Top Legal Jobs in Washington, DC

Support clients seeking disability benefits or insurance compensation by maintaining case progress, coordinating missing documentation with the SSA, and assisting attorneys and paralegals with claims. The role also involves improving workflows, collaborating across teams, supporting client testimonials, and testing product tools. It is a remote startup position with opportunities to develop legal expertise and advance toward paralegal responsibilities.

Provides in-house legal counsel across privacy, cybersecurity, AI, SaaS contracts, technology transactions, intellectual property, trademarks, copyright, marketing compliance, and product development. Reviews and negotiates agreements, advises on privacy and AI regulations, supports security incidents and ISO/SOC audits, manages outside counsel, guides product and marketing teams, and develops legal policies, playbooks, training, and compliance processes.

Participate in a structured rotation across legal, public affairs, and compliance teams. Conduct legal and regulatory research, analyze complex issues, draft documents and communications, identify business risks, recommend mitigation strategies, and report findings to leadership. The 12-week program provides rising second-year law students with supervised in-house legal experience in healthcare, compliance, public policy, and risk management.

Supports legislative advocacy by tracking legislation, monitoring congressional activity, conducting research, drafting materials, preparing congressional meetings, responding to congressional inquiries, and maintaining contact databases. The intern gains experience in federal appropriations, public policy, government relations, and civil justice reform while working up to 20 hours weekly in a hybrid Washington, DC role.

Provides strategic legal and regulatory counsel for PayPal and Venmo consumer credit products, including BNPL, credit cards, underwriting, fraud controls, fair lending, disclosures, servicing, collections, and digital checkout integration. Advises product, risk, compliance, marketing, finance, and partner teams from product design through launch and ongoing operations. Manages legal risks, regulatory assessments, escalations, partner relationships, and industry developments while mentoring colleagues and improving legal workflows with AI-enabled tools.

Law student interns support NCOSE’s Law Center by assisting with litigation, drafting pleadings, briefs, demand letters, appeals, policy documents, model legislation, and legal memoranda. Interns receive mentorship from NCOSE attorneys and contribute to work addressing sexual exploitation, trafficking, prostitution, and pornography. The unpaid internship runs January 6 through April 16, 2027, requires 15–40 hours weekly, and is based primarily in Washington, DC.

Legal interns support the NCOSE Law Center through litigation research, drafting pleadings, briefs, demand letters, appeals, policy advocacy documents, model legislation, and legal memoranda. Interns work with the General Counsel and attorneys on issues involving sexual exploitation, trafficking, prostitution, and pornography. The unpaid internship runs May 12 through August 6, 2027, requires 15–40 hours weekly, and is based at the Washington, DC headquarters.

Supports ATF attorneys with federal forfeiture cases by analyzing investigative materials, researching laws and facts, evaluating probable cause, preparing discovery and legal pleadings, organizing case files and exhibits, assisting with settlements and pretrial preparation, and developing reports and trial exhibits. The role also involves interviewing law enforcement personnel, managing witnesses, training staff, and using litigation-support technology and legal databases.

Supports ATF attorneys with federal forfeiture cases by reviewing investigative materials, researching laws and public records, assessing probable cause, preparing discovery and legal documents, organizing exhibits, managing witnesses, summarizing proceedings, and developing trial exhibits. The role also includes settlement preparation, case file management, database use, reporting, and training personnel.

Conduct legal research on FASD and justice-system issues, including competency, Miranda rights, sentencing, diversion, and disability accommodations. Support amicus briefs, legal memoranda, case tracking, training materials, fact sheets, and Justice Advisory Committee resources. The intern will synthesize legal and clinical information, coordinate with subject-matter experts, and contribute to nonprofit legal strategy and policy initiatives.

Analyze anti-money laundering, counterterrorist financing, and financial-regulatory developments; write clear legal intelligence briefs; and perform final substantive and copy edits. The role determines coverage priorities, fact-checks content, coordinates daily editorial workflows, oversees publication, supports other writers, and maintains editorial continuity. It also uses content management and AI-enabled research tools responsibly while validating sources and protecting sensitive information.

Provides administrative and litigation support to legal staff, including preparing correspondence, pleadings, court filings, witness and trial binders, deposition materials, and exhibits. Manages billing entries and records, calendars, travel, client files, document integrity, and electronic filing notifications. Requires litigation law firm experience, advanced Microsoft Word and Office skills, familiarity with PACER and court ECF systems, document management expertise, strong proofreading, transcription, organizational, communication, and multitasking abilities.

The Legal Extern supports KIPP DC’s in-house Legal Team under attorney supervision while earning law-school course credit. Responsibilities include legal research and memorandum drafting, analyzing legal developments, reviewing and drafting organizational policies, preparing training materials, records management, data collection, reviewing vendor insurance certificates, and supporting investigations. The hybrid externship requires 1–2 days weekly at headquarters or a KIPP DC school, with remote flexibility.

Serves as primary legal advisor to People and Recruiting on employment, immigration, workplace, and termination matters. Leads U.S. compliance efforts, develops employment risk playbooks, supports privacy and data protection work, manages outside counsel, and drafts and negotiates commercial agreements. The role also provides flexible support for government contracting, compliance programs, litigation holds, and business deals in a fast-growing technology company.

Provides strategic legal and regulatory advice to senior management, assesses and manages enterprise legal risks, supports compliance, handles escalations, and develops forward-looking risk mitigation strategies. The role partners across the organization to advance business objectives, influence executive decision-making, adopt legal technologies and best practices, and provide industry leadership on emerging legal trends.

The Legal Support Specialist provides administrative and practice support to attorneys in the Intellectual Property group, including managing legal files, preparing correspondence, and maintaining communication with clients and courts.

Provides legal assistant support across corporate and litigation matters, including case and document management, legal research, filings, deposition and trial preparation, entity formation, closings, proofreading, docket monitoring, and client correspondence. The role requires strong organization, attention to detail, communication skills, Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat proficiency, overtime availability, and obtaining notary certification within six months.

Provides senior legal operations, paralegal, administrative, and corporate governance support to North American and Group Legal teams. Responsibilities include commercial contracts, litigation, employment matters, securities filings, acquisitions, due diligence, legal entity management, Board meetings, corporate records, matter tracking, and legal process improvement. The role requires discretion, strong organization, sound judgment, and the ability to manage confidential information and competing priorities independently.

Conduct workplace investigations, maintain multi-jurisdictional employment policies, advise on performance management, accommodations, leave, and employee relations matters, and draft employment and severance agreements. Support agency inquiries, subpoenas, litigation holds, document collection, contractor classification reviews, regulatory research, and pre-litigation risk mitigation. The role partners closely with Employment Counsel and Human Resources across a distributed workforce.

Legal interns/externs support the LEAD Legal Services team under attorney supervision. Responsibilities include legal research, drafting memoranda and motions, preparing litigation filings and discovery, interviewing and representing clients, and assisting with matters involving eviction, family law, reentry, immigration, criminal record vacation, and warrants. The role emphasizes harm-reduction principles, collaborative work, culturally responsive client service, and support for individuals experiencing mental illness, substance use disorder, poverty, or other barriers.

Legal fellows research and write on international environmental law and policy, support policy analysis and advocacy, attend meetings and conferences, assist with publications, and collaborate with CIEL staff on projects. Applicants must recently complete or be completing a law graduate degree, commit to at least three months, secure their own funding, and demonstrate strong research, writing, and public-interest-law commitment.

Conduct legal research and writing on international environmental, human rights, investment, and trade law. Assist with policy analysis, advocacy, publications, legal opinions, briefs, amicus submissions, meetings, and conferences while working under the supervision of CIEL attorneys and staff.

Legal interns research and write on domestic and international environmental, human rights, investment, and trade law. They assist with policy analysis, advocacy, publications, legal opinions, briefs, amicus submissions, meetings, and conferences under attorney supervision. The internship requires a ten-week, full-time commitment and may be completed remotely from within the United States.

Provides law students with practical legal support experience in a law firm environment. Responsibilities include managing filing systems, preparing legal documents, maintaining attorney-client files, collaborating with attorneys and business professionals, assisting with administrative tasks, and completing specialized training.

Supports legal operations across contract intake, NDA administration, first-pass contract review, Ironclad and DocuSign management, Deal Desk workflows, Salesforce audits, corporate records, policies, and subpoena responses. Partners with legal leadership, executives, counsel, and internal teams while maintaining accurate contract repositories and confidential records. The role offers mentorship and progressively increasing responsibility in contracts and in-house legal operations.