Top Legal Jobs in Washington, DC

Develop and refine AI-powered legal and contract workflows in collaboration with product, engineering, service delivery, and clients. Create training and enablement materials, monitor legal AI and contract automation markets, evaluate workflow quality, experiment with prompts and prototypes, and advise stakeholders on practical AI applications. The role requires transactional legal experience, hands-on use of legal AI tools, strong communication, and hybrid work in the New York City office three days per week.

Paid summer legal internship supporting public interest litigation and regulatory advocacy. Responsibilities include legal research, drafting briefs, motions, comments, and other filings; assisting with litigation strategy, hearings, and case screening; and participating in client and strategic discussions. The role is full-time from May 27 through July 30, 2027, with interns working in the Washington, DC office an average of two to three days weekly.

Legal summer interns work across Cisco’s legal practice groups, supporting internal clients on varied legal issues related to networking, security, and collaboration products. Responsibilities include legal research, project work, developing an end-of-summer presentation for senior leadership, and participating in mentoring, networking, and skills training. Successful completion may lead to future internships and a post-graduation legal rotation program.

Cisco’s Legal Experience Acceleration Program is an 11-week in-house summer internship for law students. Interns support multiple legal practice groups, research legal issues, assist internal clients, contribute to projects supporting Cisco products and services, receive mentorship and training, and present an end-of-summer project to senior legal leadership. Successful completion leads to a two-year post-graduation legal rotation program.

Develops, licenses, and manages analytical tax, accounting, and legal content for professional customers. Responsibilities include researching tax law, legislation, regulations, and case law; writing and editing practical guidance; using generative AI to improve content workflows; recruiting authors and negotiating licensing agreements; and collaborating with editorial, product, technical, sales, and marketing teams. Requires a JD, CPA designation, significant accounting experience, and at least two years each of tax legal and accounting experience.

Provides legal and policy counsel on government affairs, builds relationships with state attorneys general and federal officials, coordinates litigation and multistate amicus opportunities, monitors legal developments, represents ADF at coalition events, and manages special projects involving legal analysis and political awareness.

Support attorneys with legal research, document preparation (briefs, memos, reports), case management, and regulatory monitoring. Analyze environmental law issues, maintain organized case files, collaborate on case strategies, and assist in preparing materials for client matters.

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.

Own the commercial contracting lifecycle across intake, drafting, negotiation, approvals, execution, and repository management. Administer and scale Ironclad workflows, templates, playbooks, permissions, reporting, migrations, and automation. Independently negotiate NDAs, prepare agreement markups, manage SLAs, coordinate cross-functional approvals, maintain contract data quality, and improve processes through workflow automation and AI tools.

Develop AI prompts, playbooks, agents, automations, and legal workflows for contracting, counseling, and governance. Partner with in-house legal teams to understand needs, implement practical solutions, deliver customer and internal training, support adoption, collaborate with Customer Success, and provide product feedback. Serve as a legal subject matter expert during sales demonstrations while using the platform internally to improve guidance and customer outcomes.

Support Fetch’s privacy and data governance program under Corporate Counsel, Privacy. Responsibilities include documenting data discovery exercises, mapping data flows, maintaining data inventories, reviewing legal and technical documentation, and communicating project updates. The three-month remote internship begins in January 2027 and requires 12–15 hours per week. The intern will gain exposure to privacy compliance, data governance, and in-house legal operations at a consumer technology company.

Provides legal and regulatory guidance on digital assets, tokenized securities, and SEC-regulated entities. Supports securities-law compliance, product launches, transactions, regulatory examinations, audits, policies, and external counsel management. Drafts and negotiates commercial agreements while monitoring developments affecting digital assets and securities markets.

Supports attorneys with legal and administrative tasks, including scheduling hearings and deadlines, organizing case files and evidence, maintaining pleadings and discovery indexes, drafting and proofreading legal documents, researching laws and regulations, managing client billing, coordinating with clients and witnesses, and maintaining paper and electronic filing systems.

Own the operational backbone of the Legal function, including intake, matter tracking, contract lifecycle management, corporate records, governance calendars, compliance administration, policy management, legal playbooks, outside-counsel coordination, and cross-functional legal projects. The role also manages legal technology, employee training, reporting, and support for privacy, security, AI governance, accessibility, SOC 2, and CMMC initiatives.

Leads complex data center, infrastructure, procurement, lease, colocation, facilities, and operations agreements for a global cloud platform. Negotiates transactions, advises cross-functional teams on risk and performance, supports international expansion, and develops scalable legal templates, playbooks, and approval frameworks. Requires substantial in-house infrastructure transaction experience, a J.D., and active U.S. bar admission.

Provides enterprise legal leadership and oversees compliance strategy, regulatory risk, governance, audit readiness, investigations, contracting, and executive reporting for a multi-state healthcare organization. Advises senior leadership and the board, translates healthcare regulations into operational guidance, manages outside counsel, and scales the legal and compliance function.

Provides legal support for corporate and commercial matters, including contract drafting, negotiation, confidentiality agreements, regulatory compliance, corporate policies, and document management. The role advises on business practices, mitigates legal risk, develops legal training materials, and collaborates with business teams in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.

Serves as primary legal partner to global functions, advising on corporate, commercial, fundraising, nonprofit, employment, privacy, and operational matters. Structures and negotiates partnerships, funding arrangements, technology agreements, and data-sharing agreements. Leads legal strategy for data partnerships, MNO data, remote enablement, and cross-country initiatives. Builds legal templates and playbooks, supports charitable giving and public affairs compliance, coordinates external counsel, and develops practical approaches to novel regulatory issues.

Lead export and sanctions legal counsel for Medtronic’s global trade compliance program. Advise on EAR, OFAC sanctions, export controls, restricted-party screening, anti-boycott requirements, licensing, audits, investigations, litigation, M&A due diligence, and voluntary disclosures. Develop compliance policies, interpret regulatory changes, mitigate cross-business risks, support training, and partner with legal, supply chain, compliance, and business teams globally.

Legal interns support environmental and public interest litigation through legal research, factual investigation, written memoranda, public records requests, document review, discovery, and court attendance. They research potential litigation, collaborate with Sierra Club attorneys, and participate in legal team meetings. Candidates must be current JD students with exceptional writing, research, analytical, interpersonal, organizational, and multitasking skills, plus an interest in environmental or public interest law.

Provides senior legal counsel on AI, product development, marketing, legal technology, technology transactions, and emerging regulations. Advises Product, Engineering, Marketing, Partner, Customer Success, and Strategy teams; drafts policies and agreement terms; negotiates vendor, open-source, collaboration, and customer agreements; supports product launches and go-to-market strategies; and translates complex AI laws into practical business guidance.

Provides legal advice, negotiates contracts, prepares legal documents, and addresses employment law and compliance matters. Collaborates with internal teams, external partners, and customers to ensure legal compliance and deliver strategic guidance in a fast-paced remote environment.

Advise eBay Payments Product and Engineering teams on legal and regulatory issues throughout the product lifecycle. Counsel on payment processing, acquiring, card networks, payouts, wallets, funds flows, consumer protection, money transmission, financial crime, sanctions, and related requirements. Develop practical solutions, launch guidance, review frameworks, and playbooks while partnering with Risk, Compliance, Operations, Privacy, and global Legal teams.

Provides administrative and legal support for patent prosecution matters. Responsibilities include generating patent portfolio reports, preparing and filing USPTO documents, managing assignments and declarations, organizing file histories, monitoring patent deadlines, drafting and proofreading correspondence and filings, and coordinating with attorneys, patent agents, paralegals, inventors, clients, and vendors. The role requires strong organization, calendaring, database, document-management, and communication skills, along with 2–3 years of patent prosecution experience.

Leads legal operations transformation and enablement, including legal technology architecture, AI-enabled workflows, contract lifecycle management, process optimization, metrics, vendor management, change management, and budgeting. Builds scalable contracting infrastructure, improves self-service and legal intake, reduces outside counsel reliance, partners with IT and enterprise teams on technology delivery, and manages legal operations staff while supporting commercial and procurement contracting.