Senior Counsel, Litigation & Disputes

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Taking full responsibility for Apollo's litigation portfolio from start to finish — overseeing active disputes, pre-litigation demand letters, regulatory inquiries, and arbitrations in commercial, employment, and data-related areas.

• Acting as the main in-house liaison with external litigation counsel: defining engagement scopes, managing expenses, directing strategy, and ensuring leadership receives clear and timely updates.

• Developing and sustaining litigation infrastructure: implementing legal hold procedures, tracking matters, establishing outside counsel guidelines, and creating internal escalation protocols.

• Collaborating with the Privacy, Compliance, and Security teams on data retention policies.

• Providing counsel to cross-functional stakeholders — including Sales, Product, Engineering, and People — on litigation risks, preservation requirements, and strategies to avoid disputes in straightforward, actionable language.

• Recognizing trends within the litigation portfolio that indicate systemic product, operational, or contractual risks and proactively communicating these insights to leadership.

• Assisting the broader legal team with commercial disputes stemming from customer and vendor agreements, particularly by working closely with Commercial Counsel on escalated issues.

• Overseeing discovery workflows, including collaborating with internal teams for document collection and review, as well as managing e-discovery vendors when appropriate.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive litigation experience, with a proven history of managing complex commercial, data, or employment disputes as either lead or co-lead counsel; in-house litigation experience is highly preferred.

• Proven capability to effectively manage outside counsel — defining engagement scopes, challenging strategy and expenses, and ensuring appropriate in-house ownership of critical decisions.

• Proficiency in matters at the intersection of litigation and data privacy, including consumer class actions, regulatory inquiries, and disputes involving data practices; familiarity with CCPA, GDPR, or similar regulations is advantageous.

• Strong business acumen and the ability to translate litigation risks into practical, risk-adjusted recommendations for stakeholders who are not lawyers.

• Superior written and verbal communication skills — able to simplify complex issues into clear executive summaries and cross-functional guidance.

• Project management skills: able to monitor an active docket and keep multiple matters progressing concurrently.

• Previous experience in building or enhancing litigation infrastructure (hold procedures, matter tracking, outside counsel guidelines) is preferred.

• Comfort in fast-paced, resource-limited environments where the scope is broad and priorities can change.

• A genuine curiosity and interest in understanding Apollo's product, data practices, and business model as a context for legal risk.

• Proficient in using AI tools to improve research, drafting, and workflow efficiency.

• J.D. degree and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity

• Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses

• 401(k) plan

• At least 10 paid holidays per year

• Flexible PTO

• Parental leave

• Employee assistance program and wellbeing benefits

• Global travel coverage

• Life/AD&D/STD/LTD insurance

• FSA/HSA and medical, dental, and vision benefits