What Lead Legal Jobs Ask For
Across 210 open Lead Legal postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are regulatory-compliance, ai, fintech.
Updated September 19, 2026
629 open Lead Legal postings. The percentages below are measured over the 210 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| regulatory-compliance | 41% |
| ai | 37% |
| fintech | 22% |
| gdpr | 20% |
| ccpa | 19% |
| contract-lifecycle-management | 18% |
| cybersecurity | 18% |
| data-governance | 18% |
| business-development | 16% |
| web3 | 16% |
| stakeholder-management | 10% |
| legal-research | 9% |
| performance-management | 6% |
| 1c | 6% |
| analytics | 6% |
| process-improvement | 6% |
| iso-13485 | 4% |
| automation | 4% |
| cloud | 4% |
| saas | 4% |
| agile | 3% |
| dfars | 3% |
| generative-ai | 3% |
| sap | 3% |
| blockchain | 3% |
| nist | 3% |
| storyboarding | 3% |
| cissp | 2% |
| employee-relations | 2% |
| go-to-market | 2% |
| powerbi | 2% |
| program-management | 2% |
| sharepoint | 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 3,374
- regulatory-compliance 3,148
- ai 2,589
- stakeholder-management 1,420
- business-development 1,232
- gdpr 943
- cloud 802
- automation 799
- cybersecurity 773
- process-improvement 759
- saas 749
- fintech 655