Top Legal Jobs in Washington, DC

Own the full contract lifecycle from intake through execution, including drafting, reviewing, redlining, negotiating, and tracking commercial agreements. Partner with Sales, Finance, Insurance, and other stakeholders to resolve terms, manage risk, and accelerate deal closure. Identify and escalate legal issues, support counterparties, and improve contracting workflows and processes. The role also includes security awareness compliance and escalation of security risks.

Supports corporate governance, Board and committee administration, entity maintenance, subsidiary records, Section 16 and SEC filings, D&O questionnaires, compliance processes, audits, corporate insurance, and equity matters. Maintains Diligent and entity-management records, coordinates with outside counsel and service providers, handles confidential information, supports legal projects, and provides administrative assistance to the Legal department.

Lead all legal functions, including product, privacy, commercial, corporate, employment, intellectual property, regulatory, and litigation matters. Advise founders and leadership, shape policy for children’s technology and AI, manage regulators and outside counsel, accelerate contracting, build legal playbooks, lead a small in-house team, apply AI to legal workflows, and oversee M&A, financings, and board matters.

Leads Veeam’s Americas Commercial Legal team while negotiating complex software, SaaS, BaaS, professional services, and channel agreements. Advises Sales and business stakeholders on legal, privacy, regulatory, and commercial risks; serves as escalation point for high-risk matters; and manages, coaches, and develops four to five lawyers. The role also drives contracting consistency, training, process improvement, and collaboration across the global Commercial Legal organization.

Supports U.S. Attorneys in asset forfeiture cases by researching legal authorities, reviewing case materials, interviewing witnesses, preparing trial exhibits and testimony summaries, verifying citations, and drafting case-related memoranda and correspondence. The role also identifies case deficiencies, supports pretrial activities, and performs legal research using litigation support and office software.

Supports Assistant U.S. Attorneys in asset forfeiture cases by researching legal authorities, reviewing case materials, interviewing witnesses, preparing trial exhibits, verifying citations, summarizing testimony, and drafting case-related documents. The role requires paralegal knowledge, legal research skills, strong communication, computer application proficiency, U.S. citizenship, and completion of a seven- or ten-year background investigation.

Provides legal counsel for complex technology sales transactions across the Americas, including software, cloud, AI/ML, licensing, privacy, IP, channel sales, and strategic alliances. Drafts and negotiates commercial agreements, advises on AI regulation and data rights, supports revenue recognition, and counsels senior Sales and Finance leaders. Ensures compliance with privacy, security, antitrust, export, and regulatory requirements while mentoring teammates and resolving complex business risks.

Advise Megaport’s leadership on complex, high-value technology transactions and strategic initiatives. Lead negotiations involving cloud, networking, data centers, infrastructure, compute, software, suppliers, customers, and strategic partners. Provide guidance on technology, privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, regulatory, and commercial risks. Partner with executives, support global legal teams, improve contracting processes, and turn ambiguous, commercially sensitive matters into practical paths to execution.

Advise Applied Intuition’s U.S. and international defense business on government contracts, procurement laws, data rights, IP, export controls, CUI, compliance, and international bids. Negotiate prime contracts, subcontracts, supplier agreements, software licenses, and teaming agreements. Support proposals, legal operations, investigations, policy development, training, and scalable compliance programs while partnering with product, engineering, finance, sales, and marketing teams.

Conduct policy and legal research, support client outreach and factual investigations, draft legal documents, and provide administrative assistance while working with civil rights attorneys. Interns contribute to projects across areas including voting rights, criminal justice, digital justice, educational opportunities, economic justice, housing, and public policy. The role requires current law-degree enrollment, civil rights commitment, collaboration, confidentiality, legal writing, and Microsoft Office proficiency.

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.

Provides freelance English-to-Finnish legal translation and editing for judiciary-related content. Responsibilities include accurately translating legal, judicial, and technical terminology, editing written materials, using computer-assisted translation tools, meeting deadlines, and accepting on-demand assignments of approximately 10–15 hours weekly. Work is remote, with general weekday availability during Eastern Time business hours and potential security clearance processing.

Freelance remote translator/editor providing English-to-Japanese legal translation and editing for judiciary-related content. Responsibilities include accurately applying U.S. legal, judicial, and technical terminology, using computer-assisted translation tools, meeting deadlines, organizing on-demand assignments, and supporting approximately 10–15 hours of work weekly during Eastern Time business hours. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and willing to complete security clearance processing, including fingerprinting.

Provides freelance English-to-Chinese legal translation and editing for judicial and legal documentation. Requires native-level Chinese and English writing, knowledge of U.S. legal and technical terminology, CAT tool experience, strong accuracy, organization, and deadline management. Assignments are remote, ongoing, and on demand for approximately 10–15 hours per week. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and willing to undergo security clearance processing and fingerprinting.

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.

Manage the full lifecycle of U.S. federal, state, and local government contracts, including negotiation, compliance, proposals, certifications, records, renewals, and deliverables. Develop scalable contracting processes and playbooks, monitor regulatory developments, and advise internal teams on legal and regulatory risks. Partner with Legal, Finance, Security, Capture, Proposals, and Product teams to align contract terms with technical capabilities, pricing, and compliance frameworks.

Provides specialized commercial legal advice, identifies and mitigates legal risks, advises on laws and regulations, manages legal matters, partners with business stakeholders, coordinates with external counsel, and escalates complex issues to senior legal leadership. The role supports business strategy and global operations through regulatory research, compliance guidance, and strategic recommendations.

Directs legal claims recovery services involving bankruptcy preference and avoidance actions under Sections 547, 550, and 502. Oversees demand letters, complaints, defense analyses, settlements, mediations, litigation support, case tracking, client and counsel communications, and administrative staff. Personally manages a high-volume caseload, evaluates transaction data and defenses, coordinates portfolio activities, and ensures timely filings, service, settlements, and fund recovery. Requires substantial corporate bankruptcy or restructuring experience and strong Excel proficiency.

Provides English-to-Korean legal translation and/or editing for judicial and legal materials on a remote, freelance basis. The role requires accurate legal terminology, native-level writing in both languages, knowledge of U.S. legal and judicial terminology, CAT tool experience, strong organization, and deadline management. Assignments are ongoing and on demand, totaling approximately 10 to 15 hours per week, with general weekday availability during Eastern Time business hours.

Complete specialized legal workflows, analyze complex legal subject matter, draft accurate responses, structure legal arguments, document reasoning, and maintain a flexible weekly commitment using software-based time tracking. The engagement is open to attorneys, legal scholars, paralegals, consultants, and compliance experts with specialized legal experience and strong legal documentation skills.

Leads Legal and Compliance operations, including process improvement, legal technology, contract lifecycle management, outside counsel and vendor oversight, budgeting, reporting, insurance administration, risk tracking, and cross-functional projects. The role develops scalable workflows, dashboards, procedures, and knowledge systems while supporting compliance and efficient legal service delivery in a biopharmaceutical environment.

Own Kovo’s entire legal and compliance function as its first legal hire. Lead regulatory and product work for new consumer financial products, including licensing, bank partnerships, policies, disclosures, marketing review, privacy, BSA/AML/KYC, fraud, litigation, audits, and regulator relationships. Build scalable, AI-enabled workflows that automate recurring legal operations while maintaining rigorous quality. Partner closely with founders, product, engineering, marketing, banks, and regulators in a fully remote, high-intensity fintech environment.

Supports Docker’s Legal team with contract intake, routing, playbook-based review, approvals, signature coordination, outside counsel billing, legal technology administration, AI workflow testing, reporting, documentation, training, and process improvement. The role partners cross-functionally with Sales, Deal Desk, Finance, Product, and Engineering while maintaining legal systems, dashboards, standard operating procedures, and knowledge resources.

Serve as Spellbook’s in-house transactional legal expert and product strategist. Support sales calls, demos, RFPs, training, webinars, CLE sessions, and thought leadership. Translate legal workflows into product requirements, participate in feature discovery and testing, and collaborate with product, engineering, sales, and customers to improve AI-powered contract workflows.

Leads GreenLight’s legal and compliance function, focusing on workforce compliance, worker classification, employment law, commercial contracts, international legal coordination, product compliance, privacy, fraud prevention, and responsible AI. Advises leadership, manages outside counsel, supports escalations and investigations, translates regulations into scalable processes and product controls, and strengthens contracting, partner oversight, and compliance operations.