Legal Intern

TriNetX, LLC. • Cambridge, MA

13h • Hybrid

About The Position

TriNetX connects healthcare organizations and researchers across the globe to provide insights into real patient populations, aiming to offer a clear path to trustworthy answers for developing new therapies, publishing groundbreaking research, or improving health outcomes. They securely maintain identifiable data within over 11,000 clinical sites across 20+ countries, ensuring data security, provenance, and granularity through trusted partnerships with providers. TriNetX enables life sciences, healthcare, and academic institutions to strengthen human health with traceable data, defensible evidence, and trustworthy answers. The Legal Intern will be a part of TriNetX’s Legal Team, working directly with attorneys and business partners across the company's global operations. This role offers hands-on exposure to in-house legal practice at a fast-moving health technology company, covering projects in areas such as contracting, privacy, compliance, and emerging fields like AI governance. It is an ideal opportunity for a law student who wishes to understand how legal work is conducted in a modern in-house function, providing meaningful responsibility, exposure to senior leadership, and real deliverables. The intern is expected to uphold the highest standards of professionalism, integrity, and confidentiality consistent with TriNetX's values.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in an ABA-accredited law school, with at least one completed year of legal studies (rising 2L/3L) by the start of the internship.
• Excitement to learn about a variety of different types of legal work in an in-house environment.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, sound judgment, willingness to ask thoughtful questions, and own assigned projects from start to finish.
• Demonstrated comfort with technology and ability to leverage tools, systems, and workflows to improve efficiency and solve problems.
• Outstanding organizational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritize competing projects, adapt to changing priorities.
• Prior coursework or demonstrated interest in contracts, compliance, data governance, privacy, AI, IP, and/or employment law.
• Must be reliably available during core business hours for meetings and project collaboration.

Nice To Haves

• Experience or interest in working in the real world evidence, technology, healthcare, pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology industry.
• Familiarity with global health and privacy regulations such as HIPAA, CCPA, CPRA, GDPR, LGPD or APPI.

Responsibilities

• Conduct legal research and draft summaries on topics relevant to TriNetX's business, including contracting, global data protection, healthcare regulatory issues, AI governance, IP, and employment law.
• Assist with the review of commercial agreements, including SaaS agreements, network membership agreements, BAAs, DPAs, vendor and collaboration agreements.
• Assist in developing internal legal, privacy and AI resources, policies, and SOPs to support business teams and promote compliance across TriNetX’s global operations, including policy updates, documentation, and process improvement initiatives.
• Attend legal team meetings, cross-functional project meetings, and business team stand-ups to understand how legal advice is delivered in a business context.
• Take on other projects as assigned, with the opportunity to propose and scope a capstone project aligned with the intern's interests.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees