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Legal Research Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 50+ legal research jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and half-day Fridays—for a better work-life balance. 10 new this week. Hiring companies include Oguz Law, Pinsent Masons, and iCapital.

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9-day fortnights 9
half-day Fridays 6
generous PTO 7
unlimited PTO 11
best places to work 9

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Senior Staff Attorney

Local Progress · Remote · USA

83 · Great4 Day Work Week

Family Immigration Paralegal

Oguz Law · Remote · Turkey

70 · GreatHalf Day Fridays

Senior Corporate Counsel

California Dental Association · Remote · Sacramento, CA, USA

61 · GoodGenerous PTO$165k – $221k

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Paralegal

4mo

Oguz Law · Remote · USA

70 · GreatHalf Day Fridays

Business Immigration Paralegal

4mo

Oguz Law · Remote · Turkey

70 · GreatHalf Day Fridays

Legal Counsel

14d

Zapier · Remote · USA or Canada

63 · GoodUnlimited PTO$158k – $238k

Litigation Paralegal

3mo

Coinbase · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$105k – $124k

Legal & Compliance Intern

21d

Greenlight · Remote · USA

58 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Litigation and E-Discovery Counsel

3mo

Samsara · Remote · USA

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

Paralegal

1mo

Venus Aerospace · Remote · USA

54 · DecentUnlimited PTO

Staff Attorney, Affirmative Unit

Canal Alliance · Hybrid · San Rafael, CA, USA

79 · Great4 Day Work Week$80k – $85k

Immigration Staff Attorney

Inland Counties Legal Services · Hybrid · Riverside, CA, USA

78 · Great4 Day Work Week$78k – $115k

Foreclosure Prevention Fellow

Inland Counties Legal Services · Hybrid · Riverside, CA, USA

78 · Great4 Day Work Week$78k – $115k

CITY ATTORNEY

City of Stockton · Onsite · Stockton, CA, USA

60 · Good9 Day Fortnight$339k

Internship Programme

Pinsent Masons · Onsite · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Corporate Counsel

California Dental Association · Hybrid · Sacramento, CA, USA

61 · GoodGenerous PTO$124k – $171k

Staff Attorney - Consumer Rights & Economic Justice

Public Counsel · Hybrid · Los Angeles, CA, USA

63 · GoodGenerous PTO$85k – $124k

Staff Attorney - Homelessness Prevention (Affirmative Litigation)

Public Counsel · Hybrid · Los Angeles, CA, USA

63 · GoodGenerous PTO$80k – $91k

Staff Attorney - Immigrants' Rights (Anti-Detention Team)

Public Counsel · Hybrid · Los Angeles, CA, USA

63 · GoodGenerous PTO$78k – $103k

Associate Attorney

Center for Food Safety · Hybrid · Portland, OR or San Francisco, CA

58 · GoodFlex Fridays$78k – $98k

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Employers hiring for Legal Research on this page include Oguz Law, Pinsent Masons, and iCapital. 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 51 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.

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