Texas Instruments

Legal Counsel - Commercial Engagements

Texas Instruments$120K — $150K *
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Licensed to practice law in Texas or eligible for licensure.
  • 5+ years of transactional or litigation experience at a leading law firm or corporate law department, ideally in an international context.
  • Strong analytical, advocacy, and critical thinking skills.
  • Proven ability to solve problems independently and collaboratively.
  • Demonstrated project management capabilities, able to balance multiple tasks effectively.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Eagerness to learn new areas of law and leverage technology within legal services.

Responsibilities

  • Advise on complex commercial contracts and global business operations.
  • Manage a diverse portfolio of legal matters with a proactive and strategic approach.
  • Create reusable contractual structures to streamline legal processes.
  • Implement standardized and automated legal solutions to enhance operational efficiency.
  • Contribute to the development of legal knowledge assets and data analytics.
  • Work collaboratively with international teams to align legal strategies with business goals.
  • Escalate legal matters purposefully to facilitate effective decision-making.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for career ownership and professional development.
  • A diverse and inclusive workplace that values every employee's voice.
  • Comprehensive benefits designed to support employee well-being and work-life balance.
Full Job Description
Job Description

TI's Law Department is seeking a skilled, highly motivated, and proactive self-starter to join our Worldwide Commercial Engagements team as Legal Counsel. You will operate in a fast-moving, global environment supporting a cutting-edge and expanding semiconductor company, serving as a trusted advisor to leaders across TI.

You will join an experienced, collaborative Dallas-based legal team. The role offers broad, international exposure to complex commercial contracts, online commerce, intellectual property, open-source and software licensing, supply chain, marketing, crisis communications, and cybersecurity. Experience with technology licensing, tech transfer, or IP-intensive transactions is a plus.

We are looking for agile learners and true go-getters-attorneys who take initiative, anticipate issues, and independently drive matters to completion. You will manage your own portfolio, apply strong business judgment, and work across an international team to advise on emerging and evolving business models.

In this role, you will help ensure TI is asking-and solving-the right questions. You will quickly assess whether an issue advances a meaningful business objective, reframe it when needed, and deprioritize it when it doesn't. You'll begin each project with a clear definition of success, align with stakeholders upfront, and track whether your actions deliver the intended outcome. You will be expected to escalate thoughtfully and with purpose-to improve outcomes, not simply to be cautious-using escalation to drive alignment, enable decisions, or materially shift strategy while maintaining responsibility for forward progress.

You will help us move from custom, one-off lawyering to modular contract architecture by creating reusable contract structures and legal frameworks that enable speed, scale, and consistent risk posture. You will help modernize our operations through standardization, automation, and AI. We are looking for someone who gives data-driven advice, grounded in prior deal history, defined legal positions, and prevailing market norms. You'll contribute to building and maintaining the legal data, playbooks, and knowledge assets that support this approach.

Qualifications

Minimum requirements:
  • Must be, or be eligible to become, licensed to practice law in the State of Texas.
  • Minimum of five years of experience practicing transactional (preferred) and/or litigation related work at a top law firm, corporate law department or equivalent experience (ideally international context).

Preferred qualifications:
  • Strong advocacy, critical thinking, and analytical skills.
  • Ability to creatively solve problems independently and in a team environment.
  • Ability to balance detail-orientation and strategic thinking.
  • Ability to manage multiple issues/projects at the same time; project management experience.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
  • Willingness to tackle new subject matter areas and an eagerness to constantly learn.
  • Strong interpersonal skills; ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with a diverse international team of lawyers and business managers.
  • Interest and enthusiasm in leveraging technology for the provision of legal services.
  • The ideal candidate will have experience representing or interacting with technology, automotive and/or manufacturing companies.


If you are interested in this position, please apply to this requisition.

About Texas Instruments

National Semiconductor is a semiconductor manufacturer, specializing in analog devices and subsystems, headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The products of National Semiconductor include power management circuits, display drivers, audio and operational amplifiers, communication interface products and data conversion solutions. National's key markets include wireless handsets, displays and a variety of broad electronics markets, including medical, automotive, industrial, and test and measurement applications.

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