What Lead Legal Jobs Ask For
Across 238 open Lead Legal postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are regulatory-compliance, ai, risk-assessment.
Updated October 10, 2026
757 open Lead Legal postings. The percentages below are measured over the 238 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| regulatory-compliance | 37% |
| ai | 33% |
| risk-assessment | 32% |
| fintech | 19% |
| gdpr | 18% |
| business-development | 18% |
| cybersecurity | 17% |
| data-governance | 17% |
| ccpa | 16% |
| contract-lifecycle-management | 16% |
| web3 | 15% |
| stakeholder-management | 10% |
| 1c | 7% |
| analytics | 6% |
| legal-research | 5% |
| process-improvement | 5% |
| performance-management | 4% |
| saas | 4% |
| iso-13485 | 4% |
| automation | 3% |
| corrective-action | 3% |
| generative-ai | 3% |
| sap | 3% |
| veeva | 3% |
| blockchain | 3% |
| cloud | 3% |
| data-analytics | 3% |
| dfars | 3% |
| erp | 3% |
| hipaa | 3% |
| storyboarding | 3% |
| accessibility | 3% |
| employee-relations | 3% |
| powerbi | 3% |
| sharepoint | 3% |
| go-to-market | 2% |
| nist | 2% |
| vendor-management | 2% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
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Across all Legal levels
Most Legal postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- legal-research 4,319
- regulatory-compliance 3,680
- ai 2,916
- risk-assessment 2,691
- stakeholder-management 1,734
- business-development 1,659
- corrective-action 1,378
- gdpr 1,040
- process-improvement 936
- automation 931
- cybersecurity 848
- cloud 839