General Legal

Role Description We’re looking for a sharp, legally-fluent Triage Paralegal to serve as the first substantive touchpoint for incoming client matters. Think of it like a triage nurse with clinical training: you’re not just routing matters—you’re assessing them. If you thrive on variety, trust your own read, and have a low tolerance for things falling through the cracks, we’d like to talk. What You’ll Do - Matter Intake & Scoping - Own the intake process for all incoming client matters—review submissions, assess legal nature and complexity, and determine the appropriate path forward. - Ask precise clarifying questions to gather missing information efficiently, without creating unnecessary friction for clients or attorneys. - Categorize and prioritize matters based on urgency, client tier, subject area, and attorney availability. - Paralegal Work & Direct Handling - Handle standard paralegal tasks independently: minor revisions to agreements, entity filings, NDA reviews, contract summaries, template population, and document organization. - Draft correspondence and initial client-facing communications on behalf of the firm, as needed. - Maintain and update standard document templates as directed by attorneys. - Prepare matters for attorney handoff with a clear summary of the issue, relevant documents, and recommended next steps. - Routing & Assignment - Route attorney-required matters to the right person or team, with a clear read on complexity, specialty fit, and workload. - Maintain a real-time view of attorney capacity and help balance load across the team. - Escalate urgent or ambiguous matters quickly and confidently, with enough context for attorneys to act immediately. - Tracking & Follow-Up - Own the matter lifecycle from intake through resolution—maintaining accurate status in the firm’s matter management system at every stage. - Proactively follow up with attorneys and clients on open items, pending deliverables, and upcoming deadlines. - Flag stalled matters, surface blockers early, and drive issues to closure. - Client Communication - Serve as a consistent point of contact for clients on matter status, timelines, and next steps. - Translate legal complexity into clear, plain-language updates—communicating with confidence across founder, executive, and operating-level stakeholders. - Process & Systems - Work closely with attorneys and the engineering team to evaluate, build, and refine intake and routing workflows. - Identify patterns in matter volume, routing, and resolution time—surface insights that help the firm operate more efficiently. - Document and maintain SOPs for triage operations as the firm scales. Qualifications - Paralegal certificate or equivalent experience; bachelor’s degree preferred. - 3–5 years of paralegal, legal operations, or closely related experience in a law firm, legal tech, or in-house legal environment. - Solid legal foundation across commercial contracts and general corporate matters—you can read an agreement and know what matters. - Startup or high-growth company exposure strongly preferred—you’re comfortable with ambiguity and building process where little exists. - Located in Pacific Time or Central Time. Requirements - Excellent organizational instincts: you track everything, miss nothing, and communicate proactively. - Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable managing expectations with both internal teams and external clients. - You know what you can handle independently—and you’re equally clear about when something needs an attorney. - You have a low tolerance for things falling through the cracks—and a system for making sure they don’t. - You communicate with clarity, confidence, and friendliness regardless of who’s in the room. - You thrive on variety and can context-switch quickly without losing track of the details. Bonus Points - Tech-forward mindset—experience with project management tools such as Notion, CRMs, or workflow automation. - You’re curious about technology and excited about working in an environment that uses AI to change how legal services are delivered. - You’re energized by building better processes, not just executing existing ones. Compensation & Benefits - Base Salary: $80,000–$100,000, commensurate with experience. - 401(k) with 5% employer match. - Health & dental insurance fully covered, with partial subsidies for dependents. - Annual team onsites. - Training and development stipend. - Open to additional benefits that meaningfully support productivity and wellbeing.

Role Description The legal industry is broken — lawyers bill by the hour, charge enormous sums, and take forever to respond. This means that a lot of people who need legal advice don't get it. We're using AI to solve this problem. AI takes the first pass at everything our lawyers do, so that the lawyers can focus on human interaction. We're starting with negotiating commercial contracts, and will expand quickly from there to other use cases within legal. We're reimagining what a contract can be in the AI age. We're a veteran team, with one successful exit already, who've been doing deep learning in the legal space since long before ChatGPT. General Legal is seeking a software engineer who has the passion and drive to move fast, learn new things, and drive projects through to completion. This is a unique opportunity to join us at the ground level and play a foundational role in developing a platform that will set new standards for the legal industry. There will be opportunity to grow your role as the company grows, either as an independent contributor or as an engineering manager. Responsibilities - Build out AI-enabled features using an AI-enabled development process - Be proactive and come up with ideas on how to build our products better Qualifications - 1–2 years of software engineering experience - Computer Science degree or equivalent - Eligible to work in the US Requirements - Experience working at a startup (Nice-to-Haves) - Experience in the legal tech space (Nice-to-Haves) Benefits - $150,000 - $190,000 base, calibrated to experience and location - Health, dental, vision; unlimited PTO; home office stipend

Role Description This role is for a Senior Counsel - Employment who has mastered employment law, built real expertise through years of client work, and is ready to put that knowledge to work in a new way. You’ll assist startups and high-growth companies with: - Employment law - Executive compensation - Equity plans You’ll also help build the institutional infrastructure that makes everyone around you sharper by: - Developing templates - Creating precedent libraries - Training attorneys who benefit from what you know If you’re the kind of lawyer who genuinely loves the craft of employment law, keeps up with every regulatory development, and finds real satisfaction in teaching others what you’ve learned, this was built for you. Qualifications - J.D. from an accredited law school - Active bar membership in good standing (relevant specialty certifications a plus) - 5-8 years of experience in employment law - Deep, focused experience in employment law and executive compensation, including equity plan design and administration - Real enthusiasm for teaching and knowledge-sharing - Comfortable working with attorneys across experience levels - Clear, confident communicator Requirements - Proficiency in federal and state employment compliance - Experience with hiring and onboarding - Knowledge of employment agreements - Expertise in employee confidentiality and intellectual property agreements - Understanding of restrictive covenants and workplace investigations - HR counseling experience - Design and adoption of equity incentive plans - Experience with executive and founder employment agreements - Startup employment counseling - Multi-state and remote workforce compliance - Employee handbook and HR policy development - Immigration support Benefits - Remote work flexibility - Planned offices in San Francisco and New York - Salary range: $180,000-240,000 per year

Role Description We’re hiring an emerging companies attorney to run deals for our growing roster of startup clients—from pre-seed through later-stage rounds. This is an execution-focused role. You’ll own matters start to finish, work directly with founders and investors, and use AI-native workflows to move faster and more consistently than you could at a traditional firm. You won’t be managing a team or setting firm strategy. You’ll be doing the work—and doing it well. What You’ll Do - Run venture financings (priced rounds, SAFEs, convertible notes), formations, equity issuances, and related emerging companies matters for both companies and investors, start to finish. - Serve as a primary point of contact for clients, advising founders and management teams on the corporate, employment, IP, and governance issues that come up at each stage of growth. - Negotiate directly with investor counsel and company counsel, drawing on your knowledge of market terms to move deals efficiently. - Use and help refine AI-native workflows and playbooks to handle routine deal work faster—so your time goes toward judgment calls, not mechanical drafting. - Work within established practice standards and contribute to improving them over time. Qualifications - 4+ years of emerging companies / venture capital experience at a reputable firm. - Solid working knowledge of NVCA documents, SAFEs, convertible notes, 409A and 83(b) mechanics, equity plan basics, and corporate governance issues. - Clear, direct communicator. - Admitted to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction and in good standing. Requirements - Backgrounds at Cooley, Orrick, Fenwick, Wilson Sonsini, Gunderson, Goodwin, Latham, or similar are preferred. - You’ve handled enough financings to know what “market” means at each stage and can move through a deal without hand-holding. Benefits - Anticipated base salary of $200,000–$230,000 - Equity - Eligibility for company benefits - Modern tooling. No billable hours. Company Description General Legal is an AI-native law firm built to deliver high-quality corporate legal work faster and more predictably than traditional firms. We combine top-of-market, U.S.-barred attorneys with AI-native workflows to handle drafting, review, and negotiation end to end—without billable hours, bloated process, or junior handoffs. We operate like a startup because we are one. That means modern tooling, outcome-based pricing, remote-friendly work, and a focus on building repeatable processes that scale. We’re starting with commercial and emerging companies work for growing companies—and we’re looking for attorneys who want to do great work in a firm that’s rethinking how legal services get delivered.

Role Description We’re hiring a veteran emerging companies attorney to lead and scale our Emerging Companies practice, running financings and corporate work for our growing roster of startup clients—from pre-seed through later-stage rounds—while setting consistent guidance and process across the practice and helping us reinvent how that work gets done. This is a hybrid practitioner-builder leadership role. You’ll run deals start to finish and hire/manage a small team of emerging companies lawyers, but you won’t be doing it the way you did at your last firm. Imagine having a personal forward-deployed engineer building tools alongside you, to help you set and enforce the standard for how our AI-native workflows reshape every step of a financing, from term sheet through closing binders—and how the practice delivers consistent, repeatable guidance across industries, stages, and the ancillary issues emerging companies face (employment, IP, and related matters). You’ll also help define how the next generation of associates gets trained, mentored, and scaled in a world where routine work is no longer the bottleneck. What you’ll do: - Lead venture financings (priced rounds, SAFEs, convertible notes), formations, equity issuances, secondaries, and related emerging companies matters (including key employment, IP, and commercial issues) for both companies and investors from start to finish. - Serve as primary outside counsel to emerging companies clients, advising founders and management teams on the full lifecycle of decisions a growing company faces, including related employment, IP, and other ancillary issues, and setting consistent practice-wide guidance and standards across industries and stages. - Negotiate directly with investor counsel—and represent funds on the other side of the table as needed—drawing on your understanding of market terms across stages to shape consistent, practical guidance across our practice. - Partner with our engineering team to design, test, and deploy tools that make every part of the deal process meaningfully faster and enable consistent practice-wide guidance. - Define and continuously improve the playbook, training systems, and quality standards for how junior attorneys are trained, mentored, and leveled up—so emerging companies work is delivered consistently and efficiently in an AI-native practice. - Help shape firm and practice strategy, pricing, and service design, including defining consistent guidance and scalable processes across the Emerging Companies practice, as an early senior hire. Qualifications - 7+ years of emerging companies / venture capital experience at a top firm, with substantial company-side and investor-side work. Backgrounds at Cooley, Orrick, Fenwick, Wilson Sonsini, Gunderson, Goodwin, Latham, or similar are preferred. - You’ve taken clients from idea to IPO (whether or not you handled the IPO) and you can handle anything that comes up along the way, including the ancillary employment, IP, and governance issues that arise for emerging companies. - Deep experience representing both emerging companies and investors and funds across stages. - Deep working knowledge of NVCA documents, SAFEs, convertible notes, 409A and 83(b) mechanics, equity plan administration, and the corporate governance and ancillary emerging companies issues (including employment, IP, securities, tax, and commercial matters) that arise at each stage of growth. - Excellent judgment and a clear, direct communication style. - Admitted to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction and in good standing, and able to obtain additional admissions as reasonably necessary for client needs. Requirements - Have spent the last year actually using modern AI tools—not just reading about them—and have opinions about what works, what doesn’t, what’s coming next, and how to operationalize those tools into repeatable workflows that scale across a team. - Are frustrated by how slowly the rest of the legal industry is moving—and want to lead that change by setting practice standards and building scalable, repeatable processes. - Want to build the tools and playbooks, not just use whatever a vendor ships. - Are excited to help reshape what a law firm looks like—by building repeatable, high-quality processes, training the next generation of emerging companies attorneys, and doing the best work of their career in the process. Benefits - Anticipated base salary of $280,000-$300,000 - Equity - Eligibility for company benefits. - Modern tooling. No billable hours. - Meaningful ownership/leadership opportunity. How to Apply Send us your resume along with a few sentences on what you’d build first if you joined, and one example of how you’ve scaled a process or trained teams to deliver consistent, high-quality emerging companies counsel across company-side and investor-side matters. We read every application.

Role Description This role is for specialists: practitioners who have mastered one of the verticals below, built real expertise through years of client work, and are ready to put that knowledge to work in a new way. You'll handle client matters in your field, and you'll also help build the institutional infrastructure that makes everyone around you sharper — reviewing and improving form agreements, developing precedent libraries, and training attorneys who benefit from what you know. If you're the kind of lawyer who genuinely loves the craft of your specialty, keeps up with every regulatory development, and finds real satisfaction in teaching others what you've learned, this was built for you. Qualifications - J.D. from an accredited law school; active bar membership in good standing (relevant specialty certifications a plus) - Deep, focused experience in one of the four verticals above — ideally with a track record that includes top-tier firm work, a leading in-house role, or a regulatory agency background - Encyclopedic knowledge of your field, and the kind of current awareness that comes from genuinely caring about it - Real enthusiasm for teaching and knowledge-sharing — you're not protective of what you know, you want to multiply it - Comfortable working with attorneys across experience levels, from first-year associates to senior partners - Clear, confident communicator who can translate regulatory complexity into practical guidance Requirements - Advise clients on matters within your specialty, providing guidance that reflects current law, real-world practice, and seasoned judgment - Review and negotiate agreements with material regulatory or compliance dimensions - Serve as a trusted subject matter resource for both clients and internal attorneys on questions in your field - Review, revise, and improve form contracts and standard documents within your practice area - Build and maintain precedent libraries that reflect current best practices - Develop training materials and lead sessions for other attorneys who encounter your subject matter in the course of their broader work - Contribute to internal knowledge databases with practical, usable guidance — not just legal citations Benefits - Full-time employees seeking a primary position - Part-time employees looking for meaningful, substantive work at reduced hours - Contract arrangements for specialists who prefer to maintain an independent practice - Compensation is pro-rated for part-time arrangements. All engagement types are eligible for the same quality of work, access, and integration with our team. Salary $200,000 - $300,000 per year