Senior Counsel @ VC-Backed Legal Services Startup
About The Position
A venture-backed legal services company is reimagining how legal work gets done — using AI to deliver faster, higher-quality transactional work at a fraction of traditional cost. This is not an incremental efficiency play. It's a fundamentally different model for how legal services are built, priced, and delivered, and we're looking for a Senior Associate / Counsel with an M&A background to help build it. You'll practice transactional law day to day — running deals, working directly with clients, managing matters with real independence — but you'll also be part of defining something bigger: what it looks like when AI is built into the core of how legal work happens, not bolted onto the old model. Early team members have outsized influence over the tools, workflows, and client experience that will define the firm as it scales. The role is based in New York City and works closely with the firm's leadership team, who are shaping the firm's overall approach to AI-enabled legal delivery.
Requirements
- 6-8 years of hands-on transactional experience
- M&A background
- Genuine curiosity about how technology can change legal practice
- Comfortable operating with independence in an early-stage environment
- Want your deal experience to help build something rather than simply execute within an existing structure
Responsibilities
- Practice transactional law day to day
- Run deals
- Work directly with clients
- Manage matters with real independence
- Help define what it looks like when AI is built into the core of how legal work happens
- Have outsized influence over the tools, workflows, and client experience that will define the firm as it scales
- Shape the firm's overall approach to AI-enabled legal delivery
Benefits
- Meaningful equity upside
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
