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Chicago legal operations jobs

Chicago legal ops hiring leans toward the Fortune 500 in-house teams the city is known for: industrials, insurance, retail-at-scale, and the consultancies that serve them. The work is steady, matter-heavy, and weighted toward eBilling, vendor management, and the kind of legal project management that comes from running real outside-counsel programs.

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Open Chicago jobs

Chicago appears on the board both as a single-city listing and as part of multi-city hubs (typically alongside DC, Denver, and Seattle in the same posting). The market is comp-competitive without paying the SF premium.

Field Sales Rep - Depositions by Filevine
$80k-$90k
Filevine Hybrid — Chicago, IL Full time Privacy, Matter Mgmt, Paralegal, Ops Leadership
$80k-$90k Posted May 29
Legal Operations Manager
Box Chicago, Illinois, United States Full time Contracts, Privacy, Matter Mgmt, Billing, Vendor, Paralegal, Ops Leadership
Posted May 6
Sr. Contracts Negotiator - Healthcare & Life Sciences
Databricks Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; Denver, Colorado; Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington; Washington, D.C. Full time Contracts, Privacy, Ops Leadership
Posted Apr 9
Business Development Representative
Filevine Onsite — Chicago, IL Full time Privacy, Ops Leadership
Posted Aug 28

Roles hiring in Chicago

2 open Legal AI & Automation A Legal AI & Automation role turns repetitive legal work into designed workflows, pilots, and systems that actually get used. The focus is practical adoption: better intake, better routing, better knowledge access, and fewer manual steps. 1 open Legal Operations Manager A Legal Operations Manager owns the operating system behind the legal department: tools, vendors, reporting, process, and budget. They turn legal work into repeatable workflows and give leadership a clear view into spend, capacity, and bottlenecks. 1 open Contract Manager A Contract Manager owns the contract pipeline from intake through signature and post-signature tracking. The role keeps requests moving, clauses consistent, and obligations from disappearing after the ink dries.

Nearby & related locations

8 open New York New York legal ops hiring sits at the intersection of finance, media, and biglaw-adjacent in-house teams. The market skews toward eBilling, outside-counsel spend management, and legal project managers supporting matter-heavy departments — work that came out of the law-firm world and is now repeating itself inside Fortune 500 legal teams. 3 open Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. legal ops hiring leans toward regulated-industry in-house teams: government affairs work, federal-contracting companies, defense and aerospace, and the policy-adjacent arms of large tech employers. The work is heavier on outside counsel coordination, regulatory tracking, and the legal project management that supports investigation- or compliance-heavy programs. 3 open Denver Denver legal ops hiring sits between the SLC enterprise-SaaS cluster and the multi-city Mountain hubs run by larger employers. The market is mid-sized and steady: contract management, ops support, and the systems work that keeps growing companies' legal stacks running. Comp tracks the non-coastal bands published in the 2026 salary report.