Top Legal Jobs in Washington, DC

Supports SoFi’s Litigation and Arbitration group by managing service-of-process intake, subpoenas, threatened and filed matters, legal correspondence, litigation tracking, invoices, vendors, and legal support workflows. Maintains accurate case records, coordinates with attorneys and outside counsel, supports complex legal requests, and ensures timely responses while handling confidential information and multiple deadlines.

Lead securities, public company reporting, corporate governance, entity management, and M&A legal work for GitLab. Manage SEC filings, proxy statements, board matters, equity plans, subsidiary governance, transactions, and outside counsel. Advise senior stakeholders on legal risks, maintain compliance processes, and create scalable legal playbooks, templates, and workflows. Collaborate with globally distributed cross-functional teams and train junior legal professionals.

Leads Blee’s Legal Engineering function, translating advertising, consumer protection, and regulatory requirements into scalable AI review logic. Owns legal frameworks, quality measurement, regulatory updates, customer guidance, product collaboration, and team growth. Partners with legal, compliance, product, implementation, customer success, and AI engineering teams while representing Blee externally. Also supports in-house legal matters, including commercial agreements.

Serve as the primary legal partner to Procurement, drafting and negotiating high-value buy-side agreements across SaaS, software, marketing, facilities, professional services, and real estate. Provide guidance on complex transactions, risk allocation, data privacy, technology contracting, and vendor risk. Develop scalable contracting processes, playbooks, templates, training, and knowledge resources while leveraging automation and legal technology. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and support broader Legal team initiatives.

Leads public-company securities compliance, SEC reporting, capital markets transactions, corporate governance, board support, M&A, strategic investments, equity programs, executive compensation, investor communications, and legal operations. Advises executives and directors, manages external counsel and budgets, and implements legal technology and AI workflows. Requires a J.D., active bar membership, and 10–12+ years of corporate legal experience spanning top-tier law firms and public technology companies.

Provide legal and regulatory counsel for PayPal-branded U.S. consumer credit products, including distribution, marketing, onboarding, servicing, disputes, and collections. Advise business teams on consumer credit, payments, lending, and consumer protection laws; assess legal risks; research regulatory developments; support examinations and audits; manage legal matters; and deliver practical guidance to cross-functional stakeholders.

Supports legal and policy advocacy through legislative, legal, and policy research; drafts analytical memos and briefing materials; monitors hearings, court developments, legislation, and regulatory activity; supports member meetings and events; updates advocacy materials; and assists with legal reform projects and administrative tasks.

Legal interns work with attorneys on litigation and amicus-related projects, conduct legal research, and address media law issues involving press freedom and journalists’ rights. Internships are full-time summer positions for current first- and second-year law students. Candidates should be detail-oriented and interested in U.S. press freedom and media law; journalism experience or interest is preferred.

Provides strategic legal counsel and transactional support for direct sourcing, contract manufacturing, product development, technology, licensing, and complex supplier relationships. Leads sophisticated commercial negotiations, advises on contractual and operational risk, resolves supplier disputes, and develops contracting templates, playbooks, guidance, and training. The role partners with global supply management and cross-functional stakeholders in a regulated medical technology environment.

Draft amicus briefs for federal and state supreme courts, develop legal arguments, communicate with counsel, conduct legal research, and write independently. Associates receive intensive training in legal writing and contribute to publications including the Cato Supreme Court Review. The one-year hybrid role offers preparation for a career in constitutional and pro-liberty litigation.

Provide legal and regulatory oversight for Starlink products worldwide: analyze regulatory requirements, manage license applications and filings, review marketing, handle regulatory complaints, design scalable compliance processes, automate recurring tasks, and support cross-team regulatory compliance efforts for product launches and operations.

Creates and maintains practical legal content on public and private securities offerings, monitors capital markets developments, and supports AI-powered legal product development. The role requires advising issuers and underwriters, collaborating with product teams and external contributors, responding to customer inquiries, and supporting sales and marketing. Candidates need a JD, at least eight years of relevant legal experience, strong writing and technology skills, and expertise in US securities law.

Provide legal and regulatory support for Starlink products globally: research cross-border regulations, manage license applications and filings, review marketing, handle regulatory customer complaints, design scalable compliance processes, automate recurring tasks, and coordinate with internal teams for product launches and compliance.

Provides litigation support to federal prosecutors, including discovery management, document review, legal research, deposition and transcript summaries, case file maintenance, exhibit preparation, and courtroom assistance. Supports health care fraud investigations and prosecutions using eDiscovery and litigation support tools. Requires a paralegal certificate or bachelor’s degree, relevant experience, strong communication and computer skills, and eligibility for DOJ MBI clearance.

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.

Supports ATF attorneys by reviewing and analyzing case materials, conducting legal research, preparing reports and correspondence, organizing trial exhibits, interviewing witnesses, verifying citations, attending pre-trial meetings, and summarizing testimony and depositions. The role also investigates case facts and laws, searches public records, and helps prepare litigation materials under demanding conditions.

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.

Supports ATF attorneys by reviewing case materials, conducting legal and public-record research, preparing reports and correspondence, organizing trial exhibits, interviewing witnesses, verifying citations, and summarizing testimony and depositions. Requires a paralegal certificate or at least two years of related law office or government experience, plus legal research, writing, organizational, Microsoft Office, and litigation-support skills. U.S. citizenship and a seven- or ten-year background investigation are required.

Provides legal and compliance guidance on global import and customs matters, including country of origin, valuation, tariff classification, trade remedies, free trade agreements, and customs programs. Advises business, supply chain, and legal teams on regulatory changes, investigations, audits, protests, disclosures, litigation, due diligence, and risk mitigation. Develops compliance standards and employee training while serving as the import legal and compliance subject matter expert across a global, matrixed organization.

Provides legal advice and develops strategies for federal and state healthcare policy initiatives supporting access to AbbVie products. Advises Government Affairs and business clients on laws including the Inflation Reduction Act, Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, 340B, FDA regulations, and OIG guidance. Manages outside counsel, supports complex legal matters, oversees projects, and collaborates across Legal, Government Affairs, Ethics and Compliance, and business teams.

Provides litigation support to federal prosecutors in the Department of Justice Health Care Fraud Unit. Responsibilities include organizing and summarizing discovery materials, maintaining case files and databases, conducting basic legal research, reviewing documents for relevance and privilege, preparing deposition and trial exhibits, supporting courtroom activities, and compiling materials for FOIA and Congressional inquiries.

Advise Goldman Sachs businesses and stakeholders on U.S. consumer deposits, electronic payments, bank regulatory, contractual, and transactional matters. Responsibilities include researching complex legal issues, reviewing product designs, drafting agreements and disclosures, monitoring regulatory developments, developing policies and controls, managing external counsel, and supporting cross-enterprise initiatives. The role requires translating complex regulations into actionable guidance for technology, operations, compliance, risk, and business teams.

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.

Supports NRDC’s Federal Climate initiatives through climate litigation research, legal memorandum and brief drafting, administrative advocacy, comment letters, standing declarant interviews, and strategy discussions. The intern collaborates with litigation teams and participates in legal learning programs while working onsite in Washington, D.C. three days per week.

Supports federal and state public policy advocacy by tracking legislation, researching regulations, preparing advocacy materials, managing policy data and reports, and coordinating communications with government offices and coalition partners. Provides administrative support to the Deputy Legal Director, including calendaring, travel, budgets, and meeting materials. Also assists attorneys with legal research, pleadings, briefs, cite-checking, court filings, case files, and compliance with court rules.