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Legal Research Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 41+ legal research jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and half-day Fridays—for a better work-life balance. 5 new this week. Hiring companies include Pinsent Masons, Sanofi, and Oguz Law.

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9-day fortnights 5
half-day Fridays 4
generous PTO 6
unlimited PTO 9
best places to work 15

Updated September 12, 2026

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Legal & Compliance Intern

NEW

Greenlight · Remote · USA

58 · GoodUnlimited PTOPro · early access

Business Immigration Paralegal

3mo

Oguz Law · Remote · Turkey

70 · GreatHalf Day Fridays

Senior Legal Counsel (USA)

3mo

Storyblok · Remote · USA

68 · GoodFlexible Hours$103k – $141k

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Senior Paralegal, Employment & Litigation

1mo

Aledade · Remote · USA

64 · GoodGenerous PTO

Litigation Paralegal

2mo

Coinbase · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$105k – $124k

Litigation and E-Discovery Counsel

2mo

Samsara · Remote · USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$119k – $180k

Paralegal

24d

Venus Aerospace · Remote · USA

54 · DecentUnlimited PTO

Attorney, Fintech Compliance & Data Privacy

SavvyMoney · Hybrid · Dublin, CA, USA

70 · GreatHalf Day Fridays$200k – $225k

Senior Specialist (Paralegal) Animal Health

NEW

Merck · Hybrid · Rahway, NJ or Lower Gwynedd Township, PA

59 · GoodGenerous PTO$96k – $151k

6-month internship in environmental law

Sanofi · Hybrid · Gentilly, France

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

Sr. Legal Counsel

Workato · Hybrid · Palo Alto, CA, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$180k – $240k

Counsel / Senior Counsel

Marathon Petroleum · Onsite · Findlay, OH +3 more

58 · Good9 Day Fortnight$141k – $244k

Commercial Paralegal

Eficode UK · Hybrid · Southampton, England, UK

58 · GoodBest Place to Work£40k – £45k

Experienced Talent Immigration Paralegal

18d

Oguz Law · Hybrid · Walnut Creek, USA

70 · GreatHalf Day Fridays

Paralegal

3mo

Oguz Law · Hybrid · Walnut Creek, USA

70 · GreatHalf Day Fridays

Research Counsel

Anthropic · Hybrid · San Francisco, CA, USA

55 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave$265k – $335k

Corporate Counsel, Risk

10d

Palmetto · Onsite · Charlotte, NC, USA

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Paralegal

10d

Pattern · Hybrid · Lehi, UT, USA

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO

2027 - Summer Internship

12d

Pinsent Masons · Onsite · Singapore, Singapore

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Deputy City Attorney-Criminal Prosecution Division

19d

City of Santa Monica · Hybrid · Santa Monica, CA, USA

60 · Good9 Day Fortnight

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Employers hiring for Legal Research on this page include Pinsent Masons, Sanofi, and Oguz Law. 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 41 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.

Legal Research Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 41+ legal research jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and half-day Fridays—for a better work-life balance. 5 new this week. Hiring companies include Pinsent Masons, Sanofi, and Oguz Law.

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