Updated August 3, 2026

20 open positions

Legal Research Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 20+ legal research jobs at companies offering best places to work and generous PTO—full pay and a better work-life balance. 9 new this week. Hiring companies include Oguz Law, Anthropic, and AVEVA.

Jobs

New This Week

10+

Companies

Updated Daily

Senior Paralegal, Employment & Litigation

Aledade

RemoteUSA

63 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Paralegal

2mo

Oguz Law

RemoteUSA

71 · GreatHalf day fridays

Business Immigration Paralegal

2mo

Oguz Law

RemoteTurkey

71 · GreatHalf day fridays

Paralegal, Litigation

1mo

Coinbase

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$105k – $124k

Sr Counsel - Policy & Regulatory

26d

HopSkipDrive

RemoteUSA

60 · Good4 day week during Summer

Senior Paralegal

1mo

SoFi

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Litigation and E-Discovery Counsel

1mo

Samsara

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$119k – $160k

Intern, Corporate Land

ConocoPhillips

HybridBartlesville, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Arbitration Internship - January 2027

Pinsent Masons

HybridParis, France

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Paralegal - Trade Compliance

AVEVA

HybridLondon, UK

66 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Legal Intern – Business and Healthcare Law

Sanofi

HybridGentilly, France

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Paralegal

Trustpilot

HybridNew York, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$93k – $103k

Working Student Corporate Law Specialist

Celonis

HybridMunich, Germany

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Right of Way Agent

Las Vegas Valley Water District

OnsiteLas Vegas, USA

58 · GoodCompressed week$98k – $108k

Senior Tax Attorney

Experian

HybridSão Paulo, Brazil

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Legal Intern

OnsiteChicago, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Associate Professor of Law - Civil Procedure, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Contracts among others

1mo

Syracuse University

OnsiteSyracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week$125k – $145k

Counsel - Environmental & Regulatory

1mo

Phillips 66

Hybrid

60 · Good9 day fortnight$176k – $215k

Associate Commercial Counsel

24d

Upgrade

HybridSan Francisco, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$130k – $150k

IP Counsel, Copyright

2mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco +3 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$320k – $385k

Every role is a genuine reduced-hours position, manually curated and refreshed daily. How we curate

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Legal Research on this page include Oguz Law, Anthropic, and AVEVA. Legal Research roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Legal Research is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Legal Research roles span the full seniority range — we list 20 open roles requiring Legal Research across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Legal Research hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Legal Research roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Legal Research candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Legal Research on current listings.