Top Legal Counsel Jobs in Toronto

Manage legal guidance for employment and contracts, support business initiatives, conduct legal research, and ensure compliance with regulations.

Provide commercial legal support: draft, review and negotiate contracts across marketing, retail, supply chain and IT; conduct legal research; assess and communicate legal risks; advise Senior Counsel and Assistant General Counsel; and support business strategy and project management for legal matters.

The Senior Legal Counsel provides legal advice, manages delivery of regulatory guidance, and influences business strategies for BMO Financial Group while minimizing legal risks.

The In-House Legal Counsel II will manage accident benefits disputes, work collaboratively in a legal team, and appear before tribunals while ensuring effective claims assessment and resolution.

Provide transactional legal support including preparing, reviewing, negotiating, and executing contracts (software licensing, sales, services, RFPs); advise management, set contract strategies, align terms with company goals, and mitigate legal risk.

Provide commercial legal support for technology contracts (SaaS, cloud, software, hardware, AI), draft and negotiate complex agreements, advise on IP, privacy, data governance and information security, support M&A integration, partner with procurement and technology teams, and drive contracting playbooks and legal operations improvements.

The Legal Counsel will provide legal guidance and risk analyses for Interac, focusing on technology contracting, compliance, and advising on legal risks in fast-paced financial services.

Provide legal and regulatory advice on capital markets products, initiatives and policies, identify and mitigate legal risk, negotiate and influence outcomes, instruct external counsel, support business groups (up to global scope), and implement improvements while ensuring compliance with applicable laws and internal policies. Work independently on moderate-to-complex matters and build stakeholder relationships.

Provide corporate and commercial legal advice, manage IP portfolio and trademark matters, maintain corporate governance and entity records, ensure regulatory compliance and audit support, and streamline contract lifecycle and legal operations.

Provide legal support and strategic advice for North American real estate equity investments, including asset management and joint ventures, ensuring compliance and collaboration with teams.

The Legal Counsel will provide legal support, draft contracts, advise on legal issues, and manage correspondence with the headquarters in China, maintaining compliance and risk management.

The Legal Counsel, Commercial Services drafts and negotiates commercial contracts, provides legal advice on transactions, and supports various commercial strategies and compliance matters.

The In-House Legal Counsel II will manage insurance defense cases, draft legal documents, conduct mediations and trials, and advise on claims strategies while working collaboratively within a high-performing legal team.

Provide legal and regulatory advice for Canadian commercial business lines, analyze and mitigate legal risk, negotiate and implement solutions, instruct external counsel, identify emerging issues, and support compliance across business initiatives. Work independently on moderate-to-complex matters, build stakeholder relationships, and contribute to policy and process improvements with a global scope as needed.

Provide independent insurance defence litigation across property, casualty and accident benefits files. Draft pleadings, affidavits, opinions and hearing materials; conduct discoveries, mediations, LAT hearings, trials and other dispute resolution processes. Collaborate with internal teams, coach colleagues, report on claims with indemnity/expense control focus, and support senior counsel as needed.

Provide autonomous insurance defence counsel across property, casualty and accident benefits matters. Manage files end-to-end, draft pleadings and legal opinions, conduct discoveries, mediations, hearings and trials, coach colleagues, and support indemnity and expense control with pragmatic, efficient resolution strategies.

Provide bilingual legal advice on commercial, technology, privacy, IP and regulatory matters for a FinTech. Draft and negotiate commercial agreements, manage litigation and external counsel, support M&A due diligence, monitor regulatory changes, create precedent agreements and lead knowledge management to improve legal services and efficiency.

Independently manage a litigation caseload defending auto, accident benefits, bodily injury, commercial lines, property, subrogation and coverage files. Provide liability and quantum assessments, draft opinions/pleadings/motions, conduct Examinations for Discovery, and lead case conferences, LAT hearings, arbitrations and court appearances. Mentor colleagues and contribute to legal knowledge while delivering strong client service.

Provide legal advice and oversight of marketplaces and crypto trading platforms, review applications, develop market and dealer regulation policy, analyze compliance with Ontario securities laws, and manage multiple regulatory projects and stakeholder interactions.

Provide hands-on legal and regulatory advice across crypto, payments, securities and AML; partner with product, compliance and leadership to launch products, lead regulatory initiatives, draft commercial agreements, and improve legal processes using AI and automation.

The Senior Legal Counsel advises on employment law, develops legal frameworks, and supports corporate contracting matters while managing legal risk across Klick's offices.

The Senior Contract Manager will lead contract management for media agreements, ensuring compliance and alignment with business outcomes, while collaborating with multiple teams.

Act as a bilingual legal-technology expert architecting AI-powered contract solutions and drafting CLM redlining rules (80%). Serve as legal tech SME in client meetings, test and improve AI legal tools, train global teams, and handle in-house client/supplier contracts, compliance, and corporate governance (20%).

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.

As the first in-house legal counsel, you will manage legal frameworks, corporate governance, compliance, contract management, regulatory matters, and risk mitigation while advising the executive team.