Paralegal - Emerging Companies & Venture Capital

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 an ABA-approved program.
• Experience in a law firm, legal tech, or in-house legal environment; startup or high-growth company exposure strongly preferred.
• Solid working knowledge of NVCA-style financing documents, SAFEs, and convertible notes; exposure to startup-side M&A (asset deals, acqui-hires, company sales) is a plus.
• Substantial experience with Excel spreadsheets and exemplary written communication and organizational skills.

How You Work

• You can run the mechanics of a financing or closing without hand-holding, and you know when something needs attorney judgment instead.
• You’re comfortable multi-tasking across several active matters in a deadline-driven environment.
• You’re genuinely curious about AI tools and excited to work somewhere that uses them to change how legal services get delivered—not just tolerate the idea.
• You default to fixing the problem rather than just flagging it.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base Salary: $100,000–$120,000, 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.
• Modern tooling. No billable hours.

How to Apply

Send us your resume along with a few sentences on the kind of ECVC paralegal work you’ve been doing lately and one example of a financing or transaction you helped run largely on your own. We read every application.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be legally authorized to work in the United States and are required to have U.S. residency at the time of application.