Top Legal Jobs in Manchester

Drafts, reviews, and negotiates vendor, customer, licensing, and insertion order contracts. Collaborates with Legal, Commercial, Sales, Product, Engineering, Finance, and Accounting teams on contractual matters. Maintains contract workflows, tracks milestones, supports compliance and approvals, improves templates, trains employees, and monitors relevant laws. The role is UK-based or remote within the UK and is offered initially as a contract position.

Owns complex EMEA employment-law matters across the full employment lifecycle, including works council negotiations, labor proceedings, compliance, agreements, investigations, and organizational changes. Advises senior stakeholders, manages outside counsel, monitors legal developments, and builds scalable legal processes, playbooks, and documentation for GitLab’s globally distributed workforce.

Manage a high-volume portfolio of financial services litigation from pre-action through resolution, including pleadings, court documents, deadlines, settlements, possession claims, and security enforcement. Assess legal and commercial risk, provide recommendations, collaborate with internal stakeholders, and produce litigation reporting and trend analysis. The role also supports junior colleague supervision, quality assurance, process improvement, and adoption of legal technology and AI-enabled tools.

Provide commercially focused legal advice across AJ Bell, including drafting and negotiating supplier contracts, maintaining customer terms, researching legal issues, supporting regulatory obligations, and partnering with Product, Technology Services, Risk, and Compliance. The role requires managing legal risk, advising stakeholders, and improving legal processes through technology.

Leads the Governance and Legal Services function, overseeing governance, compliance, legal, regulatory, and risk frameworks. Advises trustees, senior leadership, and stakeholders across multiple jurisdictions; supports the Board and committees; manages legal counsel; and provides guidance on charity law, corporate governance, employment law, contracts, data protection, regulatory compliance, and organizational change.

Coordinate in-person and virtual corporate events, managing venues, suppliers, invitations, registration, materials, merchandise, CRM guest lists, and on-site logistics. Collaborate with legal, marketing, IT, facilities, and design teams to deliver consistent brand experiences. Maintain event records, calendars, and supplier information while supporting post-event reporting, feedback, surveys, follow-up communications, and lead referrals.

Design and validate realistic legal research, contract analysis, litigation support, and regulatory review tasks for AI evaluation. Analyze legal documents, statutes, regulations, case law, and contractual provisions; identify risks and inconsistencies; prepare research summaries and reference solutions; assess citations and AI-generated legal analyses; and establish objective evaluation criteria while protecting confidentiality and privilege.

Provide independent, expert legal advice across Ofcom’s regulatory work, including policy development, consultations, decision-making, litigation, enforcement, and drafting regulatory rules and guidance. Assess legal risk, advise on complex matters, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and external stakeholders, and support junior lawyers through peer review. The role covers communications, media, technology, online safety, data protection, competition, consumer, and public law.

Processes high-volume electronic invoices for professional services clients across multiple e-billing platforms. Responsibilities include uploading bills, meeting deadlines, following client guidelines, resolving rejections and short payments, maintaining billing data, updating accruals and budgets, reconciling Aderant with client portals, and liaising with lawyers, partners, credit controllers, and internal teams.

Manage customer data migrations and onboarding from initial handoff through completion. Responsibilities include mapping, analyzing, transforming, and importing complex datasets; coordinating with customers, engineers, and internal stakeholders; maintaining accurate records; resolving issues; and improving the onboarding experience. The role requires extensive Excel and database work, customer communication, project coordination, and management of multiple migrations simultaneously.

Owns regulatory filings, compliance calendars, KYC and AML processes, legal contract administration, corporate housekeeping, governance records, and investor reporting across UTOPIA’s fund manager and venture studio entities. Coordinates with outsourced compliance professionals, external counsel, regulators, administrators, and internal stakeholders to ensure obligations, filings, registers, and documentation remain accurate, complete, and timely.

Creates, edits, researches, and quality assures UK legal education materials, assessments, and digital learning resources. The role monitors legal and assessment changes, collaborates with internal teams and external experts, supports accreditation and regulatory submissions, manages content systems, analyzes learner feedback, and contributes legal subject-matter expertise, product improvements, and author onboarding.

Leads enterprise technology strategy, delivery, and transformation across Finance, FinTech, Legal, and Risk. Oversees product platforms, Agile and DevOps adoption, AI and data initiatives, digital transformation, change management, vendor partnerships, governance, and technology operations. Partners with executive stakeholders to align global priorities, integrate platforms, manage dependencies, and deliver scalable, secure, value-driven outcomes across a federated enterprise technology organization.

Build and lead SINGU’s first in-house legal function, owning commercial contracts, enterprise negotiations, M&A, compliance, data protection, employment law, corporate governance, IP, and external counsel. Reporting to the Group CFO, this role supports a multi-country SaaS group across the UK, EU, Poland, and Germany. The successful candidate will establish legal processes, standardize contracts, manage legal risk, support acquisitions and integrations, and provide practical advice to executives, the Board, Sales, People & Culture, and other business teams.

Manage and develop a team of senior and lead probate case managers, ensure high-quality legal advice and case progression, provide technical audit support, champion client service, and drive continuous improvement.

Owns legal intake, matter tracking, contract workflows, commercial agreement support, approvals, records, reporting, external counsel administration, and broader paralegal operations. The role drafts and reviews lower-risk agreements, maintains templates and playbooks, coordinates stakeholders, supports governance and customer due diligence, and improves legal processes through automation and responsible AI use.

The Account Executive will generate and manage new business opportunities through outbound prospecting, networking, and marketing leads. Responsibilities include conducting consultative sales conversations, delivering software demonstrations, preparing proposals, managing negotiations through close, maintaining CRM records and forecasts, and developing expertise in the legal software market. The role requires strong communication, relationship-building, commercial awareness, and the ability to manage a sales territory and full sales cycle.

Lead Pencil’s legal operations for client and vendor contracting, including complex enterprise agreements, MSAs, terms, DPAs, and privacy policies. Advise product teams on AI capabilities, data privacy, intellectual property, and evolving regulations such as the EU AI Act and GDPR. Align vendor obligations with client commitments, manage legal risk, brief leadership, and develop thought leadership on Generative AI law in advertising.

Provide pragmatic commercial legal advice across the business; draft and negotiate commercial agreements (SaaS, software licensing, subcontracting, reseller); support data governance, regulatory compliance, healthcare-specific issues; assist with M&A, risk management, legal training, and stakeholder engagement in a hybrid Leeds-based digital healthcare business.

Provides first-line customer support for Alt Legal and WebTMS through email, live chat, and phone. Resolves issues, trains customers, conducts data audits and imports in Google Sheets, supports key accounts, maintains CRM records, escalates product issues, develops training materials, presents webinars, and advocates for customer needs. The role also assists with team onboarding and training while supporting customer adoption, satisfaction, retention, and account health.

Provides business-focused legal counsel for commercial SaaS activities, drafting and negotiating technology, cloud, licensing, customer, supplier, reseller, and partner agreements. Advises on contractual disputes, commercial risk, data privacy, GDPR, security requirements, and regulatory matters. Develops contract templates and negotiation playbooks, collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders, manages external counsel, and monitors developments in technology and commercial law.

Provides legal and administrative support to solicitors handling personal injury and clinical negligence files. Responsibilities include maintaining case files, conducting legal research, managing correspondence, recording time accurately, and supporting team activities. The role requires strong organisation, attention to detail, communication skills, and a proactive approach, while offering opportunities to develop legal expertise through training and hands-on experience.

Manage relationships with a portfolio of defined contribution pension clients, supporting strategic accounts, client meetings, reporting quality, retention, growth, cross-selling, and compliant service delivery. The role partners with senior client directors, addresses operational issues, identifies new business opportunities, maintains CRM records, and applies knowledge of DC products, administration, regulation, and market trends to improve client outcomes.

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.