What Lead Legal Jobs Ask For
Across 137 open Lead Legal postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are regulatory-compliance, ai, risk-assessment.
Updated October 28, 2026
162 open Lead Legal postings. The percentages below are measured over the 137 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| regulatory-compliance | 43% |
| ai | 42% |
| risk-assessment | 37% |
| fintech | 31% |
| gdpr | 30% |
| ccpa | 29% |
| cybersecurity | 29% |
| data-governance | 27% |
| web3 | 27% |
| contract-lifecycle-management | 26% |
| business-development | 13% |
| legal-research | 8% |
| microsoft-365 | 8% |
| sharepoint | 6% |
| veeva | 6% |
| corrective-action | 4% |
| process-improvement | 4% |
| agile | 4% |
| dfars | 4% |
| powerbi | 4% |
| saas | 4% |
| stakeholder-management | 4% |
"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 2,367
- ai 1,831
- regulatory-compliance 1,530
- risk-assessment 1,085
- business-development 650
- gdpr 649
- stakeholder-management 646
- corrective-action 523
- cybersecurity 506
- automation 505
- cloud 446
- saas 426