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LinkedIn

Senior Lead Counsel, Litigation

Hybrid

Mountain view, United states

$ 280,000 /year

Senior

Full Time

11-09-2025

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Company Description

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun - where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

This role is preferred to be based in our Bay Area office locations (San Francisco or Mountain View).

As Senior Lead Litigation Counsel at LinkedIn and a member of LinkedIn's Litigation, Competition, and Enforcement team, you will be responsible for managing all kinds of litigation and pre-litigation disputes. You will also handle subpoenas and regulatory responses, oversee eDiscovery on your matters, and provide litigation and regulatory risk counseling related to LinkedIn business issues. Best of all, you'll join a fast-paced, well-rounded, collaborative Legal & Public Policy Team that values diversity, humor, and teamwork.

Responsibilities:

Manage a global docket of all kinds of litigation and pre-litigation disputes for the company, including privacy and consumer class actions, intellectual property litigation, individual and class employment litigation/arbitration, commercial lawsuits, disputes brought by individual platform users, and more
Dig into the business and legal context of your matters in order to drive strategic and tactical case decisions
Develop the best possible evidentiary record for your cases by investigating sources of information available across the business
Handle subpoenas and regulatory inquiries, and other litigation-adjacent matters
Work to establish internal practices to mitigate litigation risks, ensure effective responses when such risks materialize, and to efficiently respond to a growing volume of matters
Drive good business results by providing practical legal advice on a range of product issues impacted by active or threatened litigation matters
Engage and manage outside counsel and vendors to ensure the delivery of practical, efficient, and expert litigation advice and service
Participate in cross-functional projects and initiatives for the Legal & Public Policy Team, LinkedIn, and the community
Play an active role in fulfilling LinkedIn's mission of connecting the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful by being an integral member of our fast-paced, well-rounded, collaborative (and fun!) Legal & Public Policy Team

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

J.D. and admission to the bar or the ability to practice in-house in your office location
8+ years of combined litigation experience at a law firm, in-house, and/or governmental agencies

Preferred Qualifications:

Broad litigation experience including discovery, motion practice, oral arguments, trials, drafting compelling briefs, pre-suit activity, offensive litigation, mediation, and settlement negotiations
Experience and comfort with highly-technical subject matter
Experience working in-house at a technology company as a litigator, including hiring and managing outside counsel
Comfort with eDiscovery support software and complicated data, business records systems, and eDiscovery issues
A sense of urgency to quickly identify, understand, and resolve legal and business issues
Ability to deliver clear and concise advice and direction
Strong interpersonal skills with ability to work effectively both independently and in cross-functional teams to drive results
Excellent judgment and analytical abilities, impeccable integrity, and a good sense of humor

Suggested Skills:

Litigation
Consumer Class Action
Privacy, IP, Copyright, Patent Law
Regulatory Response

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $172,000 - $280,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

Additional Information

Equal Opportunity Statement

We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and bac

About the Company

Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 1 billion members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network. The company has a diversified business model with revenue coming from Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Sales Solutions and Premium Subscriptions products. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices across the globe.. Know more