Top Legal Jobs in Washington, DC

Reviews and evaluates legal, commercial, compliance, and contract documents for accuracy, completeness, clarity, risks, and adherence to standards. Provides structured, objective feedback and recommendations using professional judgment and established guidelines. Requires independent remote work, strong analytical and communication skills, attention to detail, and familiarity with commercial agreements, compliance materials, and document review.

Review and evaluate legal, grant, ESG, policy, and compliance documents for accuracy, quality, completeness, clarity, and relevance. Provide structured feedback, identify errors and compliance concerns, compare outputs against standards, and document recommendations. Work independently on flexible, fully remote evaluation projects using professional judgment and established guidelines.

Assist attorneys with global trademark and copyright management, filing, disputes, and maintaining client databases and communications.

Provide commercial tech-transaction legal support: draft, structure, and negotiate complex agreements with OEMs and AV partners; advise leadership; collaborate cross-functionally; support IP, product, and compliance; build playbooks, forms, and legal operations to scale a small, fast-growing in-house legal team.

Provides broad in-house legal support across employment matters, litigation, disputes, commercial procurement, and SaaS, partnership, licensing, and services contracts. Advises HR and cross-functional teams, manages outside counsel and litigation strategy, mitigates legal risks, supports negotiations, and improves legal processes, policies, and templates. Requires strong legal judgment, communication, organization, and prioritization skills.

Serve as legal partner for subcontracts and supply chain: draft, review, and negotiate high-volume supplier agreements; ensure FAR/DFARS/OTA flowdowns and export control compliance; build playbooks, templates, and SOPs; support programs, trade compliance, dispute resolution, and leadership with pragmatic risk analysis.

Supports the Legal Department by drafting, reviewing, revising, and coordinating commercial contracts and related legal documents. Performs first-level contract review, identifies non-standard provisions, researches contractual and regulatory issues, prepares redlines and summaries, and coordinates with attorneys and business stakeholders. Maintains contract records, workflows, renewals, templates, and clause libraries in contract management systems while responding to internal process questions and supporting efficiency initiatives.

The Vice President, Legal will lead healthcare regulatory and commercial legal matters for an AI-enabled diagnostic imaging company. Responsibilities include negotiating healthcare, technology, data use, vendor, and strategic partnership agreements; advising on Anti-Kickback, Stark Law, HIPAA, FDA, physician arrangement, and AI-related issues; supporting corporate, employment, compliance, and governance matters; developing legal processes and playbooks; and managing outside counsel.

Serve as DuckDuckGo's senior legal leader and strategic advisor, overseeing global privacy, regulatory and competition matters, managing the legal team, directing outside counsel, supporting corporate governance, M&A and financing, and partnering with Product, Engineering, and Policy on AI, data practices, and new product launches.

Provide day-to-day corporate and commercial legal support, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts. Manage cross-border matters involving the US, UK, and EU; independently handle routine legal issues; build legal processes; and coordinate external counsel for complex or jurisdiction-specific matters. Provide practical, commercially minded advice to the business.

Provide commercial legal support across corporate transactions and the full lifecycle of data center development projects, draft and negotiate commercial agreements, advise on regulatory matters, manage external counsel, and collaborate with global cross-functional teams to mitigate legal risk and support business objectives.

Provides legal guidance on contracts, nonprofit compliance, risk management, fiscal sponsorships, charitable giving, and governance. Maintains contract and policy systems, conducts legal research, updates templates, supports audits, and advises operations, program, and development teams. Requires a Washington, DC bar admission and collaboration with the General Counsel to address legal and regulatory matters affecting community foundations.

Legal fellows monitor media-law developments, support First Amendment and freedom-of-information litigation, prepare legal memoranda, motions, discovery, briefs, and oral-argument materials, respond to journalist inquiries, contribute to amicus and policy work, and write website and publication content.

The Legal Assistant supports attorneys by managing office operations, assisting with trust and estate administration, and handling various administrative tasks.

Provides administrative, secretarial, document processing, and case support to an intellectual property trademark and copyright practice group. Responsibilities include court filings, e-filing, legal document preparation, proofreading, workflow coordination, calendar and travel management, meeting coordination, billing and time-entry support, new business intake, file maintenance, legal research, and client communication. Requires prior law firm experience, at least seven years of administrative support experience, and proficiency with Microsoft Office and PDF software.

Provide business-oriented legal guidance on U.S. broker-dealer regulation, digital assets, payments, privacy, product launches, marketing, onboarding, regulatory engagement, agreements, policies, and disputes. Monitor SEC, FINRA, CFTC, FinCEN, and OFAC developments; conduct legal research; advise cross-functional teams; and manage litigation, arbitration, outside counsel, claims, and discovery.

Leads Hazel Health’s in-house legal and enterprise compliance functions. Advises on healthcare regulation, telehealth, corporate governance, contracts, privacy, security, employment, risk, and investigations. Builds legal operating systems, templates, playbooks, compliance controls, and matter-management processes while reducing outside-counsel spend. Manages specialized counsel for complex matters and provides candid guidance to executives and the Board.

Review and edit deposition transcripts for grammar, formatting, legal accuracy, consistency, confidentiality, and compliance with company and industry standards. Communicate effectively with internal teams, manage multiple assignments independently, and deliver polished transcripts reliably and on time as a remote 1099 contractor. Familiarity with AI transcription platforms is beneficial, and training is provided on proprietary software.

The Legislative/Legal Research Lead will coordinate research operations, engage with congressional initiatives, analyze challenges, and support operational improvements for a federal client.

The role involves leading legislative and legal research operations, managing staff, supporting congressional initiatives, and enhancing operational efficiency and compliance.

Part-time legal trainees will conduct legal research and analysis on civil-military relations, military law, and democratic resilience; support writing, editing, and legislative engagement; and provide program support. Hybrid role for law students or holders of law degrees, June–September, 20–30 hours/week.

Lead and build a global compliance function supporting U.S., EMEA, and APAC; manage a team of ~6, drive IPO and public-company readiness, develop policies, controls, metrics and reporting, oversee investigations and remediation, partner with cross-functional leaders to mitigate regulatory risk and scale compliance technology and processes for global growth.

Perform legal transcription remotely under a federal contract. Responsibilities require accurately transcribing audio while maintaining excellent grammar, punctuation, listening, and comprehension standards. Contractors must complete at least 200 audio minutes weekly, submit timely invoices, and maintain reliable equipment and internet access. The role requires U.S. citizenship, identity documentation, two years of transcription experience, a minimum typing speed of 55 words per minute, and willingness to undergo a Public Trust background investigation.

Provide administrative support to the Corporate Legal Affairs division and General Counsel, including reviewing and summarizing legal documents, preparing legal instruments and correspondence, maintaining legacy records, assisting with contract addenda and database management, processing invoices and mail, and preparing lobbyist registration and disclosure forms.

Serve as Freshpaint’s first in-house legal leader, advising the CEO and cross-functional teams on commercial contracting, privacy, data protection, compliance, employment, corporate governance, financing, equity, and intellectual property. Build scalable legal templates, playbooks, workflows, and risk-management processes; negotiate customer, vendor, partner, and technology agreements; embed privacy-by-design practices; and manage outside counsel and legal spend.