Overview
In-House Counsel Jobs in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates at Legaline Platform
Title: In-House Counsel
Company: Legaline Platform
Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
About Legaline
Legaline Platform is the UAE’s first AI-native LegalTech platform, engineered in-house for a market that spans federal law, seven emirates, DIFC, ADGM, and more than 40 free zones. Thirty-three jurisdictions. One platform that finally makes UAE law speak yours.
Clients post legal tasks with a budget. Licensed lawyers bid in a closed auction. Communication, negotiation, signing, and payment all happen inside the platform, with Stripe-secured safe deals and milestone execution, and end-to-end encryption built in. For lawyers, Legaline delivers what was once reserved for global giants: 12-second document drafting with citation-integrity guardrails, an AI research assistant covering 35 legal areas across 33 jurisdictions, and AI Assistant’s Brainstorm Mode, the world’s first orchestral AI model for legal practice. Five specialized AI agents. One roundtable. Partner-grade synthesis, engineered in-house using advanced machine learning and neural-network systems.
Our curated corpus of primary UAE legal sources, federal decree-laws, emirate regulations, free zone rules, DIFC and ADGM statutes, is indexed into more than 60,000 searchable passages with inline citations.
Headquartered in Dubai. Built for the UAE. Designed to scale across the world.
The Role
We’re hiring In-House Counsel to sit at the center of a company that is, itself, reshaping how legal work gets done. You’ll advise Legaline on the legal and regulatory questions that come with operating a licensed-lawyer marketplace across 33 jurisdictions, while helping shape the compliance backbone that lets clients and lawyers transact with confidence.
This is a high-visibility, high-ownership role inside a platform built by lawyers, for lawyers, where your counsel directly shapes the product experience of thousands of legal professionals across the region.
What You’ll Do
- Advise on regulatory matters across UAE federal law, the emirates, DIFC, ADGM, and Legaline’s growing footprint across free zones
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, platform terms, and lawyer and client contracts
- Own compliance frameworks for licensing, data protection, and payment-related regulation across the jurisdictions Legaline operates in
- Partner with product and engineering to build legal and compliance logic directly into the platform, including how AI-assisted drafting and research tools are positioned and disclosed
- Manage outside counsel relationships where specialized or cross-border expertise is needed
- Monitor regulatory developments across the UAE’s legal technology and marketplace landscape and translate them into practical guidance for the business
- Support corporate governance, IP protection, and risk matters as Legaline scales across the region and beyond
What We’re Looking For
- Qualified lawyer with 3 to 6 years of experience, ideally including in-house or platform, marketplace, fintech, or professional services environments
- Strong grounding in UAE law, with familiarity across DIFC and ADGM frameworks a strong plus
- Fluent English required; Arabic is a strong advantage
- Comfortable translating complex legal and regulatory questions into clear, actionable guidance for a fast-moving product and business team
- Genuine interest in legal technology and how AI is changing the practice of law
- Organized, pragmatic, and able to manage multiple workstreams independently
- Based in the UAE or willing to relocate to Dubai
Nice to Have
- Experience advising a two-sided marketplace, SaaS, or fintech platform
- Exposure to legal technology, AI governance, or data protection regulation
- Prior experience working alongside licensed professionals in a regulated marketplace context
What We Offer
- A seat at the table of a fast-growing, AI-native LegalTech company
- Direct influence over how legal and compliance are built into the product itself
- An ambitious team headquartered in Dubai, building for the region and beyond
- Competitive compensation package
