Top Legal Jobs in Washington, DC

Partners with legal clients in leveraged finance and restructuring to map complex workflows involving credit agreements, debt structures, and covenants. Uses AI and LLM tools to prototype automated solutions for credit analysis and document research. Acts as a client-facing domain expert, codifies workflow knowledge, and translates client feedback into product enhancements in collaboration with product and engineering teams.

Manage litigation matters globally, formulate strategies, work with external counsel, and address legal issues including intellectual property and regulatory matters.

Provides practical legal advice on commercial contracts, regulatory compliance, data privacy, employment matters, and vendor and sales agreements. Drafts and negotiates SaaS, technology, consulting, and service contracts; supports procurement, sales, and HR teams; monitors global legal developments; and advises on compliance. Leads adoption of automation, AI, and legal technology to improve legal operations and supports scalable processes for a fully remote technology company.

Provides executive-level administrative and legal support to litigation and business law attorneys. Responsibilities include scheduling, client communication, electronic file management, document formatting, conflicts checks, engagement letters, billing assistance, expense reports, meeting coordination, and responding to routine inquiries. Requires strong organization, proofreading, communication, judgment, confidentiality, and administrative skills.

Provides legal research, fact-finding, memorandum and presentation drafting, policy development, contract support, and administrative assistance to the DNC Legal team. Work may involve election and campaign finance, voting rights, election administration, privacy, employment, labor, and contracts. The internship runs May 31 through August 6, 2027, requires at least 20 hours weekly, and is offered in-person, hybrid, or remotely within the United States.

Supports the DNC Legal team through legal research, fact-finding, drafting memoranda and presentations, developing internal policies, assisting with contract review and templates, and attending meetings. The internship focuses on election and campaign finance, voting rights, employment, labor, privacy, contracts, and related legal and administrative matters.

Provides legal counsel to Global IT and cybersecurity leadership on governance, regulatory compliance, risk management, incident response, third-party cybersecurity, privacy, and secure technology transformation. Develops cybersecurity legal frameworks and advises on investigations, audits, enforcement, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, and contractual risk mitigation. Partners with product security, compliance, communications, privacy, and enterprise risk teams across a global healthcare technology organization.

Provides specialized commercial legal advice for PayPal’s global merchant and partner transactions. Drafts and negotiates complex multinational agreements, advises on legal, regulatory, and compliance risks, supports strategic deal negotiations, coordinates cross-functional stakeholders, manages legal matters through resolution, and researches laws affecting global payment operations. Partners with sales, product, privacy, risk, regulatory, and regional legal teams to develop deal strategies and protect business objectives.

Provides legal counsel on commercial transactions, infrastructure projects, real estate, land use, procurement, and strategic initiatives. Drafts, reviews, and negotiates agreements; advises business stakeholders on risk and operational objectives; supports energy infrastructure and growth projects; and partners with engineering, construction, procurement, regulatory, and compliance teams. Requires a Juris Doctor, 5+ years of relevant legal experience, active bar membership, and eligibility to practice in DC, Maryland, or Virginia.

Lead government contracting and regulatory legal strategy, including FAR/DFARS compliance, export controls, contract negotiations, licensing, regulatory engagement, risk management, and compliance program development. Advise executives, business development, engineering, finance, operations, and supply chain teams; support audits and government stakeholders; manage outside counsel; and build scalable legal processes while mentoring a growing legal and compliance team.

Provides legal and contractual support for nonprofit programs and operations, including drafting, reviewing, negotiating, executing, and managing contracts. Advises business leaders on compliance, risk, intellectual property, tax-exempt requirements, privacy, and regulatory matters. Maintains contract templates, records, approval processes, and compliance workflows while conducting legal research and supporting strategic initiatives.

Provides enterprise-wide legal counsel on technology matters, including AI, SaaS, software as a medical device, data use, and digital health product development. Negotiates technology agreements, advises sales teams on RFPs, assesses regulatory risks, develops contract templates and negotiation playbooks, and supports risk mitigation, strategic legal analysis, and internal education.

Leads the corporate legal function, advising executive leadership and the board on capital markets, financing, securities, governance, equity, investor relations, corporate structuring, M&A, and strategic commercial agreements. Oversees corporate legal processes, manages a senior paralegal, supports transactions from diligence through closing, and builds scalable legal standards for a rapidly growing aerospace company.

Leads Medtronic’s global trade compliance program across regions and business units. Oversees import compliance, export controls, sanctions, policies, training, governance, risk assessments, controls, remediation, metrics, audit readiness, investigations, disclosures, and corrective actions. Advises senior leaders on trade risks, due diligence, business development, and integration planning while coordinating cross-functional stakeholders and translating complex regulatory issues into actionable decisions.

The Legal Technology and AI Attorney applies restructuring expertise to identify, evaluate, and implement AI-enabled tools, automation, knowledge resources, and technology-supported workflows. The role develops templates, playbooks, guidance, and practice-support systems; pilots emerging technologies; trains attorneys and staff; and collaborates with legal, technology, research, and administrative teams to improve efficiency, consistency, and scalability in restructuring matters.

The Legal Technology and AI Attorney will support the Investment Funds practice by identifying, designing, testing, and implementing AI-enabled legal workflows, automation tools, prompt libraries, and knowledge management resources. The role combines transactional legal expertise with technology experimentation, vendor collaboration, attorney training, template and precedent management, and development of practical guidance for lawyers and AI-assisted systems. Candidates must be licensed attorneys with 3–5 years of Investment Funds or related transactional experience and demonstrated interest in technology and workflow design.

Transactional attorney supporting M&A and Private Equity practices by identifying, evaluating, and implementing AI-enabled tools, document automation, prompt libraries, and knowledge workflows. The role enhances drafting resources, precedents, and knowledge infrastructure; analyzes market practice and legal materials; trains attorneys and staff; and translates legal judgment into scalable technology solutions. Requires at least four years of M&A or Private Equity experience, legal admission, strong communication skills, and interest or experience in workflow design, technology building, or process improvement.

Supports litigation teams by evaluating, configuring, and implementing AI and legal technology workflows. Develops prompts, AI-assisted research and drafting processes, litigation analytics solutions, governance frameworks, training materials, and best practices. Collaborates with attorneys, IT, Information Security, and Knowledge Management to improve document analysis, legal research, case preparation, and technology adoption.

Attorney supporting the intersection of technology, AI, and legal practice. Responsibilities include identifying AI and automation opportunities, evaluating and implementing legal technology tools, designing workflows, maintaining knowledge assets, analyzing legal work product, training attorneys and staff, and advising Tech & Innovation lawyers. The role requires at least four years of technology-focused legal experience, bar admission, strong communication skills, and an interest in workflow design, tool development, or process improvement.

Provides senior corporate, regulatory, commercial, healthcare, privacy, and intellectual property legal counsel. Drafts and negotiates customer, vendor, licensing, data use, and other business agreements; advises on product compliance, contracts, marketing materials, and risk strategies; manages legal projects and outside counsel; and supports federal, state, and industry compliance activities.

Owns regulatory filings, compliance calendars, KYC and AML processes, legal contract administration, corporate housekeeping, governance records, and investor reporting across UTOPIA’s fund manager and venture studio entities. Coordinates with outsourced compliance professionals, external counsel, regulators, administrators, and internal stakeholders to ensure obligations, filings, registers, and documentation remain accurate, complete, and timely.

Provide commercial and government-contracting legal support across the contract lifecycle, including drafting, negotiation, compliance, risk review, disputes, and contract administration. Advise on FAR, DFARS, procurement rules, state regulatory requirements, flow-down provisions, cybersecurity obligations, and government disclosures. Develop legal templates, playbooks, approval processes, and compliance procedures while partnering with Sales, Finance, Operations, Procurement, and Information Security in a remote, international environment.

Develop and improve AI-powered legal workflows for contract review, drafting, and negotiation. Collaborate with product, engineering, service delivery, and client teams; create training and enablement materials; monitor legal AI and contract automation markets; test prompts and prototypes; evaluate workflow quality and efficiency; and advise stakeholders on practical AI applications in legal services.

The Legal Operations Manager will manage contract lifecycles, negotiate commercial agreements, coordinate clinical and corporate legal matters, maintain governance and equity records, support financing diligence, oversee outside counsel and legal spend, administer contract management systems, and track intellectual property, compliance, and regulatory documentation. The role also develops scalable legal processes, workflows, templates, and reporting for a growing medtech company.

Leads legal execution for private-market transactions, including deal structuring, investment documents, SPV and fund formation, side-letter negotiations, escrow and settlement, securities compliance, and investor disclosures. Builds scalable legal infrastructure, templates, and workflows while partnering with business development, product, finance, operations, compliance, and outside counsel. This hands-on role manages transaction lifecycles from term sheet through closing and advises on complex securities and regulatory matters.