Part-Time Legal & Administrative Assistant
Location: Fully Remote
Engagement: Part-time
About HarvardLaw74
HarvardLaw74 is a boutique New York law firm advising startups, founders, and investors on company formation, venture financings, corporate governance, and regulatory matters. Our clients range from pre-seed companies raising their first capital to established operators expanding into the US market, and our work frequently involves cross-border questions.
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly organized law student based in Europe with a common-law background to provide part-time legal and administrative support.
The ideal candidate will have a strong interest in, and preferably prior experience with, venture capital, corporate law, startups, regulatory compliance, and cross-border legal matters. Previous paralegal or comparable legal support experience is highly desirable.
This role requires someone who is dependable, detail-oriented, comfortable managing multiple administrative and legal-support tasks, and able to communicate professionally with clients and other external stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Responsibilities may include:
- Providing day-to-day legal and administrative support, including document management, correspondence, scheduling, meeting preparation, and follow-up.
- Conducting preliminary legal, corporate, and regulatory research across relevant jurisdictions, mainly in the US.
- Supporting matters relating to venture capital transactions, startups, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, and cross-border business activities.
- Assisting with the preparation, organization, and review of corporate and transactional documentation, including agreements, term sheets, corporate records, and due-diligence materials.
- Supporting due-diligence processes and maintaining organized transaction and corporate documentation.
- Tracking regulatory, compliance, filing, and other administrative requirements.
- Preparing concise research notes, summaries, briefing materials, presentations, and spreadsheets.
- Assisting with client communications, meeting preparation, and follow-up under appropriate supervision.
- Coordinating documentation and information among lawyers, clients, founders, investors, and other stakeholders.
- Managing ad hoc legal, research, operational, and administrative projects.
Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate will:
- Be a current law student or recent law graduate
- Have a common-law legal background, whether through education, professional experience, or substantial exposure to a common-law jurisdiction.
- Have English proficiency at C1 level or above, with strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ideally have previous venture capital experience or meaningful exposure to VC transactions, startup financing, or the startup ecosystem.
- Ideally have previous paralegal, legal assistant, or comparable legal-support experience.
- Be highly organized, detail-oriented, reliable, and comfortable taking ownership of administrative tasks.
- Have an interest in corporate and commercial law, venture capital, startups, regulatory compliance, and cross-border matters.
- Be comfortable working independently in a fully remote environment.
- Be capable of handling confidential and commercially sensitive information with appropriate discretion.
- Be comfortable communicating professionally with clients and other external stakeholders.
- Have strong Microsoft Office and/or Google Workspace skills and be comfortable learning new legal research and productivity tools.
What the Role Offers
This is a fully remote, part-time engagement offering practical exposure to corporate, venture capital, regulatory, and cross-border matters.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop practical experience supporting legal and business matters, including exposure to venture capital transactions, founders and investors, corporate documentation, regulatory questions, and client-facing work.