufacturers and the health care industry.
- Provide legal support and advice on regulatory, commercial, consumer and competition law issues, advertising regulations, strategic collaborations, privacy (including specific knowledge of HIPAA and US State privacy laws) and compliance with anti-kickback and healthcare fraud and abuse laws.
- Strong understanding of commercial contracting principles, including contract drafting, negotiation, and interpretation of a wide range of commercial agreements, including sales, distribution, licensing, cloud-based platform and technology agreements.
Director, Product Counsel | Acadia
The Director/Senior Director, Product Counsel serves as the primary legal advisor to assigned pharmaceutical brand(s), providing strategic and day-to-day legal support across the full product lifecycle. Provides legal expertise and counsel for all promotional, medical, clinical, and access‑related activities impacting assigned product(s). Serves as the Legal representative on the Medical, Legal, and Regulatory (MLR) review committee. Ensures all materials are developed in accordance with Company standards and all applicable laws and regulations. Partners closely with cross‑functional teams to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate legal and compliance risk while enabling business objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Acts as lead legal counsel for assigned pharmaceutical brand(s) across pre-launch, launch, and post-launch phases.
- Provides strategic legal guidance and works closely with leadership on brand strategy, messaging, and execution to support business objectives while managing legal risk.
- Serves as a core member of brand and cross-functional teams, including Commercial, Medical Affairs, Market Access, R&D, Compliance, and Regulatory Affairs. Legal representative of MLR committee, providing timely legal review of all promotional and non-promotional tactics and materials.
- Provides legal advice and counseling on various issues, including but not limited to Food & Drug Administration (FDA) labeling, clinical operations, marketing strategies, direct-to-consumer advertising campaigns and programs, patient support programs, customer interactions, healthcare professional (HCP) engagements, sales training, social media, and commercial sponsorships.
Corporate Counsel | Kumquat Biosciences
The Corporate Counsel is a key member of the Legal Team who reports directly to the General Counsel and plays an integral role in the development, negotiation, and execution of company contracts across all departments. The Corporate Counsel drafts and negotiates clinical, IT, research & development, quality, and other legal agreements that support Kumquat's business objectives, minimizes risk, and ensures compliance with company standards.
Responsibilities:
- Draft, review, analyze, and negotiate clinical related contracts, including clinical trial agreements (CTAs) and ancillary agreements (including SCCs, LOIs, DRAs, LRAs), informed consent forms (ICFs), master service agreements and related work orders, vendor and service contracts, IT agreements, consulting agreements, and confidential disclosure agreements
- Liaise and effectively communicate with with key stakeholders including external parties, internal business units, and contract research organizations (CROs)
- Assist General Counsel with ad hoc legal projects as needed
General Counsel | Coffman Specialties
Our company is seeking a self-motivated, experienced construction litigation attorney to serve as General Counsel, advising on a wide range of legal matters in support of projects in California and Arizona. The General Counsel works closely with the executive team, project teams, the safety office, human resources, and accounting to manage risk, resolve conflicts, and guide compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and contracts. Working independently and with outside counsel, and in coordination with insurance carriers and adjusters, the General Counsel oversees and directs all litigation and claims, including government and private contract claims, personal injury litigation, and employment litigation.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze contracts, specifications, and laws and provide legal guidance and advice to all departments of the company.
- With the support of the contracts administrator, draft, review, and negotiate all project related contracts, commercial real property leases, equipment rental agreements, and other legal documents, and regularly monitor and update contracts in accordance with developments in the laws.
- Manage corporate compliance and filings.
- Develop arguments, draft and respond to bid protests and other pre-contract disputes in government contracting
- Oversee and manage all construction and insurance-related claims and lawsuits, working with project team, outside counsel, and experts.
Vice President, Corporate Securities Legal Counsel | Realty Income Corp.
In this role, you will support and report to the company’s Senior Vice President, Associate General Counsel, & Assistant Secretary. This role will work autonomously and independently for matters within its purview and provides operational support for the Company’s corporate function. You will work closely with the Company’s Investor Relations, Sustainability Department, Environmental, Social, and Governance Reporting Taskforce, and the Accounting Department with the preparation and review of domestic and international sustainability, regulatory and other filings and disclosures.
Responsibilities:
- Assist with the Company’s U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reporting and listing requirements as well as oversight of all Section 16 filings and the annual meeting process.
- Provide and manage the legal and compliance review of the Company’s website, social media campaigns, press releases and other similar disclosures.
- Horizon scanning of the changing regulatory landscape that may impact the Company’s other U.S. SEC filings and NYSE listing requirements.
- Support the Senior Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary with Board and governance related matters including with the preparation of materials, special projects, research and other matters as may arise including at the request of the Board and its committees.
Senior Counsel - Regulatory | SDGE
Advises on complex legal issues and develops practical solutions that balance risk management with strategic business priorities. Under the guidance of department leadership, this Senior Counsel position provides and oversees complex regulatory legal services for various SDG&E business units, with emphasis on proceedings before the California Public Utilities Commission.
Responsibilities:
- Represents SDG&E in a variety of regulatory proceedings, including hearings before administrative law judges, that involve defending company witnesses and cross-examining witnesses for other parties.
- Prepares memos, briefs, motions, comments, affidavits, and various legal pleadings and documents as directed or as required for assigned cases or material transactions; maintains related document files and legal correspondence.
- Provides legal and strategic advice on highly complex regulatory issues, including both technical and policy-based issues; this often involves working with other legal departments.
Chief General Counsel | Color of Change
Color Of Change is seeking a seasoned, values-driven Chief General Counsel to serve as the organization’s principal legal authority and a trusted strategic advisor to executive leadership and the Board of Directors. The Chief General Counsel will design and lead Color Of Change’s legal function from the ground up, establishing the legal infrastructure to protect the organization’s advocacy,
Legal Counsel, Senior, Litigation | Qualcomm
Qualcomm is seeking an experienced litigation attorney to join our legal team to support the company's businesses when involved in patent and other IP litigation, commercial disputes, other complex litigation, and related legal issues. This role will help to manage our company's interests in court, arbitration, mediation, and other legal proceedings. It will also advise our management on legal matters, risks, and strategies.
Responsibilities:
- Managing and leading teams of internal and external resources to achieve successful outcomes while managing matters to budget.
- Developing case strategies and budgets as well as active involvement in patent litigation matters, which typically will include the management of outside counsel, factual investigations, pretrial pleadings, discovery, motions practice and dispute resolution (whether by settlement, trial, or ADR).
- Managing patent invalidation proceedings at the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board and equivalent foreign agencies.
- Collaborating with internal and external resources in preventative initiatives.
AI Legal Counsel (Data/AI/Content Management) | Qualcomm
This position will be focused on compliance work in connection with content moderation and SaaS platform support for artificial intelligence (AI) related platforms. This position will include the management of policies and procedures in the furtherance of Qualcomm's strategy of developer enablement. This role will be inclusive of conducting inbound and outbound software reviews in support of hosted services and will encompass the identification of legal issues around various datasets and AI models. The successful candidate will work closely with software developers to understand how hosted third-party software, models and datasets may be effectively reviewed for content compliance and provide legal support to Qualcomm's content moderation team.
Inclusive of this function, the candidate will also advise on how internally developed software should be integrated with an AI software development tool chain hosted on Qualcomm's AI related platforms. In association with datasets and AI models, the candidate will analyze license terms, evaluate IP considerations, analyze terms of use, and review/advise on model/data cards. Additionally, the candidate must maintain an ongoing, broad awareness of Data and AI-related regulations and case law including regional trends, investigate regulatory concerns, and support internal compliance initiatives.
Legal Counsel | Qualcomm
Qualcomm is seeking an experienced attorney to join its in-house legal team in San Diego, focusing on supporting the Intellectual Property Department with legal diligence and transactional support for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and related projects. Qualcomm's in-house IP Standards and Diligence team works on a wide variety of projects, including advising corporate business teams on all corporate M&A projects, supporting in-house and outside counsel with patent portfolio management, and supporting Qualcomm's licensing division, litigation teams, and other business units.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as subject matter expert and lead in-depth analysis of intellectual property portfolios, including investigations into patent legal ownership and bibliographic information.
- Assist with drafting and negotiation of various agreements including asset purchase and assignment agreements in support of corporate M&A functions. Review and analyze wide variety of diligence materials including complex licensing and other commercial agreements and seller disclosure schedules.
- Act as a trusted legal advisor to business unit legal, licensing, tax, litigation, and operations teams. Deliver timely and actionable legal advice on a variety of intellectual property related issues, including internal policy compliance and corporate intellectual property governance matters.
Associate Counsel, California (Remote) | Geico
GEICO is looking to hire an Associate Counsel to defend lawsuits filed in California courts and other first party insurance defense. The position is with GEICO Staff Counsel located in San Francisco, Sacramento, Concord, San Diego and Los Angeles.
Responsibilities:
- Researching laws and preparing legal briefs, opinions, and memoranda
- Rendering opinions on liability, damages, and value as requested by the Claims Department
- Preparing and handling pleadings, motions, and discovery, to include depositions/examinations before trial and examinations under oath, and defending by trial or dispositive hearing, all matters assigned, as applicable
Director, Corporate Compliance | Crinetics Pharmaceuticals
As the liaison between the compliance department and the commercial and medical affairs teams, this role will be responsible for achieving organizational objectives by effectively integrating into the business to drive compliant activity.
Responsibilities:
- Establish strong working relationships and act quickly to ensure timely thoughtful advice is provided to key business partners.
- Develop and deliver targeted training to enable informed decision making in support of the needs of the business unit.
- Assess activities to ensure alignment with healthcare compliance requirements.
- Identify areas of compliance risk within respective business areas to ensure systems, processes, training and other resources are coordinated to help mitigate risk.
VP, Associate General Counsel | Girl Scouts of the USA
We are seeking an experienced, highly independent individual to join the Office of the General Counsel as a Vice President, Associate General Counsel. This person will provide legal expertise for Girl Scout Cookies’ supply chain and E-commerce operations, negotiate key commercial agreements, advise on regulatory and operational matters, and mitigate legal and commercial risks. Manage commercial disputes and litigation; direct outside counsel and ensure efficient resolution. This role partners closely with business leaders to support transformational initiatives, oversee outside counsel, ensure legal documents reflect best practices, and strengthen collaboration across supply chain, retail, and E-commerce teams.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and independently negotiate, draft, execute and close critical commercial projects that support Girl Scout Cookies and its complex supply chain, including vendor, supplier, logistics, shipping, distribution, payment processors/providers and E-commerce/retail operations
- Advise on supply chain operations, compliance, regulatory requirements, and supplier relationships
- Provide subject matter guidance to all levels of the business on operational and strategic decisions, work with leadership on transformational transactional objectives
- Provide practical, business-oriented legal advice and counsel to identify, assess, and mitigate legal and commercial risks as needed
Corporate Counsel | YMCA of the USA
The Corporate Counsel is responsible for leading corporate strategic and tactical legal initiatives. The Corporate Counsel provides senior management with effective advice on company strategies and their implementation, manages the legal function, and obtains and oversees the work of outside counsel. The Corporate Counsel is directly involved in customer contract review, real estate contract review, and complex business transactions.
Responsibilities:
- Works in key areas of the business, assist with reviewing/drafting/amending a range of commercial/business contracts (customers, suppliers and services providers)
- Perform legal research and provide general support to organization to various departments, such as but not limited to HR related matters, customer contract interpretation/implementation, inter-company agreements, corporate matters
- Manage a variety of side projects and topics
- Knowledge of California labor and employment law
Corporate Counsel | Commercial | Petco
The Counsel II - Commercial will assist with a variety of legal matters arising in a global retail environment with a focus on contract drafting and negotiation in the areas of marketing/brand development, supply chain, and other consumer-facing activities (such as e-commerce), as well as general commercial matters. This person will work under the supervision of an Assistant General Counsel, advising on a diverse and challenging array of matters affecting the company.
Responsibilities:
- Draft, negotiate, and review a variety of domestic and international commercial agreements, including transportation, supply chain, SAAS, licensing, merchandising, manufacture and supply, consulting, marketing, agency, benefits, and other operational agreements.
- Provide day-to-day legal counsel to various Petco departments and comprehensive management and resolution of legal inquiries from business team members.
- Assist Legal department efforts in the creation, implementation and refinement of forms, policies and procedures and prepare and deliver trainings to business groups from time to time.
Associate General Counsel | Axos Bank
The Associate General Counsel provides legal expertise and strategic guidance to support the organization’s operations and compliance efforts. This role involves advising on corporate governance, regulatory matters, contracts, and risk management while ensuring adherence to applicable laws and policies. Working closely with internal teams and external counsel, the Associate General Counsel plays a key role in mitigating legal risks and facilitating business objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Draft, review, and negotiate transaction documents, with a primary focus on mergers & acquisitions, securitizations, and commercial real estate transactions
- Develop and maintain standardized form contracts for routine business activities
- Identify and mitigate legal risks to protect the Bank’s interests
- Ensure adherence to the Bank’s legal policies and maintain compliance with applicable laws and regulations
- Provide timely, practical, and solution-oriented legal support to all Bank business unit
