Updated July 13, 2026

21 open positions

Legal writing Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 21+ legal writing jobs at companies offering best places to work and unlimited PTO—full pay and a better work-life balance. 5 new this week. Hiring companies include Justworks, Anthropic, and Arista Networks.

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New This Week

10+

Companies

Updated Daily

Counsel, Litigation

Phillips 66

RemoteUSA

60 · Good9 day fortnight$176k - $215k

Commercial Counsel Public Sector

Elastic

RemoteUK

62 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Legal Counsel

Arista Networks

RemoteIreland

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Corporate Counsel

Canva

RemoteUSA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Counsel, Product & Regulatory - Payments & AML

14d

Mercury

RemoteCanada or USA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Litigation Paralegal

14d

Coinbase

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$125k - $147k

Commercial Counsel

2mo

Wpromote

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$130k - $150k

Counsel II, Commercial

1mo

Affirm

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$160k - $230k

Commercial Counsel

1mo

Apollo.io

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

IP Lawyer / Business Law

12d

Lunii

HybridParis, France

79 · Great4 day week100% pay

Privacy & Commercial Counsel

Postman

HybridSan Francisco, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$75k - $95k

Litigation Counsel

2mo

Discord

HybridSan Francisco, USA

67 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$248k - $279k

Legal Counsel - Platform Liability

2mo

Spotify

OnsiteLondon, UK

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Counsel, Business Services

14d

Hometap

HybridBoston, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Regulatory Attorney

2mo

Polymarket

OnsiteNew York, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Employment Counsel, International Lifecycle

28d

Justworks

HybridToronto, Canada

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Employment Counsel, International Lifecycle

28d

Justworks

HybridMexico City, Mexico

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Employment Counsel, International Lifecycle

28d

Justworks

HybridLondon, UK

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Legal Counsel

1mo

Samsara

HybridLondon, UK

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Commercial Counsel (EMEA)

1mo

Anthropic

HybridDublin, Ireland

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave€165k - €210k

Commercial Counsel (EMEA)

1mo

Anthropic

HybridLondon, UK

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave£125k - £165k

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Legal Writing on this page include Justworks, Anthropic, and Arista Networks. Legal Writing 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 Writing is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Legal Writing roles span the full seniority range — we list 22 open roles requiring Legal Writing 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 Writing 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 Writing 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 Writing 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 Writing on current listings.