Location: United States (Remote-friendly)
Type: Full-time
Compensation: $100,000–$120,000 base salary, commensurate with experience
About General Legal
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. By using AI to handle the routine parts of legal work, we give our team the space to focus on judgment and the issues that actually matter to clients.
We’re starting with commercial and emerging companies work for growing companies—and we’re looking for a paralegal who wants to do great work in a firm that’s rethinking how legal services get delivered.
The Role
We’re hiring a Paralegal to support our Emerging Companies & Venture Capital (ECVC) practice—working directly with our attorneys on financings, formations, equity administration, and startup-side M&A for a growing roster of startup and investor clients. This is a hands-on execution role: you’ll own the corporate housekeeping and deal-support work that keeps our clients’ cap tables clean and their transactions moving, and you’ll use AI-native workflows to do it faster and more accurately than you could at a traditional firm.
The ideal candidate has real ECVC paralegal experience—venture financings, entity formation, and cap table/equity plan administration—and is comfortable working independently in a lean, fast-moving team with direct attorney and client contact.
What You’ll Do
Startup & Venture Financings
Support venture financings (priced rounds, SAFEs, convertible notes) from term sheet through closing, including drafting ancillary documents, preparing signature pages, and managing signature/closing logistics.
Incorporate and organize new entities—formation documents, bylaws/operating agreements, initial resolutions, and corporate records setup.
Implement and administer equity incentive plans and stock option grants, including board and stockholder approvals.
Maintain and update capitalization tables and equity records using platforms such as Carta or Shareworks; manage related cap table due diligence.
Handle corporate records management and general corporate housekeeping for clients on an ongoing basis (annual filings, franchise tax, registered agent matters, minute books).
Startup-Side M&A Support
Assist with diligence for acquisitions of early- and growth-stage companies, acqui-hires, and asset deals—organizing data rooms, tracking diligence requests, and flagging issues for attorney review.
Draft and manage signing and closing checklists, closing documents, and closing volumes.
Prepare board and stockholder resolutions and minutes in connection with financings, M&A, and other corporate actions.
Client & Attorney Support
Serve as a direct point of contact for founders and clients on routine document requests, closing logistics, and status updates.
Draft and revise standard agreements and templates under attorney direction.
Work directly with attorneys to scope and prioritize matters, and flag issues that need attorney judgment early.
Process & Tooling
Use and help refine AI-native workflows and playbooks to handle routine drafting, document assembly, and diligence work faster.
Identify recurring bottlenecks in deal or intake workflows and help build better process as the firm scales.
Who You Are
Background & Experience
3+ years of corporate/transactional paralegal experience, with substantive ECVC experience: incorporations, venture financings, and cap table/equity plan administration.
Experience with capitalization management platforms such as Carta or Shareworks.
A four-year degree and/or a paralegal certificate from…